Local coverage

Project conversations across West Oakland County.

Coverage depends on independent provider availability. Each page below explains useful housing and site context for that community.

Farmington

Founded in 1824 around an original village core, Farmington's older, tree-shaded lots call for careful footing placement around mature root systems.

Explosive growth since the 1977 opening of Twelve Oaks Mall means a broad mix of subdivision ages and yard sizes to plan around.

A small city built around the former Ford assembly plant, with modest mid-century lots sized for practical, straightforward deck footprints.

A lake-named city where waterfront setbacks, shoreline access, and lake-adjacent grading shape most outdoor-living projects.

Roughly two dozen named lakes make lake-view and multi-level decks the norm rather than the exception here.

Postwar ranch and split-level neighborhoods built up alongside the city's corporate-office boom bring their own ledger and siding considerations.

Large wooded estate lots from the city's early-1900s Detroit-estate era support larger, multi-level outdoor-living footprints.

Known as "The Lakes Area," Commerce Township mixes older lake-cottage lots with newer construction around a dozen-plus named lakes.