Orientation is a decision you only make once.
Before a line is drawn we spend a day on the land. Where the grade falls, where the water goes in August, which windows take the afternoon in July, and what the parcel next door is still allowed to become. A house that ignores any of it will fight its owner for thirty years.
Most of our houses arrive with an architect already engaged, and that is the easier way to work. We would rather join a drawing set early and price it as it develops than receive a finished one and tell you what it costs.
A house should sit down, not sit on.
Cut and fill are among the cheapest decisions on a project and the most permanent. We set floor levels against the existing grade before the plan is fixed, so the house meets the ground rather than a retaining wall meeting the house.
Materials that age without being maintained.
Board-formed concrete, unfinished timber, stone quarried near the site where that is possible. Anything that needs re-coating every third year is a decision the owner pays for twice.
Tell us about the land.
If you have a site — or you are still looking — the earlier we see it, the more we can do with it.
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