ABOUT
We ask you to consider the humans and resources involved in this work.
Beliefs & philosophy
This company is based on the belief that the only way forward is asking questions and listening. It is built on relationships with other humans. It is built on the desire to have transparency and trust in the building industry. It is built on the knowledge that existing structures have value. It is built on the idea that an architecture and construction business can be and must be feminist.
As a business, we ask for your consideration. We ask for you to consider the humans and resources needed to complete your building project. We ask you to consider the labor of building. We ask you to consider waste and ways to limit it. And together we can ask how to repurpose our spaces to better meet the needs of our current lives.
We are humans
Katherine Fontaine
Design
Historic design and construction management experience gathered from 15 years of coordinating a mixture of residential and large historic restoration projects in Oregon, Washington and California including Stanford’s Green Library, The Legion of Honor, The Noble Chapel in Colma and numerous houses in the Bay Area.
ARCHITECTURE LICENSE NO. CA34740
Charlie Vaughan
Build
Building and construction management experience gathered from coordinating large commercial projects throughout California for the past 15 years. Hands-on building experience and a deep understanding of the built environment used to manage our onsite crews and provide constructability reviews for every project, an integral component in both the design and construction process.
How we design + build together
About 5 years ago we showed up at the same small film event and started chatting. We quickly realized that we both worked in architecture and construction and had both recently started our own businesses. And specifically the project I had just started designing was directly across the street from where Charlie lived. It was pretty much decided that night to work on that first dream house together. And we haven’t stopped working together since.
Both of us had just come off of years working for much larger contractors in California and felt a desire to take that experience and build something from the ground up with transparency and sustainability at the core. With both architectural and construction licenses and years of experience in California, together we lead a team that can take your project from an initial design through to a built finished project. We bring the experience of managing multi-million dollars budgets to a small nimble construction company that can provide a thorough and efficient project with a skilled labor force, management team and committed team of subcontractors.
And most importantly, we are in the continued pursuit of changing the contractor stereotype, being good communicators, having transparency around budget and schedule and remembering to get in the ocean occasionally so we don’t lose our minds completely.
