Working With Architects

How builders and architects actually work together, and what changes when the builder joins before the drawings are finished. For homeowners choosing a team and architects choosing a builder.

Interior living space: a linear gas fireplace set in a white plaster surround below an abstract painting, and beyond it a floating stair of oak treads on blackened steel stringers with slender vertical balusters. Three log-round side tables stand on a black-and-white geometric rug between a grey sofa and a cord-woven lounge chair.

Pre-Construction

Design-Build vs. Architect-Led: Choosing in Boulder

Alex Molkentin

6 min

A gable roof sheathed in blue pro clima SOLITEX ADHERO 3000 weather barrier fills the foreground of a hillside build site, with ponderosa pines, a stone spoil pile, a contractor van and a partly framed second structure behind, and the snow-covered Front Range including Longs Peak on the horizon.

Working With Architects

How to Choose an Architect for Your Boulder Custom Home

Alex Molkentin

6 min

A bedroom with pale concrete-block walls and a dark stained walnut plank ceiling. Two black-framed windows look into dense evergreen planting; a bed with a brown coverlet sits beside a built-in bookcase, with an upholstered armchair and a timber chest against the far wall above oak flooring.

Working With Architects

Why Residential Construction So Often Goes Wrong

Alex Molkentin

3 min

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