Timber Ridge Craftsmen Inc

Home Design ...

Wise, organic home desing starts with a thorough understanindg of your goals. Mutual rapport and trust are built first. These make the strongest foundation of every good home. In confidence, together, we work to capture those essential elements that shape your expectations of form. From sheltering roof planes to welcoming hearth placement.
From natural material textures to favored color palettes. Radiating from the heart of your home outward, along paths of business and leisure, we lend shape to your vision.

This discovery is both practical, and intuitive. Memories of gatherings shape spaces for future. Sights, sounds, and textures of travels past, or dreamt of, influence both theme and nuance. Ideas, impressions, and vision all illuminate what your home becomes.

On-Site Consulting

Organic design necessarily involves your home‘s site.

The uniqueness of the site lends itself to the myriad interwoven solutions that become your home. Equally important, your home becomes an enduring participant in the native life there.

Contour, terrain, views, and vantage points. Native features, compass bearings, and solar orientation, public to private progression, the melding of indoor & outdoor rooms. These, and similar, suggest a satisfying compliment to nature. They help enform a special creation.

Inspiration for the Masters

Advancing your design goals, we explore together preferences in architectural styles. Fortunately, there is a treasure-trove of rich, historical precedent to draw upon for inspiration.

Craftsman, Arts and Crafts, Asian-inspired, Prairie, Mountain Lodge, Timber Frame, New England Coastal and Shingle Style. Cozy, or Ultimate “California”, Bungalow, Mission, and Shaker.

The eloquence, and evolution, of masters such as Greene & Greene (Charles S. Green & Henry Green), Frank Lloyd Wright, and Gustav Stickley remain instructive and relevant today.

Design Development

Following personal meetings, we harmonize your goals, your preferences, with the natural elements present on your site.

We develop a preliminary design study, which explores specific shapes, dimensions, and spatial relationships that accommodate both indoor and outdoor spaces.

We employ the powerful Chief Architect suite of software design tools to bring 2D floorplans to three-dimensional color and life. www.chiefarchitect.com/

Advanced iterations, building details, and construction documents follow from there.