Long, cold winters shape every building decision up here, which makes the choice of who draws the plans matter early. Seven of the 17 listings are based in the valley, with offices in town. The other ten are Front Range firms in Boulder, Loveland and Fort Collins that work the valley from the other side of the canyon.
Hire the designer before the builder, and ask both who has actually walked a project through permits up here. A local office saves you a trip down the hill for every site visit. The Front Range firms are good, but every meeting is a drive.
Based in Estes Park
A remodel that lands on budget is what people keep bringing up about this builder, and in a town where materials come up the canyon, that is no small thing. The office is on Big Thompson Avenue, next to Highland Cabinetry, and the work is residential only: custom homes, remodels and general contracting across the Estes Valley and Northern Colorado.
Picking blinds is the job most people bring here, and the help with that choice is what they remember. Design Center of Estes Park carries Hunter Douglas window coverings, and the same team handles flooring, carpet, tile, wood, countertops and full kitchen and bath remodels, with its own craftsmen doing the installation.
A fire tower with a 360-degree view and a built-in basement wine cellar are both on the project list, alongside small spaces done on strict budgets and historic homes given another run. Westover Construction builds custom homes and additions and takes on whole-house renovations and kitchen remodels, working from an office out on Dry Gulch Road, under a mile from the Lake Estes Marina.
Steps from The Mountain Vault on East Elkhorn, Sky Pond Architecture & Engineering keeps architecture and structural engineering in one office. Joe Calvin is the lead architect and Matthew Khachaturian the principal and engineer, and they work with owners, builders, other architects and designers on new construction, remodels, structural drawings, calculations and inspections.
A bathroom with a layout that never made sense is the kind of problem Studio Logan gets called in for. Renovations come up most, bathrooms especially, along with the ideas Colleen Logan brings that owners hadn't thought of and how well she works alongside the contractor.
Church buildings, micro apartments and mountain custom homes all fit inside the practice at Basis Architecture, which writes its name BAS1S and pairs architecture with branding and graphic design. The firm has close to three decades along the Front Range and in Colorado mountain towns, and custom homes have always been part of it, in styles from craftsman to contemporary.
Tucked into a rear suite on Park Lane, a few steps off the Elkhorn and Moraine corner, T. W.
Serves Estes Park from the Front Range
Hardwood is the center of this Loveland flooring company, and dust-free sanding and refinishing is its specialty. Matching new boards and stain to an existing floor, oak especially, is the skill people notice.
Shutters and careful measuring are what this Fort Collins window-covering franchise is known for. The showroom comes to the house: a designer measures, brings samples of blinds, shades, shutters and drapery, and the crew installs quickly.
When a cellular shade in the cabin stops going up, Colorado Blinds & Design can fix it rather than replace it. The Loveland showroom is a Hunter Douglas Gallery dealer and an authorized Hunter Douglas service center, so repairs on blinds, shades and shutters are part of the business, not an afterthought.
From an office on Pearl Street in Boulder, Rodwin Architecture and its building partner Skycastle Construction design and build green custom homes and commercial projects, and Estes Park falls inside their territory. One team handles architecture, interiors, site planning, permitting and construction, which counts for a lot on a mountain lot where the site and the code shape the house.
A kitchen remodel or an addition on a mountain house usually means an architect, a builder and a lot of phone tag between them. Hutch Design Build, based in Fort Collins, puts both under one contract, with architect-led design carried straight through construction.
Bathroom expansions are the jobs that come up most around Green Fox Home, with careful detail work a close second. The company designs and builds across Boulder County: kitchens, baths, basements, decks, gyms, additions and custom carpentry, with more than 25 years behind it.
Cris Maguire grew up around homebuilding and high-end interiors in Vail and spent much of her design career there before taking on clients in Estes Park and along the Front Range. Still Life Interiors is her practice, and she has more than sixteen years of remodels and new builds behind it.
Gaelic for space and opportunity, fänas is the name a deliberately small Boulder firm chose for itself. Partners Dale and Elizabeth Smith spent more than 30 years at other firms before starting their own, and they cap how many projects they take so they can stay responsive.
Decades of Northern Colorado buildings are on Freeman Architects' record, a significant share of what stands in Loveland, Fort Collins and Greeley. The Loveland firm's territory runs from Denver north to Cheyenne and from Estes Park east to the Nebraska line, so this is a Front Range practice that takes mountain jobs.
A steep, odd-shaped lot is where a custom design earns its fee, and John Dengler & Associates draws each house around the lot and the owner's program. The firm is small, based in Fort Collins, and has been designing since 1982 along the Front Range and in mountain towns including Estes Park, Steamboat Springs, Winter Park, Keystone and Durango.
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This category is wider than architects. It also holds interior designers, builders, flooring showrooms and window covering dealers, so read the descriptions before you call. Of the 17, nine are flagged residential and five commercial. Pure architecture in the valley comes from T W Beck Architects, Basis Architecture and Sky Pond Architecture & Engineering, which works from an office on Elkhorn Avenue and adds structural engineering, building code analysis and permit coordination.
If you want design and construction under one contract, look at the design-build firms. Hutch Design Build in Fort Collins and Rodwin Architecture in Boulder both work that way, and Hutch offers a free 30-minute consultation as a first step. In the valley, Westover Construction handles whole-house renovations, kitchen remodels and additions, and Studio Logan produces construction documents that a builder can price from.
Distance matters more here than in town. Every site visit from a Front Range firm is a drive, so ask how many visits the project needs and who covers the travel. Winter can pause exterior work entirely, so ask how a firm schedules around snow and what a realistic start date looks like before you sign a contract.
Yes. T W Beck Architects, Basis Architecture and Sky Pond Architecture & Engineering are based in the valley, and Studio Logan offers residential design consulting. In all, seven of the 17 listings in this category are based here.
Sky Pond Architecture & Engineering lists structural engineering, structural drawings and calculations, and inspections, from an office on Elkhorn Avenue. Van Horn Engineering & Surveying, listed under home inspectors, also offers structural plans. Ask either what the project needs before you book.
It depends on the scope. Studio Logan takes kitchen and bathroom renovations from concept through construction documents, and design-build firms such as Hutch handle design and building under one contract. For a small update, a builder like Westover may be enough. Call and describe the job.
Ten of the 17 listings are Front Range firms, including Rodwin Architecture and Fanas Architecture in Boulder. They list the valley as part of their territory, but ask how site visits are handled and whether travel affects the schedule.
