What we are passionate about
Serving clients for over a quarter century

Our firm specializes in the design development of custom homes, duplexes and renovations on single building sites. Projects are typically located on Vancouver's North Shore, the Sea to Sky corridor, and the Sunshine Coast of BC. Drawings are prepared using state of the art CAD technology. Our proccess is professional, uniquely different, and fun for everyone involved.
Why choose us?
- Over 25 Years of Experience
- Registered & Certified
- High performance design to Step Code 5
- Local Zoning Competent
- Part 9 BCBC Competent
- Repeat Clients
- Satisfied Customers
- Free First Consultation
Services
“The first step in exceeding your customer’s expectations is to know those expectations.” – Roy H. Williams
Custom Home Design
In our twentyfive years of designing houses, Rommel Design Ltd. has gained a solid reputation for functional, as well as sensible design of most all residential design styles. Our primary objective is to keep the building structure as simple as possible, so that you are able to allocate your budget to where you can see, feel, and live it! This is is successfully accomplished through careful listening to you, our client, and translating your wishes and needs into design concepts which exemplify their practical requirements within an imaginative building form. A Rommel designed home is an investment in quality. It will be a true statement of how you live and how you create a home! Many of our custom homes have either been nominated or received the coveted Georgie award over the years, in addition to North & West Vancouver Heritage Design awards.

Addition & Renovation Design
Renovations contribute to a large part of our projects. Several of which, have won heritage design awards in West Vancouver and the City of North Vancouver. We typically require your survey, as well as as-built plans of the existing home to begin the process. Initially, a detailed replica 3d model of your existing home is developed. We then meet to obtain your wishlist of needs and wants. This establishes the architectural program which is then added to the model, before construction drawings can begin.

3D Rendering & Animation
Advancements in architectural software technology have made it possible to extract all required information to build your home from a single building model (BIM). Once this model is complete, and the neccessary details are added, it can be used to generate photographic images and video clips which display your future home in real time before it is built. Inside & out. These images are often easily manipulated to test different exterior finishing options. They have been extremely well received by our clients, especially those who struggle imagining the finished product by merely reviewing two dimensional floor plans & elevations. Examples of these video clips can be viewed on our Youtube channel

Construction Drawings
The Construction drawings for our projects are a graphic, detailed, and written summary of the decisions made during the design process. They become the means by which design decisions are communicated to others including building officials, builders, subtrades and often lenders. A set of construction drawings should be complete, and coordinated. Complete, so that all of the information is included, and a full understanding of the project can be obtained. Coordinated, so that all information can be easily read and correctly interpreted. The drawings are considered complete when all of the information that your builder needs to turn your dream into reality is adequately displayed.

Zoning Analysis
There are many questions to be answered when planning to build your dream home or renovation. This well before you see sketches of floor plans or 3d renderings. Is there enough height to add a play loft over the kid's bedroom? How close can we build to our neighbour? We would like to have our bedroom beside that calming creek which came with the property? Is their enough room for a three car garage? We are often asked to visit the site prior to a purchase, create a zoning report, and try to answer most if not all of these questions.

Projects
"I like my money right where I can see it…my kitchen & ensuite." - Client
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The Designer
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobbs
Jochen E. Rommel,
AScT, Dipl TBorn in Baden-Baden and raised in Gaggenau, on the northern tip of Germany's Black Forest, Joe arrived on the West Coast of British Columbia in his early teens. After graduating with a Diploma in Building Technology from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in 1982, he participated in the early design development of Yaletown. One of Vancouver's old rustic warehouse areas, revived to a much sought after office, residential and restaurant district. As the local economic recession reached its peak in 1985, Joe spent the next four years honing his design skills with firms in Giessen, Germany, and Houston, Texas. Following his return to BC, and after a successful seven year stint with the Pella/Hunt Corporation as Territory Sales Manager, he started Rommel Design which since has evolved into one of Vancouver's most sought after single family residential design firms, having successfully completed hundreds of projects, large and small.
Joe is a member of the Applied Science Technologists & Technicians of British Columbia.
Contact
Let us know how we can be of service;
Locations:
North Vancouver, B.C.
Sechelt, B.C.
Mail:
PO Box 91495
West Vancouver, B.C.
V7V 3P2
Email:
info@rommeldesign.com
Call:
604-913-0103
