AADMIXX has been in the high end modern home market for years. Long enough to know it’s time to rethink what a refined version of the market might look like, and more importantly to who these homes can be built for. It’s time to expand that audience and Entrees represents a step in the right direction. We want to bring a HIGHER STANDARD of DESIGN to wider demographic of new home buyers. 

This is your big moment.

You’re planning to build your new house and we’re here for it. We’re here for you and we believe you should be privy to provocative architecture, custom design options, meaningful details, and the genuine excitement that comes with owning a brand new home in today’s modern market. Most importantly, you should be able to achieve all of the above without having to hyperextend your budget to get it done. 

That’s where we come in. 

Entrees homes are designed to combine high level architectural details with cost conscious building practices, allowing you to enter the buyer’s game at a realistic price point. To put it simply, Entrees offers all of the perks of hiring a modern architect to design your home, we’re just reducing your cost.

But why are architects so expensive to begin with & how are we bypassing that cost?

Great question.

First let’s discuss why hiring an architect is usually so much more intimate and advantageous than simply paying a developer to build you a home. 

For starters, to earn their masters degree architects must go to graduate school to study design down to its core fundamentals. From philosophies and schematics to life safety codes and standard design guidelines, architects see the process differently in all the best ways & that’s why they; dare we say, appropriately; command their fees. It’s a lot of work. To add perspective, an architect will charge a fee anywhere from 8%-12% of the construction cost for a new home design depending on the level of details and interior design you might want them to include. The best residential designers in opinion, are those who design everything. They prefer to take it from paper to dirt and from dirt to doorknobs. All of it. And so if you do that math and assume say a respectable $750,000 entry level price point, that clocks the architect’s fees in at anywhere from $60K-$90K. That’s a substantial chunk of the budget for most people in the market to build a home, especially one that’s still well under a million dollars. With that knowledge it’s easy to see why most people might be swayed to bypass real architectural design and succumb uninspired, albeit more affordable, builder-grade design standards. 

In our studio we’ve come to call that look, “Developer Modern”.  

It’s unfortunate but it’s the state of the industry. The details get overlooked and buyers seeking to save money, while at the same time still finding a few extra square feet, are increasingly willing to settle for subpar design details.

“The details aren’t the details. They make the design.” 

That’s a famous and incredibly meaningful quote from Charles Eames, one of the most respected architects and designers of the modern era, and we don’t just believe in this statement, we live by it.