Author: Gelotte Hommas Architecture

We are architects, true, but we are also people. With families and friends who we care very much about. We feel a bit special in the fact that most of our clients become friends as well. To us this means we care about what they care about, and get involved. We’re just like that. One …

We are updating a few of our marketing pieces around here. Our marketing guru Nikki is working on developing a custom font for some of these pieces and we wanted to share. The similarities of the way designing something looks is pretty universal. You stick to the basics of form and function, throw in some …

One of our co-workers spent the last few days at Glacier National Park in Montana camping with her family.  Being surrounded by that much natural beauty one can’t help but get inspired. One of our principal’s Scott Hommas is actually from Montana, and grew up not too far from Lake McDonald.  As a child Scott …

I know that normally we do Friday Fun here on the Gelotte Hommas blog, but today is different. Today we are doing Friday NOT so fun. In fact, today we are talking about something down right horrific! I understand that after reading this post, many of you may “unsubscribe” to our blog posts on the …

Now that summer is here, so is the heat, and by here I don’t mean Washington State as it’s currently 63 and raining.  We have heard it is hot everywhere else though, so we thought we would share an amazing energy saving, renewable option for heating and cooling a home. One of our current underway …

One of our current underway projects is getting close to demo time. Waterfront Reflections is a beautiful home situated on an amazing piece of property on the shores of Lake Washington. The property has an existing structure which is scheduled to be demo’d very soon. But this particular home is going to get a special kind …

Last week we rallied the troops for a fund raiser benefiting the MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association). Every year the MDA hosts “Lock-Up” where someone from your organization goes to “jail” to raise money for bail. Their “bail” money goes to the MDA to send kids to things like summer camp. This is truly an amazing organization that …

This morning’s mail greeted us with TWO surprises. The first was the COVETED July/August issue “Best of 425” of 425 Magazine came EARLY and the second was that we WON Best Architect- AGAIN! 425 Magazine is hosting the “Best of 425 Cocktail Party” tonight at the Blue Martini Lounge in Bellevue to recognize and celebrate …

From start to finish there are quite a lot of details that go into the design, and then build out processes of residential architecture. This can take anywhere from 6 months to 3 years depending on the size and complexity of the project. Whether remodeling your guest bathroom, or designing a 35,000 sq. ft home …

FUN – that’s what! Every summer  SOVREN (Society of Vintage Racing Enthusiats) hosts The Pacific Northwest Historics from  June 29th thru July 1st. This is a weekend filled with vintage car races. As if THAT wasn’t cool enough on it’s own, the whole reason the guild does this is to raise money for our very own Seattle Children’s …