Why Hire Us lists reasons you may want to consider hiring HOME ARCHITECTS ® to design your custom mountain home.
One of the most important things to keep in mind:
a MOUNTAIN house is not like a house anywhere else.
Because mountains have special topography (slope of the land), unique subterranean features (like bedrock at particular distances under the ground), amount of rainfall (for instance: the southern tip of the Appalachian mountain chain is an alpine rain forest and receives 120 to 200 inches of rain a year and also has some snow in the winter).
So: if you attempt to have Architects (or heaven forbid, unlicensed “designers”) from other places, like Florida, Texas, Georgia, the MidWest or other non-mountain places, they are not going to be familiar with the circumstances in mountainous regions. And there could be costly and dangerous mistakes. These days, a new mountain home is going to cost over a million dollars, so you want to be sure your Architect specializes in mountain architecture.
HOME ARCHITECTS ® is based in the mountains and design projects all over the world, with a main focus in the USA.
REASONS TO HIRE HOME ARCHITECTS ® TO DESIGN YOUR CUSTOM MOUNTAIN HOUSE:
— MOST EXPERIENCED Architect for mountain houses.
— BEST DESIGNS.
Winner of 11 design awards in the last 7 years for mountain houses.
— BEST RESULTS.
–ENERGY FREE (or nearly) TECHNOLOGY HOUSE DESIGNS (see photo above and the following links):
https://www.homearchitects.com/solar-power
Note: the Senior Staff Architect of this company only pays around $5/month for his electricity due to implementing the above technology design systems. This is real. His wife has a plug-in hybrid SUV and it runs mainly on sunshine. The future is here with HOME ARCHITECTS ®.
— HIGH QUALITY DESIGNS FOR HIGH QUALITY CONSTRUCTION.
We design for the long term. So your special house will last a very long time, assuming the Contractor builds in accordance with our documents.
–DETAILED, QUALITY CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS.
We create detailed construction documents so your Contractor knows how to build it right to last. High quality documents = high quality house.
–COST CONTROL. MORE ACCURATE QUOTES FROM CONTRACTORS.
Your licensed General Contractor is the entity in charge of the construction costs, because he/she is the one billing you for the actual construction. While we as the Architect can’t guarantee the cost of construction, we can and do provide detailed construction documents that allow the Contractor to better estimate the construction costs from Day 1 of the build, which helps you plan for the financial needs of your project, from the beginning, with hopefully few surprises. This is one of the reasons we create detailed sheets of drawings and specifications. So your builder doesn’t have to guess. Our firm does this as a matter of course. Having some other companies or individuals who do not do a detailed job will result in your builder and you not understanding the likely construction costs and you not being prepared to deal with the real costs of your project. Do we charge for our detailed documents? Of course. But in the long run, you and your Contractor will be better informed of the economics of the job, which is a valuable piece of information to have.
–LICENSED REAL ARCHITECT.
That’s right. A licensed Architect designs and manages your project. Not a draftsman. Not a “designer.” A real Architect with 42 years experience, and with a Masters of Architecture degree from a major university.