Custom home building on the Eastside — one team from first sketch to final walkthrough

A new home is a two-year relationship, not a transaction

Most people who call us about a custom home have already learned the hard part: the building is the easy half. The hard half is the eighteen months of decisions, drawings, revisions, inspections and invoices that come before anyone hangs a door. That is the part we run for you.

We work as your single point of contact from the day you own the lot. We coordinate with your architect or bring one in, take the drawings through the city, run the site, schedule and supervise every trade, and hand you a home with a punch list already closed out. You do not chase a designer, a permit expediter and a builder who each blame the other two.

What we build

• Infill and tear-down rebuilds on established Eastside lots, where setbacks, tree retention and neighbor impact drive the whole design.
• View and slope properties that need geotechnical work, retaining walls and engineered foundations before anything goes vertical.
• Family homes on flat lots where the win is a smart floor plan, real storage and finishes that still look right in fifteen years.
• Homes with an attached or detached ADU planned in from day one, so the rental unit is not an awkward retrofit later.

Site work is where budgets are won or lost

In this part of Washington, the ground decides a lot. Wet winters, clay soils, slopes and tree-retention rules mean that drainage, grading and foundation engineering deserve real money and real attention up front. We would rather spend an extra week on the geotech report and the storm-water plan than discover the problem after the slab is poured. Every home we build gets a moisture strategy that assumes eight months of rain a year, because that is what it gets.

Energy code, and why it matters to your bill

New homes in Washington are built to one of the strictest energy codes in the country. That means a tight envelope, careful air sealing, high-performance windows, balanced ventilation and, increasingly, heat pumps instead of gas furnaces. We treat those requirements as a design input from the first meeting rather than a box to check at inspection — a house that is detailed properly is quieter, drier and cheaper to run for as long as you own it.

How the money is structured

You get a written scope and an itemized estimate before we start, an allowance schedule for the selections you have not made yet, and a draw schedule tied to real milestones. Change orders are written, priced and signed before the work happens — never discovered on the final invoice. If you are financing through a construction loan, we work directly with your lender's inspector on each draw.