North Carolina Home Architects design projects physically connected to the mountain bedrock.

North Carolina is a beautiful place, particularly in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina.  Finding the right North Carolina Home Architects to create your house plans for your residential project is an important step to achieving your goal of creating your mountain dream home in North Carolina.  Places that have special appeal are Cashiers, Lake Toxaway, Sapphire, Glenville and Highlands.  All of these rural villages are on “The Plateau”, an elevated portion of the southern tip of the Appalachian Mountain chain along US Highway 64, running from east to west, starting about 50 miles west of Asheville.  The average elevation is around 3,500’ ASL (Above Sea Level), but can be lower and some of Rand Soellner Architect’s projects are built on the sides of cliffs at 4,600’ ASL.  His own Falcon Cliff Lodge is at 3,580’.  This is the province of a rare type of North Carolina home architects.  Those in the mountains.

One of Rand Soellner's projects in North Carolina, under construction. North Carolina Home Architects have an appreciation for this unique mountain environment. (C)Copyright 2009 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

North Carolina Home Architects : the Rand Soellner Architect firm

Western North Carolina has an Alpine Rain Forest ecology.  This is the only one of these special environments in the eastern United States.  It takes special experience and skill to properly design homes here.  Rand Soellner home architects is a licensed architectural firm in several states, including North Carolina and some people call him an “architect’s mountain architect”, meaning that he knows more about how to design and build in unique mountain environments that most others on the planet.  He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture, and his educational and real world life has held a focus of design for about 40 years.  He has never seen a situation for which he couldn’t design an attractive solution.  When it comes to North Carolina Home Architects and Designers, Rand Soellner Architect is at the top of his profession. 

Going About Finding North Carolina Home Architects to Design Your Home

North Carolina home architects Rand Soellner designed this magnificent home in Western North Carolina. (C)Copyright 2004-2010 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

How would you going about finding North Carolina Home Architects to create the house plans for your new mountain residence design?  Well, for one thing, type in search phrases for what you think you want into your Google browser, then review the websites that come up on the first page.  Those are usually companies that are popular or that are making current contributions to their practice or are being published or are otherwise active in a particular genre.  For instance, Rand Soellner Architect comes up usually in the top 4 or even #1 when you type in things like: “World’s leading mountain home architect” or “mountain home architects” or “mountain home architect” or “Appalachian home architect” or your city’s or state’s name followed by: Timber Frame Architects or Post and Beam Architects.  Make some notes about those firms whose websites seem to resonate within you.  Cast aside those who have no appeal for you.  Then re-review the companies to whom you feel most attracted, go into depth on their websites.  Whether you are looking for North Carolina home architects or any other state, the same philosophy works.  Read every word about the company you are considering; check out their entire website.  Does it sound like they know what they are talking about, or is it just marketing fluff?  Do you actually learn things about their practice, valuable things borne of their experiences creating designs and seeing them get built over decades?  Do they have some testimonials on their website; people who have said some nice things about them?  Do they sound like they are knowledgable home architects?

North Carolina Home Architects and Custom Home Designers

North Carolina Home Architects designed this home, inside and out. Designed by Rand Soellner Architect. (C)Copyright 2005-2010 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

Now, make a phone call to your possible North Carolina Home Architects and have a chat.  Do they seem like nice people with whom you want to have an extended relationship over the upcoming months (and possible years) as they create your house plans?  Can they answer your questions knowledgably?  Do you get a good feeling about them?  Do they have any energy efficient home architect strategies for your house design project?  North Carolina home architects have special insights to help you get the vacation or retirement house about which you have been dreaming.

The Difference Between a Home Architect and a Home Designer

And what exactly is the difference between an Architect and a Designer?  Well, for one thing, an Architect is a state-licensed professional that has spent decades earning major university degrees, serving in apprenticeship roles for experienced architects and have passed rigorous exams, then has to take demanding continuing education courses every year.  Their practices are monitored by the States in which they are licensed.  Architects can design.  Designers can’t legally call themselves Architects and cannot legally do all that an Architect can do, by law.  Architects have more experience.  Designers have no one monitoring their activities and they may have no credentials whatsoever, or they may be people that could not or have not passed the required tests or obtained the degrees necessary to be the real thing.  Anyone can call themself a designer, then offer to plan your house.  Our advice is: hire an Architect; you’ll be glad you did, and you are much more likely to receive documents that professionally indicate what it is that you want, so that when your contractor builds it, it is what you expected: your mountain dream home design!  In North Carolina, we suggest that you engage North Carolina home architects.

In North Carolina, Contact Licensed North Carolina Home Architects

Call Rand Soellner Architect at: 828-743-6010  e-mail: rand@homearchitects.com  website: www.HomeArchitects.com

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