How does Roberth Jordan approach custom home design at Ceci Bates?

Roberth Jordan begins with an expansive vision, exploring what a site could accommodate before refining the design to meet client needs at Ceci Bates Custom Homes.

What makes Ceci Bates Custom Homes' design process unique?

Ceci Bates Custom Homes emphasizes starting from a position of possibility, refining expansive initial designs to create homes that embody the clients' true priorities.

Why is starting with a broad vision important in home design?

Starting with a broad vision allows for exploring a site's full potential, ensuring the final design retains its ambitious essence and aligns with client needs.

Notes From Our Journey

From twenty-six years of building custom homes on Lake Texoma, here we share about our process and what we've learned about design, materials, engineering, and the decisions that shape a home built to last for generations — the questions clients ask us most often, and the answers we give around the table in our design center.

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Roberth Jordan’s Expansive Approach to Custom Home Design

Roberth Jordan’s Expansive Approach to Custom Home Design

Ceci Bates

October 30, 2026

In the world of custom home design, it is common to begin with a framework of limitations. Budget constraints are established, measurements of the lot are taken, and requirements are outlined. From these parameters, architects are tasked with crafting a home that fits snugly within pre-defined boundaries. Often, the result is a home that satisfies the requirements but rarely surprises or delights.

Roberth Jordan, the architect at Ceci Bates Custom Homes, takes an entirely different approach. For Roberth, a project’s potential is as significant as its constraints. He starts each design with a broad vision, courageously exploring what could be, rather than what must be. This expansive thinking isn’t about ignoring budget and practical considerations; rather, it allows the design to reach a place of true potential before being refined to its essential core.

Roberth is known for creating ambitious sketches that challenge and redefine the preconceived limits of a lot. These initial concepts explore the full extent of what the site could accommodate—what the home might feel like basking in ideal sunlight, how its spaces could flow if given the freedom to expand, and what unique features might be enjoyed if only imagined from a place of possibility.

As the design process unfolds, ambitions are scaled thoughtfully. Ideas are carefully weighed, priorities assessed, and each decision made with clarity of purpose. What remains in the final design is not a compromise, but rather the distilled essence of what truly matters to the client. The end result is a home that retains the inspired vision it began with, eschewing the predictability of constraint-driven designs.

A custom home that is truly worth building is one that starts as an exploration into possibility and ends with a disciplined realization of that vision. At Ceci Bates, we invite you to explore this thoughtful approach to design by visiting cecibates.com and see how we can turn possibilities into enduring homes.”