our company values

Human-Centered

Everyone has a seat at the design table for our projects. We include your whole family as well as architect, engineer, and subcontractors as needed. Healthy, natural, and made with love creates lovely results.

Environmental Focus

Every decision we make relates to protecting our environment, our earth. Together we’ll discuss your options and optimize the project for your green goals.

Precision Management

We complete our projects on time and on budget. Structure and building systems function as designed and trouble-free.

OUR TEAM

We have established extraordinary relationships with artisans, craftspeople, architects and engineers who are the best in their field. We’re very proud of our team and you will enjoy seeing their work. Every team member is vaccinated; we observe Covid protocols as needed.

“Green renovations require creativity, expertise, and dedication to find the right mix for the particular home and home owners. Polly has worked on or ahead of schedule to get us the information we need to plan our project, finding experts to help us when needed and talking with County officials to make sure we are following appropriate regulations. Polly talks about budget early and often. She has also provided many terrific suggestions to lower the cost of the project (or future heating/cooling costs) while building in a sustainable way. We truly believe the time we have spent planning the project will make our home more energy efficient, more sustainably built, and more comfortable to live in.

We hired Polly because of her expertise in green renovations, her project management skills and her access to high-quality subcontractors, but she sold us when she said that this project should be a fun experience for our whole family—and so far, it has been!” Susan and Chris, Carroll County.

Human-Centered

  • IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU

    We are not creating a showplace for our talent. We are creating a space where your hopes and dreams will flourish and a refuge from the stresses which affect us all.

  • AND YOUR KIDS

    A residential construction project is an even bigger deal to kids than it is to you. We conduct kids workshops during the project using a game to teach how to read drawings, a chart showing what is going to happen, and a chance to do some safe but fun physical part of the construction with our carpenters.

  • AND A PEAK EXPERIENCE

    Don’t you deserve to feel wonderful and to grow during a major construction project as well as when it’s done? A peak experience can include difficulties but it’s worthwhile and exciting. You should feel important, because you are, cared for, pampered, and served well.

 

FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENT

  • WE’RE SERIOUS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

    We think about the environmental impact of everything we do. You can always ask us for explanations; we are not greenwashing. We’ll discuss your values and incorporate them into the project in addition to our own. We provide an exceptional product without exceptional cost or risk.

  • WE DO EXTENSIVE RESEARCH AND TESTING

    Successful innovation requires care and testing. We offer our clients products and methods which have been carefully tested. We have a laboratory building where we can make sure a new idea works as designed.

  • BEAUTIFUL, UNIQUE, AFFORDABLE

    Customizing our design and the products we use to you and your site produces spaces, surfaces, colors and materials you will love and see nowhere else. We will bring you interesting one-of-a-kind opportunities, often unexpected and delightful.

 

Precision Management

  • TEAM OF SPECIALISTS

    We produce outstanding quality at reasonable prices because of the way our work is organized. We use a team of specialists, each of whom carries out the task he or she does best. Our people love their work and appreciate that they’re well-matched to their assignments.

  • SCHEDULING

    We use critical path analysis to schedule our work. Our people know we’ll be ready for them when we said we would be, and we expect the same from them. Subcontractors know we will be considerate of their needs; they respond with on-time availability so our projects run smoothly.

  • PANDEMIC AND SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES

    Being green means we have research, networking, and problem-solving capabilities beyond the ordinary. We can locate hard-to-find materials, get them to the site, and negotiate reasonable costs because that’s business as usual for an innovative firm. We’re not perfect and neither is the world we live in, but most of the time, you should feel that everything with your project is just fine.