Events & Happenings

The Holidays are a big deal around here, and we spend many hours planning and preparing for our annual cards and gifts. Last year we came up with the GHA desktop calendar as a way to give a thoughtful gift that would last a bit longer through the year, and this year we took it …

As the economy struggles to right itself, mortgage rates have steadily increased after record lows just a few years earlier. Though many people were still reluctant to make a home purchase at the first sign of the increase, the trend seems to be reversing as an increase in August new home sales indicates. Up by …

This year GHA is participating in Movember and the guys in our office have BRAVELY volunteered their faces for 30 days to help change the face of men’s health. Every participant is committing to no shaving for 30 DAYS and in the process donating $1 for every day they grow their mustache/beard bigger. At the …

Our project English Country Estate commenced on Monday by removing the existing house and floating it up to the San Juans via barge. That’s roughly a 100 nautical miles or so from where it started. The process went smoothly, and everyone had a really fun time watching the feat of engineering take place. To see …

GELOTTE HOMMAS ARCHITECTURE BRINGS ON ERIC DRIVDAHL AS PRINCIPAL Seattle, WA – Sept. 12, 2013 — GELOTTE HOMMAS ARCHITECTURE, a nationally recognized custom residential architecture firm based in Bellevue, has brought Eric Drivdahl on as the third Principal of the firm. The announcement was made by the two owners, and Principals of the firm Curtis …

Our project English Country Estate begins demolition tomorrow, and this is not your average demo. The clients came to us wanting to build a gorgeous new English Estate, but they wanted to salvage the existing home by moving it to their property in the San Juan Islands. Starting tomorrow the existing home will be cut …

The Puget Sound Business Journal has an annual competition where they try and find out the most socially acceptable organizations around. The Puget Sound Business Journal has dubbed this competition #SocialMadness and it’s pretty awesome. In order to even be apart of the madness your organization has to be nominated, and GHA found out today …

One of the things we love is seeing a local company take things global, and that’s just what Pilgrim Africa has done. In fact, we are so inspired by what they are doing we have decided to partner with them. Pilgrim Africa was founded in 2001 in response to the plight of more than 1.5 …

As a company we like to be involved in our community, and give back. We also enjoy supporting the Seattle sports teams, such as the Seahawks. Which, is obviously easy to do when you are best friends with Russell Wilson (the quarter back from the Seahawks) Last month we sponsored a Hall of Fame dinner …

Monday April 1st was the thirty year anniversary here at Gelotte Hommas Architecture. Over the last thirty years the firm has had hundreds of clients, made thousands of connections and overall created some really meaningful relationships. On Monday night we opened our doors to all of them to say thank you. We recognize just how …