If you're at that stage of building the house, why not consider building a fish room? Put all the noise and smells and messiness of the sump in a separate room (basement even). You could have a bigger sump and much more room to work in it than anything you could do under a stand. It's something that I had considered doing, but decided the renovations involved would be a bit overboard for my first tank (which is still in it's early stages).
Otherwise, you can check out my build thread if you haven't already for some ideas on a 4 foot tank, sump in stand setup. There should be a link to it in my signature line
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