Mara Rehn points across the empty high-desert plot outside Tumalo while Elin Haas and her husband look where she points, the Cascades white on the horizon.
At the studio table Thea Almqvist moves one of three basswood models aside while Elin Haas and her husband listen.
In the studio, Jonas Oduya shakes hands with Elin Haas across the oak table, the drawings and the contract between them; her husband smiles beside her.
In hard hats inside the half-built house, Caleb Ortiz points up at the roof while Elin Haas and her husband look up.
At the open oak door of their finished limestone house, Jonas Oduya puts the key in Elin Haas's hand.

01 · Site walk

The number in step three is the number you pay in step five.

Most build overruns are not bad luck. They are a price agreed before the design was resolved enough to price. We do it in the other order, which is slower at the start and cheaper at the end.

  1. At the studio table Thea Almqvist moves one of three basswood models aside while Elin Haas and her husband listen.

    02 · Feasibility

    We read the ground.

    Survey, ground conditions, planning risk, and an honest range. Roughly one in three projects stops here, and should.

  2. In the studio, Jonas Oduya shakes hands with Elin Haas across the oak table, the drawings and the contract between them; her husband smiles beside her.

    03 · Fixed price$1,640,000

    We fix the number.

    Design resolved far enough to price it properly, then a single contract sum. It does not move unless you move it.

  3. In hard hats inside the half-built house, Caleb Ortiz points up at the roof while Elin Haas and her husband look up.

    04 · Build$1,640,000

    We build the drawing.

    Our own site team. Weekly photographs, monthly walk-round, one phone number.

  4. At the open oak door of their finished limestone house, Jonas Oduya puts the key in Elin Haas's hand.

    05 · Handover$1,640,000

    You get the keys.

    Snagging closed before you move in, not after. A year of aftercare that we actually answer.

Five steps, thirteen to twenty-two months.

  1. Mara Rehn points across the empty high-desert plot outside Tumalo while Elin Haas and her husband look where she points, the Cascades white on the horizon.

    Site walk

    Two hours on the land with the architect who would run your job — not a salesperson. We look at access, aspect, drainage, and what the neighbours can see. You get an email the same week with what we think is possible and what is not. No charge, and no follow-up sequence.

    Mara RehnFounder, principal architect

  2. At the studio table Thea Almqvist moves one of three basswood models aside while Elin Haas and her husband listen.

    Feasibility

    Four to six weeks. Topographic survey, trial pits, tree and ecology constraints, a planning risk assessment, and two or three massing options at model scale. It ends with an honest cost range, not a number designed to win the work. Roughly one in three projects stops here — and the ones that stop save a great deal more than the study cost.

    Thea AlmqvistProject architect

  3. In the studio, Jonas Oduya shakes hands with Elin Haas across the oak table, the drawings and the contract between them; her husband smiles beside her.

    Fixed price

    We take the chosen option all the way to technical design before we price it: every junction drawn, every material specified, every subcontractor tendered on the same information. Then one contract sum. It moves only if you change something, and we tell you the cost of the change before you decide, not after.

    Jonas OduyaConstruction director

  4. In hard hats inside the half-built house, Caleb Ortiz points up at the roof while Elin Haas and her husband look up.

    Build

    Our own site team, not a rotating cast of subcontractors. You get a photograph set every Friday, a walk-round on the first Tuesday of the month, and one phone number that belongs to the person actually on site. Variations are logged and priced within five working days.

    Caleb OrtizSite manager

  5. At the open oak door of their finished limestone house, Jonas Oduya puts the key in Elin Haas's hand.

    Handover

    Snagging is closed before you move in. You receive an operating manual for the house, as-built drawings, and warranties collated in one place. We come back at three months and at twelve, whether or not anything is wrong. Most of the time we are fixing a door that has moved with the seasons.

    Jonas OduyaConstruction director

34
Projects completed since 2016
100%
Delivered at the fixed price
3
Stopped at feasibility, last year
12 mo
Aftercare, as standard

On the process

Nadia Kowalski on the plot she did buy, in a green coat, the pines and the Three Sisters behind her.
The feasibility study told us not to buy the second plot. That advice cost us four thousand dollars and saved us most of a year.
Nadia KowalskiClient, 2024
Elin Haas curled up on the sofa in her finished house, smiling at the photographs on her phone, a lamp lit beside her.
Every Friday there were photographs. After eleven months of that you stop worrying, which is the whole point.
Elin HaasRidgeline House, Tumalo

Projects typically begin at $850k. Feasibility studies are $4,500, credited if you build with us.

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