Services & process
Single-family homes and cabins for clients who want a building specific to a place, not a plan ordered from a magazine.
Typical fee: 10 to 14% of construction cost
Scope of services
Whole-house renovations, additions, and gut remodels of older Twin Cities homes, with particular attention to the parts of the house that already work.
Typical fee: 12 to 16% of construction cost
Scope of services
Old warehouses, schoolhouses, mills, and grain elevators. Buildings that should not be torn down, brought to a second useful life.
Typical fee: Project-based, typically $180k to $1.2M
Scope of services
Libraries, museums, community spaces, and schools, designed to last and to belong to the place they are built in.
Typical fee: 8 to 12% of construction cost
Scope of services
How a project moves
01
Two to four weeks. We walk the site in every season we can, interview the client family or stakeholders, and write a programming document that becomes the basis of the work.
02
Four to eight weeks. Two or three schemes, presented in hand drawings and physical study models. We meet weekly until we have one.
03
Eight to twelve weeks. The chosen scheme is refined to every wall section, every window, every material decision. Engineers and consultants are coordinated in this phase.
04
Ten to sixteen weeks. Full permit drawings and specifications. We help select the builder and negotiate the contract.
05
Six to eighteen months on site, depending on scope. We are on site weekly through the duration, available daily by phone and email.