YR Architecture + Design

I was quite hesitant to engage with Yvonne and her team at first having never met them, and no face to face communication. I had a floor plan we had been developing for over a year, but were unable to incorporate some aspects we wanted. So after reading the blogs, website, emails, and articles from YR-Architecture I decided to ask for help. WOW, was that money well spent! Yvonne personally engaged with us, helping workout the details and in some ways not so minor changes so we could incorporate the features that are important to us. Yvonne helped us cut out non-living space like hallways, increasing bedroom and living area sizes, create a much larger pantry, and the entrance from the garage (mud room) is much larger, has a smoother transition, and will make for a much easier entry to the home. She helped walk through the pro's and con's matching dormers to the lower level windows on being able to make the floor plan work as intended, just the understanding and clarity she and her team brought to the conversation was worth the cost. My biggest fear, communicating via email was quickly dismissed, our communication was easy, quick, transparent, and worked great. My second biggest fear, quality of the work for the money spent was alleviated with the first communications. I am confident I received as good, if not better, service, input, and advice as if I had hustled all over town, going back and forth to a local architect's office. Having the luxury of time management, being able to correspond on my very hectic schedule, was a massive added benefit. I own a large CPA firm, my time is valuable, and limited. Being able to communicate after hours, not having to take time out of my daily routine to communicate with an architect was a blessing. Going forward I will engage Yvonne and her team on any significant building project, and recommend them highly to anyone needing their services. Dean Owen, CPA, MST, PFS 270-554-0720

We’re building a house in the mountains but have been really struggling with our very traditional contractor who wanted very much to build a fine home for us but who wanted to give it plenty of “mountain accents,” which would have made it look like every other home in our area. Trying to define our own style, a modern, minimalist design with a hint of the Blue Ridge in it, we continued to get pushback from our contractor and were, frankly, losing confidence that we were headed in the right direction. Reading blog after blog and scouring website to try and find someone who understood our desire to merge two (and a half) design styles, we discovered Yvonne. And she understood exactly what we were attempting. After talking to her and exchanging several emails, our blueprints, photos of our site, pictures of the homes that inspired us and exchanging the “whys” about our dream home, Yvonne made multiple tweaks to our drawings - and a pretty substantial suggestion on materials - and delivered a design that immediately landed with both of us. A couple of emails and a quick phone conversation later and we had a plan that we could get behind 100%. The home is almost finished, it’s coming out exactly as we had hoped and we expect to move to the mountains before the end of summer. Describing your dream home can be tough - sometimes because it’s there - on the edge of your vision - but not really defined enough to truly verbalize it. What Yvonne really did was gradually tease out what we hadn’t been able to do by ourselves. She added color and a much sharper focus to the vision we had and we are, frankly, stunned. If we have any regrets, it’s that we didn’t start working with her at the very beginning of the process… I suspect we’d have had a lot fewer discussions with our contractor and a much smoother plan to follow. Thanks, Yvonne, for helping us realize our dream!