A Terrace Garden


Architects & Custom Designers of Homes Embraced by Livable Gardens

Living in a
"GardenHome"
is like living
a dream come true!

Welcome to Our Home Page Who we are & What we do Only Architects can make affordable 'Dream Homes' come true! A Home embraced by a practical yet beautiful Garden is a 'GardenHome' - Short Overview We'll help you Create a Home that is Better not just Bigger Our partially glass-roofed GardenRooms are meant for everyday living, dining, and entertaining, and perfect for growing indoor plants Our Gardens are places in which to live and enjoy yourself In your private 'RoofGarden' you'll always feel on Top of the World A GeoThermal Heat Pump more than pays for itself by drastically reducing your HVAC and Water Heating bills Let us help you create a Home you won't have to abandon should you ever become disabled in any way A Garden is a series of 'Outdoor Rooms without Ceilings' designed to be lived in and enjoyed. At its most beautiful, 'Landscaping' is still just a picture frame. A beautiful Garden adds to your Quality of Life! Here are the reasons why you should have a Garden rather than just Landscaping Excerpts of Bill Hoppe's upcoming book by the same title. Stay tuned for more chapters! An Example of a GardenHome Concept Design Drawing How we Manage our Projects We want a Close and Viable Relationship capable of Producing the Results you seek! How we will Handle Your Project - Overview What our Hourly Rates are based on Here we'll give you a 'Ball Park' idea of our Costs BEFORE you buy that Property, let us take a good look at it FIRST! Tell us what you think of our site and our 'GardenHome' concept ENJOY Our Biographies and Faces How to get a hold of us

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Our Bottom-line

     Since ALL of our projects will be highly unusual, one-of-a-kind, custom designed and built ones;  since we don't have any standard, "off-the-shelve design products" that can be "tweaked" here and there to fit the needs of almost any prospective client and for which we already have accurate construction cost data at our fingertips, we are afraid that, at the end of the first day of our relationship, we still won't be able to give you anything other than a well educated "guesstimate", based on experience, of the most likely total cost of your "dream" project   Only upon having successfully completed Phase #2, and with an agreed to project design and scope now firmly in hand, will we be able to offer you relatively accurate, project cost estimates and to enter into final, definitive understandings with you regarding our likely fees involving Phases #3 through #5.

     However, one thing that we CAN promise you at this time is this;  when ALL is said and done, when the job is finished and you have taken possession of your "dream"; when ALL the contractors, craftsmen, workmen, and gardeners have left the scene, and when ALL the bills (ours included) have been paid, you will find that out of every one dollar you paid, about 11 to 14 cents went to us and 86 to 89 cents went to those who did the work and supplied the materials.  (Note:  As a rule, the bigger the project, the smaller our fee on a percentage to overall cost basis)!  

     Another way of looking at these cost figures is that our fees will, most likely, have amounted to roughly $19 per each sq ft of your home's floor space.  If you live in a highly urbanized area with relatively high labor rates  (such as in the Washington, DC- Northern VA - Baltimore, Md area) that means that you probably will have paid about $145 per each sft of your new home's floor space or about what you would have paid for an "off-the-shelf", developer built "house" of comparable size, lay-out, looks, and quality!  Whichever way you prefer to look at the data, we are confident that, by then, you'll agree that, were it not for our services, you would not have gotten the beautiful home you now love and enjoy!

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