Two people who got frustrated by the same thing from opposite ends.
Dale framed houses in central Oregon for about twenty years before he ever held his own licence — two production builders and one custom shop out of Redmond. The production work paid. It also meant framing houses he knew would leak in ten years, and nobody upstream wanted to hear about it.
Erin finished her architecture degree in 2007 and came back here. She would draw something good and watch a builder value-engineer the life out of it. He would get a set of plans that had never been near a job site.
By 2009 they had both had enough of the handoff, so they stopped handing off. That is the whole origin story, and it is still the whole business model.
Eight people, and what each of them touches
Dale, Erin, two lead carpenters, four carpenters, and Marisol Vance running the office and the schedule. Ray Ordoñez has led crews here since 2011.
We self-perform framing, the entire exterior envelope, timber and finish carpentry. Those are the trades where a bad day shows up forever, so we do not hand them to whoever is available that month. Concrete, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, drywall and tile go to subcontractors we have used for a decade — the same concrete crew since 2013.
How we work
Four things we will not trade away.
One contract, one number
Design and construction under the same roof, so there is nobody to point at. When the price moves you hear it from the person who moved it.
You call us, not an account manager
There are two founders and both numbers are real. The thing clients mention most at the end is simply that the phone got picked up.
The site decides first
Fall, rock, wind, water, and where the February sun lands. We design after we have stood on it, not before.
Six houses is the ceiling
We turned down two projects last year. If Dale cannot be on your job most weeks, we are not the right shop for it.
Where we build
Bend, Tumalo, Sisters and Sunriver — and we will look at Redmond or Powell Butte if the site is interesting. We do not go over the pass and we do not go to the coast.
High desert is its own animal. Sixty degrees of swing in a single June day, ground snow load running forty to sixty pounds depending where you sit, and January sun low enough to cook a south-facing room if your overhang math is lazy. Then the wildfire piece, which changed a great deal after 2020. We build here because we know here.
Come stand on the land with us.
The first walk is free and usually the most useful hour of the project.
Start a build