AADMIXX has been in the high end home market for years. Long enough to know it’s time to rethink what a refined version of the market might look like & more importantly to who these homes can be built for. It’s time to expand that audience & 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 & we’re here for it! We’re here for you & we believe you should be privy to provocative architecture, custom design options, refined details, & 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 market at a realistic price point. To put it simply, Entrees offer all of the design perks of hiring a modern architect to design your home, we’re just introducing an approach that greatly reduces 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 & 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 & schematics to life safety codes & 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 our humblest of steadfast opinions, are those who design everything. The take it from paper to dirt & from dirt to doorknobs. All of it. And so if you do that math & 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 & succumb uninspired, albeit more affordable, builder-grade design standard. 

Around here we’ve come to call that look, “Developer Modern”.  

It’s unfortunate but it’s the state of the market. The details get overlooked & 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 & incredibly meaningful quote from Charles Eames, one of the most respected architects & designers of the modern era & we don’t just believe in this statement, we live by it.