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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Let us Help you Pick
the Property that Best Fits your Needs ...

     Choosing the "right" property from amongst the several you are considering to buy right now,  is not as "simple and easy" a task as some folks would have you believe!   Apart from its obvious importance –make the wrong choice and you'll have to live with the financial and emotional consequences, like it or not, for quite some time to come–that task, which routinely involves upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars, is an extremely complex and time consuming one especially for a "layman" who already has his/her hands full dealing with a flood of other, equally complex and daunting, "relocation" problems!

     To help you make the choice that is right for YOU, we hereby offer to do the following;

First:  We will meet with you at your home for as many hours as it may take to explore, discuss, and help you "nail down" your needs, desires and "dreams" (to prepare yourself for all this, visit our "Home Design" and "Garden Design" questionnaires) and your ability and willingness to afford them financially!  

Second:  We will physically visit each of the sites you are "looking at" for as long as it may take us thoroughly and carefully to evaluate it in terms of the following criteria;

  • the appropriateness and the quality of its immediate surroundings (not only will those surroundings be something you'll have to look at and live with for an undetermined number of years, they will also have either a positive or a negative impact, visual or otherwise, on the new property you are trying to create there;
  • the appropriateness and the physical condition of its existing structure(s), if any;
  • the characteristics of the loti.e. its elevations, grading & drainage, existing tree and shrub cover, its "view sheds", and its "rights of way", if any, etc.;
  • the potential impact of local government "Planning & Zoning" ordinances and regulations, building codes, set-backs, and community (Home Owners Association) imposed design limitations and/or restrictions, if any, to which the property under consideration may be subject;
  • and – most importantly – the probable costs involved with its conversion, vis-à-vis your financial resources, needs, desires, and dreams.

Third:  We will meet with you again, either on-site or at your home, to discuss each property in detail, to go over its plusses and minuses, and to let you know which one WE would pick if we were in your shoes and why!   By the way, if NONE of the properties under consideration sufficiently meets, in our unbiased and professional opinion, the agreed upon criteria, you can rest assured we'll inform you of that also!

     For this service we will charge you a flat fee of $1,650 to evaluate the first two properties, and an added $500 for each additional property in addition to reasonable costs and expenses for transportation and lodgings, if any, beyond a 60 mile radius from Washington, DC.  Considering that the job (ex travel time) might take us a minimum of 24 man-hours to accomplish and that its outcome will be of crucial importance to you, we are sure that you will find that $1,650, flat fee to be more than reasonable, indeed!

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