Relic / AboutEst. 2026

The thousand-year home

00 / Overview

Designing a custom home usually takes months of meetings before you have anything you can price or build — then years of running five contracts yourself. Relic does the design online in one session, then builds it as one company: Relic designs it, Relic contracts it, Relic manages it, and the network builds it.

How a Relic home is built to last →

01 / Relic

What Relic does

You enter a real street address. Relic builds a single dimensional model of a home for that lot and generates the plans, elevations, material quantities, a preliminary cost estimate, and a packet a builder can work from — in minutes, free. When you're ready, Relic contracts the project with you and manages the architect, engineers, builder, trades and suppliers who build it — one company, one contract, one project experience.

02 / Relic

Every number is sourced

One dimensional model drives every drawing, quantity, and cost, so the documents never contradict each other. Each figure shows where it came from, the date it was retrieved, and how confident we are in it. Anything we have not verified is clearly labeled a concept rather than fact. Builders, lenders, and buyers can trust the design because they can check the work behind it.

03 / Relic

Furnishing the home

A house is the largest purchase most people make, and the cost does not stop at the structure. Relic also sells what goes inside: furniture in walnut, leather, and metal; original artwork by X9; and satin-stainless architectural hardware. We can also refer a builder and help coordinate a professional review of the design.

Garden · Terrace · Balcony

Outdoor rooms as still as the house

Hyper-minimal rock gardens in the same board-formed concrete idiom — raked gravel, a single boulder, a local tree — extended up to the occupied roof terrace and a cantilevered balcony. Nothing more.

Back garden — dry rock garden
Back garden — dry rock garden
Side yard — gravel garden
Side yard — gravel garden
Back garden — reflecting court
Back garden — reflecting court
Back garden — zen court
Back garden — zen court
Side yard — passage garden
Side yard — passage garden
Roof terrace — occupied deck
Roof terrace — occupied deck
Roof terrace — evening
Roof terrace — evening
Roof terrace — garden
Roof terrace — garden
Cantilevered balcony
Cantilevered balcony
Balcony — the view
Balcony — the view

Concept visualization · illustrative only

Index / Attach

04 / Giving

15% of our profits go to ending homelessness

Relic gives 15% of its profits to Community Solutions and its Built for Zero program, which uses real-time, by-name data to make homelessness rare and brief. More than fifteen communities have reached functional zero for a population through this work, and the program won a $100 million MacArthur Foundation grant.

15%

of profits, donated

15+

communities at functional zero

$100M

MacArthur award, Built for Zero

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Relic · The thousand-year home