Friday Fun – Houseboat Architect

Being a Seattle native architecture firm we have the pleasure of designing homes for some of natures most beautiful terrain’s. All within the Washington border there is Rainforest, Lake Front, Beach Front, Wooded and Down Town city scapes. We have designed every possible type of home there is from Mediterranean to Cape Cod, and everything …

The 7 Stages of Residential Architectural Design – An Info-graphic

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 …

GHA home featured in Pacific NW Magazine

Over the weekend one of our homes was featured in Pacific NW Magazine in The Seattle Times.View the Full article by clicking here.    

Gelotte Hommas Architecture of Seattle, WA Receives Houzz’s 2012 ‘Best Of Remodeling’ Award

Gelotte Hommas Architecture of Seattle, WA Receives Houzz’s 2012 ‘Best Of Remodeling’ Award  First-Ever Survey & Analysis of More than 1.2 Million Members Reveals Top-Rated Professionals and Current Design Trends from Across the Country Seattle, WA  —  March 19, 2012 – Gelotte Hommas Architecture of  Seattle, Washington has been awarded  “Best Of Remodeling” 2012 by …

(Be my) little house on the prairie

Since “Prairie Style Architecture” is really popular right now (we’ve got the blog and website stats prove it), we thought we would give you something to oogle at. May I introduce you to three projects: Open Prairie is a 3,300 square feet home in Kirkland. Here are some specs: • Prairie-style with broad, sheltering overhangs • …

Sage in your ketchup? What custom residential architecture looks like

What IS architecture? Have you ever asked this question? Most people have at one point or another considered what it would be like to design and build their own custom home. What stops them is that surprisingly there are quite a few misconceptions about custom residential architecture floating around out there.  Today we thought we …

Northwest living: Waterfront Reflections

We have some pretty amazing projects underway, but Waterfront Reflections is unique for a few reasons. ‘Northwest living’ can truly range from deep in the woods of Tumblecreek to a bluff in the San Juan’s overlooking the Puget Sound, and everything in between. GHA homes are designed from elegance and embrace the gorgeous Northwest scenery …

Pop-Up card for Valentine’s day

Happy Valentines Day everyone! Whether you are celebrating today with as a couple, or not, there is always someone you can show some love to today. We were inspired over here at GHA and got a little crafty. We designed a pop-up card based on a custom tile mosaic on one of our client’s wine …

Top ten most romantic homes of 2012 (and one from 2011 too)

There is 3 more days until Valentines day (one if you are only counting business days). *gulp* Are you all set to swoon the love of your life on Tuesday? If not – good luck to you. Well, we can’t exactly help you out in the gift department, but in the meantime we sure can get …

The cardboard cottage

We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again – we just love our community and getting involved. That in mind, when The Bear Creek School approached us for a procurement item for their annual auction, needless to say we were thrilled! Almost as soon as we decided to accept we started to consider what we …