How We Work: Our Process
Every project is unique, but good design and building take time. Even simple builds usually take about a year from first sketches to completion, so starting the conversation early helps.
Here’s what working with Eberhaus typically looks like:
Phase 1: Pre-Design
We research your site, its climate, regulations, and the surrounding context while getting to know you and your goals. We may give you “homework” to clarify your vision and needs, ensuring your project reflects your values while functioning well.
Phase 2: Schematic Design
This is the fun part: testing ideas and exploring layouts, light, and flow. We sketch plans and study massing so you can see how your project might feel and function. This phase ends with a clear design direction.
Phase 3: Design Development
We refine the layout, finalize dimensions, and select key materials. We bring in engineers and consultants as needed to ensure feasibility and performance, aligning the design with your goals and budget.
Phase 4: Construction Documents
We translate the design into precise construction drawings your contractor can build from, detailing materials, fixtures, finishes, and how all components fit together.
Phase 5: Permitting
We prepare and submit all necessary documents to obtain permits, addressing any city or agency comments until your project is approved and ready to build.
Phase 6: Bidding & Budget Alignment
We review contractor bids with you, clarify scope, and help protect your budget while preserving design intent. Our builder’s perspective helps identify padded costs and potential efficiencies.
Phase 7: Construction Oversight
We stay involved during construction, visiting the site to answer questions, address issues, and ensure your design is executed well. We help manage punch lists and wrap-up details so your project is completed to your expectations.
We’re happy to talk early—even if you’re a year or more from breaking ground—to help clarify your goals and map out next steps.
We Are a me.
I’m Jared Eberhardt, the designer and builder behind Eberhaus. Based in Los Angeles, I scale projects up with the right team when needed, but at the core, it’s a hands-on, design-led build practice.
Before building homes, I spent years as a creative director for Burton Snowboards and directed commercials represented worldwide by Partizan Pictures, leading crews of 50+ to bring complex visions to life. Through all of it, I was quietly studying architecture everywhere I traveled, building a photo library of spaces and materials that moved me long before the internet made it easy.
Building feels like what I should have been doing all along. It brings together design vision, problem-solving, and hands-on craft into something tangible, lasting, and real.
I cut my teeth rehabbing the Krisel’s Glass Cabin sneaking in time between directing gigs, to do research so I could properly remodel it keeping in mind midcentury modern guardrails. That project became the incubator for my approach to thoughtful, efficient design. Then I spent the Pandemic building Hoot Owl Ranch in the high desert, designing it, getting it engineered and permitted, and building nearly every detail by hand. It taught me that good design is about listening—to clients, to the land, and to the climate—and creating spaces that support real life while respecting budgets and context.
Now, I’m focused on designing and building Homes, ADUs, Small lot homes, and Re-Making Homes to address housing challenges with practical, beautiful spaces that people can actually live in.
If you’re looking to create a home, addition, or retreat that is thoughtful, efficient, and built with care, I’d love to help.
