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The luxury custom homes we build in Fort Collins and the surrounding areas are carefully designed and crafted from the ground up for their owners. Take a look at photos of our past projects from throughout Northern Colorado to get inspiration – clicking on each home opens a full gallery. Then talk to us about what you’d like to see in your custom home. We’d love to hear your ideas to see how we can work together to bring them to life.
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– Christina Nelson
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Nestled into the side of a mountain in the foothills west of Fort Collins CO, this home gives mountain views a whole new meaning.
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This full remodel began as a mid-century modern California ranch home custom built in Fort Collins in 1960. We gave it modern function and appeal while keeping the mid-century aesthetic.
This full remodel began life as a mid-century modern California ranch home custom built in Fort Collins in 1960. It had great bones, but with no updates over the years, it wasn’t suited for a modern lifestyle.
We evaluated the positive aspects of the original home, then took it down to the studs and expanded the footprint to allow the kitchen to move from a dark corner in the basement to a bright spot in the center of the home. The resulting remodel embraced the aesthetic of mid-century modern with 21st-century must-haves unheard of in the 60s like walk-in closets, large pantry, five-piece master bath, built-in office workstation, and large windows that flood the home with daylight.
The home is mid-century modern in form. We refined the floorplan to work with today’s lifestyle and added warm wood and a timeless color palette. Touches like the custom walnut and steel room divider, exposed wood beams, warm custom walnut cabinetry, and little pops of color make the home warm and inviting while adding interest.
To add curb appeal while keeping the mid-century modern vibe, we mixed it up on the exterior between brushed hemlock CVG (clear vertical grain) siding and stucco accented by modern high-efficiency windows. Around back, three patios plus a deck off the master add multiple outdoor living options and capture the expansive views of the Fort Collins cityscape and beyond to Longs Peak.
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Half our homeowner pair, a former college track athlete and current coach, wanted a place to further his passion. Since pole vaulting facilities are in short supply, he solved the problem by having us build his own: a custom home with custom gym attached.
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Nestled along the bank of the Cache la Poudre River in Old Town Fort Collins, this Colorado mountain modern home with its exterior blend of natural materials – stucco, locally sourced stone, and heavy timbers – feels warm and inviting even from the curb.
The home was designed to be extremely energy efficient, maximizing the use of a roof-mounted photovoltaic system and in-floor radiant heat. Tile floors help to conduct the heat and give the home a consistent warmth in the winter while at the same time functioning to keep it cooler in summer.
The owners love their outdoor living spaces, and this home has plenty. A three-season sunroom with radiant heat under the slate tile floors was a must, providing large windows from which to enjoy the views of the river practically year-round. The upstairs deck features a barrel roof with tongue and groove cedar that frames the view of the river and mountains to the west. Below, the large patio seamlessly transitions from outdoors to in with no steps to get in the way of the flow.
Efficiency carried through to the outdoors through a detailed, waterwise landscape plan. We helped facilitate the design and installation of the xeriscape landscaping that included a cozy firepit for cooler weather and native plantings of all shapes and sizes.
The interior uses smaller spaces in the Not-So-Big-House style that makes the home feel warm and cozy. Focal points on the main floor include the fireplace faced with locally sourced stone and the open stair system with custom railings and treads from local reclaimed urban Siberian elms. Cork wallpaper adds sound and heat insulation while creating a warm aesthetic and visual connection to the outdoors.
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The full remodel on this dated, worn 1960s brick ranch brought it back to its midcentury modern glory with a 21st-century twist.
We stripped the walls to the studs and raised the roof over the kitchen, living room, and dining room, which made the home feel so much bigger and brighter on the inside. The new roof featured glulam beams and a tongue and groove ceiling that ran from the inside out, giving the main living area the quintessential mid-century feel.
At the other end of the home, we reconfigured the bedrooms and bathrooms and added a master retreat off the back. The addition of a third, tandem bay to the back of the garage on the opposite end gave the home a U-shape that perfectly framed the new in-ground pool and patio area.
Since we couldn’t raise the roof in the basement, we expanded the windows and added concrete and wood timber window wells with egress windows to bring in light and the feeling of volume.
Our homeowner had ideas for the bold pops of color and other aesthetic touches both inside and outside the home. Our design team worked with her to incorporate her ideas into the overall plan and bring them to life.
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The owners of this whole home remodel wanted to retire in Colorado. They found a simple, dated mid-century home in Fort Collins that had good bones but needed a new floorplan and finishes. Working with the owners and their architect remotely, we took the interior down to the studs to move the kitchen, open the stairway, and modernize the home.
Floor-to-ceiling high-performance windows and skylights in the covered patio let in light, and upgraded insulation, a new furnace, and an insert in the native stacked-stone fireplace serve to keep the home comfortable and energy efficient.
The homeowners discovered Seattle cabinetmaker Kerf and fell in love with their Baltic birch plywood cabinets accented by brightly colored laminate. Our team spent many hours on the phone with the Kerf designer discussing dimensions and function to make sure the cabinets were perfect. And they are. The cabinet shipping box was made of the same beautiful, detailed plywood as the cabinets. We hated to simply throw it out, so we repurposed it as closet shelving.
To manage airflow from a vent, the cabinet maker cut a design into the toekick to play off the home’s mid-century vibe. When we had to unexpectedly work around an air return vent in a wall to be covered in grain-sequenced walnut, we matched the spacing and rhythm of the toekick and routed it into the wood to give it an intentional appearance.
A whole home remodel doesn’t mean everything is new. The owners wanted to keep the original 1950s peach bathroom fixtures to accent the new hexagonal tile, but the toilet seat was missing the lid. After hours of scouring the internet, our team found what’s possibly the only one in existence to complete the look.
As the newly retired homeowners intended to remain in the home as long as possible, aging-in-place features were important to incorporate. These included wider walkways and doorways and a no-threshold shower with grab bars in the master bath.
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Ten years ago, we opened up the floor plan and remodeled the kitchen of this 1970s ranch. But that project didn’t do much to make the most of the property and capture the amazing lake views. This time around, though, that was our mission.
An addition to the lake side of the house bumped out the living room. The huge windows and vaulted ceilings with rich wood beams and beetle kill tongue-and-grove now give the previously cramped room plenty of volume.
Decks grace both sides of the addition, each with an overhead trellis that extends from the roofline. Party lighting and a custom steel mesh rusted railing system that provides views through to the lake top off the project.
Although the additional square footage wasn’t substantial, it made a huge impact. From the inside, the home seems twice the size as it did before, and now the lake is now perfectly in view.
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This home takes “lakefront” to a whole new level. After constructing a mile-long driveway to reach the building site, we built the home at the tip of a spire that extends to the middle of a lake, creating a lakeview on three sides.
The majority of the home is floor-to-ceiling glass supported by a steel super structure. The glass provides a clear view of the Douglas Fir tongue-and-groove ceiling that extends seamlessly from inside out. This ceiling, supported by a roof structure that is an asymmetric hyperbolic paraboloid – translated to an undulating roof with rolling wall heights – required meticulous detailing to line up the planks on both sides of the glass.
The home is broken into two wings connected by a glass bridge. The main wing includes the main living areas, music room, his and hers offices with built-in slab work areas, and comfortable guest bedrooms. A wraparound deck takes advantage of the lake views and includes an integrated barbecue and planters built into the railing supports.
The second wing houses the master retreat with its own deck, hot tub, and Scandinavian-inspired fireplace. The open concept shower and vanity island keeps the bath open and airy – with only lake birds for neighbors, privacy isn’t a concern.
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This large, multigenerational home built on family-owned property north of Fort Collins allows two generations to live together but retain their own privacy, space, and aesthetic, as well as meet their lifestyle needs.
The wing for the older generation focuses primarily on main floor living. ADA-compliant features such as zero-entry showers and wide doorways and hallways will allow the owners to age gracefully in place in their home for years.
The opposite end of the home is designed for the needs of an active family. A large craft room with built-in cabinets, theater room, library, and game room built to meet the IT needs for the family’s passion for online gaming provide ample opportunity for family activities.
The owners have a large extended family and frequently host reunions, so this home is built for entertaining crowds. A large bunkroom on the younger generation’s side of the home allows cousins to room together close to the games, movies, and activities that kids enjoy while allowing the adults to have their own space. Outdoors, restaurant-quality appliances keep the food coming while the family gathers under the large, covered patio area or around the fire pit.
When it’s time to relax, the glassed-in sauna room features a built-in hot tub, dry sauna, and steam room, plus a changing room to make it easy to get ready for the chosen activity.
This multigenerational living space may be large, but it’s energy efficient. Because the home is built so tight, an energy recovery ventilation (ERV) system is needed to bring in fresh air from the outside, tempering it to match the interior temperature. The solar energy system uses Tesla Powerwall electricity storage to offset energy consumption. In-floor radiant heating throughout keeps the home snug during colder weather, and automated shades raise and lower to block or welcome the sun depending on the time of year.
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A 1980’s era custom home with soaring ceilings in Cheyenne, Wyoming transformed into an exquisite retreat with the architectural detail the homeowners wanted.
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This welcoming home features warm, locally sourced stone that wraps around the exterior, then carries through the front door and accents the main floor of the home. Heavy glulam timber beams both inside and out give the home substance without weighing it down. Once inside, they help draw a visitor’s eye to the large windows that frame mountain views.
The sommelier homeowner had ideas for specific design touches such as the wine dispenser in the kitchen and secret bottle storage in the stairs made to keep expensive bottles secure in a controlled environment. We also added hand-crafted details including handmade tile in the kitchen from the homeowners’ native Ohio, a built-in breakfast nook to accommodate a hungry crowd, and custom cabinetry and furnishings for the owner’s model trains.
Other comforts and conveniences built into this home include the expansive master closet with built-in storage, Japanese soaker tub in the master suite, in-floor radiant heat, library ladder in the butler’s pantry to make reaching the top shelves easy, office with a built-in granite work surface, and an outdoor shower for a convenient rinse-off after a soak in the hot tub.
The homeowners enjoy spending time outside, so outdoor spaces abound. Multiple decks and patios provide comfortable spaces for entertaining or simply relaxing while enjoying the sunset over the mountains.
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The best way to describe the exterior of this home is rustic-farmhouse-meets-prairie-style, a meetup of traditional character and the horizontal lines Frank Lloyd Wright made famous.
The locally sourced stone extends from the outside in through the front door to the entryway, setting the stage for a variety of natural and industrial materials that accent the interior. These include the metal fireplace surround, metal railing surrounding the three-story open stairwell and upstairs catwalk, and metal range hood custom forged by the local craftsmen at Raw Urth.
The home overlooks a golf course, and the home’s three-tiered deck takes advantage of every opportunity to capture a great view. The main floor’s multi-slide door fully opens to the deck to create an easy flow to the outdoors and welcoming landscape.
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This beautiful 1875 home in Louisville, CO had suffered from years of poor remodels and deferred maintenance. It was time to bring it back to its full glory.
We started by taking the home down to the original studs and adding a new, level flooring system, since part of the floor had no foundation and was sitting directly on dirt. On the exterior, we carefully took down the original siding scallops one at a time. We removed nearly 150 years of paint from each one, then reinstalled them.
We also salvaged and reinstalled the original leaded glass windows. The result is a refreshed version of the historic Victorian home on the outside with an updated feel and function on the inside.
The new interior features a three-sided fireplace to add warmth to the living, dining, and kitchen areas all at once. Built-in cabinets throughout the home provide plenty of storage. We also converted the small cellar into a finished basement for additional living space.
Outside, we added a deck off the back of the home with overhead slats that can be adjusted to let the sun in – or keep it out. The new detached two-story garage pulls double duty with studio space upstairs. And, of course, we finished off the home with a traditional white picket fence.
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This home exemplifies modern lines architecturally while the warm, rich colors and materials keep the overall feel warm and cozy.
Colorado has lost a lot of trees to the pine beetle, but because of the wood harvested after their destruction, this home gained a great deal of character. Notice how the tongue-and-groove beetle kill pine ceiling so complements the durable LVT (luxury vinyl tile) on the floor. Other reclaimed woods figure prominently in the waterfall staircase (with a custom built-in desk tucked underneath), barn doors, and wall coverings.
The floor-to-ceiling windows capture the pastoral views from the inside. When it’s time to be outside, the screen porch and enormous overhangs make outdoor Colorado living enjoyable no matter the season or weather. In-floor radiant heat, solar hot water, and Ecowood cabinets help fulfill the owners’ desire to keep the home friendly to the earth.
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A couple whose jobs caused them to constantly relocate were finally ready for their forever home in Northern Colorado. They found a few acres of land with great mountain views, then met with us. We helped them find the right architect for the home they wanted with a warm, rustic Colorado feel.
The home features plenty of local stone, heavy beams, and warm, reclaimed woods featured in custom woodwork: a fireplace mantel that came from a boxcar and durable, reclaimed hickory flooring that can withstand the traffic from the owners’ busy dogs. Walls painted white allow the dark-stained wood shiplap to pop and accentuate its rich character.
The couple loves to entertain, so expansive sliding glass doors open the home completely to the large, covered composite deck that flows down to the large patio below. An accordion window in the kitchen slides open to reveal a sit-up bar on the deck, making it easy to serve guests or pass food in and out.
The kitchen makes entertaining easy as well, with a 60-inch range and custom metal range hood made by local craftsmen at Raw Urth. While the owners opted against upper cabinets to keep the kitchen open, the adjacent butler’s pantry provides plenty of storage.
Other built-in conveniences include a full home automation system that controls lighting, audio, and video; lighted, heated mirrors in the master bath; and a heated garage complete with media system.
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