No Place Like Home for the Holidays

“Home is the nicest word there is.” Laura Ingalls Wilder Cards, gingerbread villages, and mounds of cookies: we love all of it. From Thanksgiving through the New Year, the Gelotte Hommas Drivdahl team savors every bit of the holidays. This season reminds us afresh of who we are: a team of Bellevue architects committed to …

How Building Information Modeling Makes Your Dream Home Tangible

Gelotte Hommas Drivdahl Architecture is a team of passionate individuals determined to serve our clients. That’s our heart: service. And while we often draw on the past for inspiration and wisdom in our Pacific Northwest custom designs, we also push toward the future and embrace the latest technology to serve our clients well. That’s where …

The Art of Fall: How Pumpkins Help Us Design Custom Homes

We thrive on art. While custom architecture is our chief passion, we embrace art in all its varied forms—pumpkin carving included. ‘Tis the season, after all! Even more, we love cheering on the artistic minds we work with. For years, we’ve loved seeing what project manager Curtis Peterson would call forth from everyone’s favorite Halloween …

Getting to Know You

Gelotte Hommas Drivdahl Architecture thrives on relationships. Our clients trust us with their dream homes, with the ideas they’ve been gathering and treasuring for years. As Bellevue architects, we take seriously that trust. We strive to build on it and to create an environment where our clients (you!) feel heard, understood, and valued. As we …

Coastal Cove House

As the East coast gets hit with a massive winter storm, I thought we could all use some warm thoughts of summer. Check out one of our recently finished projects Coastal Cove House

Wooden slab into conference room fab: Re-purposing

Re-purposing materials for another use is a part of our architectural practice with our projects, but it doesn’t stop there. When we moved into our current office building four years ago we gained an extra conference room. A bigger conference room, which of course needed a bigger conference room table. The current table that we …

The Architecture Behind the Bellevue Arts Museum

The Bellevue Arts Museum is a creative mecca here in Bellevue Seattle. While we admire the art within and it provides great creative inspiration, the building itself is an architectural piece of art. The Bellevue Arts Museum is a compilation of glass, textured concrete, and aluminum that creates a bold and modern silhouette in the downtown …