Shoreline Designs
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Shoreline Designs

For homeowners

See your dock before you build it.

Independent CAD plans and photorealistic renderings — not tied to any builder, so you can compare bids on identical drawings.

Covered boathouse with lounge deck and boat lift at sunset

Why independent drawings

Whose dock is it?

Most dock companies will draw your dock too — sometimes free, sometimes as an upcharge you don’t see coming. Either way, that isn’t the same as a design that works for you.

  • A builder's design sells their build

    Free or paid, a drawing that comes from the company quoting the job is a sales tool first. It locks you into one bid.

  • Identical drawings make bids comparable

    When every builder quotes the same set, the difference between their numbers is the difference between them — not between three different docks.

  • You own the drawings

    Take them to any builder, or hold them for a year. They're yours once they're delivered.

  • Designed around how you'll use it

    Not around what's fastest to frame. That's the whole reason to have someone independent draw it.

The conversation

What we’ll ask you about.

Before we draw anything, we want to understand how you’ll actually use the water.

  • Morning and evening use
  • Seating and entertaining
  • Boat and lift needs
  • Water access and swimming
  • Appearance from the house and from the water

The deliverable

What you get.

  • Renderings you can show your family
  • Dimensioned drawings your builder can build from
  • A square-footage budget that keeps you under the lake authority's cap

Selected work

Docks we’ve drawn.

All work
Floating lounge dock with sectional seating, fire pit, and covered pier
Floating lounge dock built for entertaining
L-shaped swim dock with railed platform and walkway to shore
L-shaped swim dock with a railed platform
Sundeck dock with jet ski lift and boarding platform
Sundeck with two slips and a jet ski lift

New to this?

Not required, but it changes your leverage. Go to a builder first and you get their free drawing, with their build already baked in. Come to us first and you own the drawings, so you can take the same design to multiple builders and compare bids against each other.

If it's rejected because of something we got wrong, we fix it at no charge. If it's rejected for a reason outside our control, your standard revision terms apply.

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Send us the shoreline.

An address, a rough drawing, and what you want out of the water. You’ll have a fixed price and a delivery date before you commit to anything.

Fixed price
From $725
First drawings
5 business days
Revisions
2 rounds included