Building with Shelter
“Master Builder” is an ancient term, the distinction given those builders whose gifts and abilities earned them responsibility for the design, workmanship and realization of unique structures. Today, the process that consolidates authority for all aspects of building your home – called design-build – is enjoying a renaissance. At Shelter, we believe that our design-build services provide the best combination of thoughtful, buildable and exiting design, with the greatest efficiency of process.
Comments From Our Customers
“We liked the proposition of designer/builder because our house was buildable as designed. We liked having one point of contact for all the decisions.”
“We wanted Shelter to build our house, and chose them as designers, too. We came to the building process without plans, but with a lifetime of images and sketches and words around how we wanted to live. We met with several architects and designers. Of them, Bruce was uniquely and supremely able to hear what our hearts were saying, and reflect back to us the house we’d always wanted. And he added attention in areas that were beyond us – how the light and the breezes come in, how we move through the house, how it frames the view. He helped us with virtually every important choice in the house.”
Building from your Plans
Many of the Shelter homes and renovations that you see in the portfolio are Shelter designed and built; many are designed by other architects and built by Shelter. Either choice promises you the strength and beauty of the workmanship for which Shelter is known. Shelter promises you the best house your money can buy and promises a trusting, creative, collaborative, satisfying building experience.
From a Charlottesville Architect:
“Shelter Associates was chosen from the submittal of four proposals, not because their fee percentage was lower, but in evaluating the fee along with all other proposal information, they seemed to provide the best overall package for the owner. From the start of their involvement through the completion of the job, Shelter proved themselves over and over again. Having worked with a wide variety of residential and commercial contractors in the past, I am convinced that Shelter is one of the finest.”
From a customer to his Architecture firm, who hired Shelter: “I can’t really see how you could go wrong working with this group.”
“Although I’ve worked with Shelter on other client’s projects, I always thought they would be out of my own price range. I learned differently. I expect a lot and am difficult to please. You definitely get what you pay for when you build with Shelter. There is not one thing I could have wished to improve upon. Somehow Shelter overcame my budget restrictions and made it all look like there had been none.”
