Houses drawn and built by the same people.
We’re a small design-build firm. We take on about eight homes a year, so the person who sketches your house at the kitchen table is still there when you get the keys.
Plan your build See our homes
The sketch
It starts at your kitchen table: how you live, what the lot gives you, what the budget allows.
One team, start to finish
Design-build means one contract and one team. No bouncing between an architect and a builder who’ve never met.
“We’d rather build eight houses we’re proud of than twenty we’re not. If that means we’re booked a season out, we’ll tell you that on the first call.”Elena & Mark Rivas, founders
Get a ballpark in two minutes
Size, finish level, lot. You’ll see a sample range and a timeline before you ever call us.
Plan your buildHomes we’ve built
Every one is different, because every family and every lot is.
From first call to keys
Most homes take 14 to 20 months from our first meeting to move-in. Here’s where that time goes.
You’ll always know where things stand
Every Friday you get photos from the site and a short note: what got done, what’s next, and anything we need you to decide.
What we take on
A ballpark, before you call
Move the pieces around and see how size, finish and extras change the range and the timeline. Sample numbers for this demo; on your site, your own pricing.
Notes from the job site
Short, honest writing about building a house: what costs what, and what we’d do differently.
Small on purpose
Elena is an architect. Mark spent fifteen years running framing crews. They started Atlas in 2012 because they kept watching good designs get lost between the drawing and the job site.
Today Atlas is fourteen people: two designers, a project manager for every three homes, and our own framing and finish carpenters. We sub out the trades that need a license, and we’ve worked with most of the same electricians and plumbers for a decade.
We build about eight homes a year, within an hour of the shop.
Questions we hear a lot
After you move in
We come back at 30 days and again at 11 months to walk the house with you and fix anything that’s settled, cracked or squeaks. Structure is covered for ten years, systems for two, finishes for one.
Work with us
We hire slowly and keep people a long time.
- Finish carpenterFull time. Trim, built-ins, stairs. Bring photos of your work.
- Project managerFull time. Three homes at a time, weekly client updates, site safety.
Tell us about your home
We reply within two business days. The first meeting is free and usually happens on your lot.
Studio visits by appointment.
(555) 014-2200 · hello@atlas-demo.example