Why 1000 West

The typical process for building a custom home involves dozens of partners — architects, builders, engineers, interior designers, landscape architects, real estate agents, loan officers, and various sub-contractors — who aren’t always rowing in the same direction. As a result, you’ll find that there’s often not a lot of room for your own ideas and elbow grease, not to mention, your heart and soul.

With 1000 West Homes, you’ll work with one company — us — for the whole duration of your build. We’ll help you express your vision while sharing our expertise and a healthy dose of reality to make sure your home is achievable (within your budget). We integrate all those other people into our process using the same professional project management best practices that build great civic centers, opera houses, and other public works. What’s more? We want you to be as involved, creative, and sweaty as you want to be — or not — that’s up to you.

By wrapping our arms around every aspect of your project and managing whole process from start to finish, we save you money and make decision-making easier, which means you have time to focus on what matters to you, like finding design inspiration or planning where Nana is going to sit when everyone comes over to visit.

As your partner, 1000West is different by doing it all.

We recommend building homes the way a child would draw them — simple in form, and with a focus on the people inside.

This architectural philosophy isn’t insignificant. It’s how we’re able to build healthy, high-performance homes for responsible prices.

Unlike McMansions, which often feature complex roofs covering incoherent and inefficient floor plans, our simpler designs result in fewer saw cuts and foundation corners, less labor, and more affordable and efficient homes that feel as good on the inside as they look on the outside.

Traditional code-built homes can be drafty, poorly insulated, and downright uncomfortable to live in. We take a different approach. 1000 West Homes creates real health benefits through airtight assemblies, mechanical ventilation, performance windows and doors, loads of insulation, and some clever construction details.

We nerd-out on the design and engineering details that turn your home’s foundation, walls, and roof into a high-performance building envelope, creating benefits that never go out of style.

Our homes are:

• More comfortable — with stable temperatures and no cold corners, no matter the weather.

• Cleaner – exchanging and filtering indoor air to reduce irritants and help your family breathe easier.

• Quieter — keeping the stressors of noisy environments at bay so your family can focus and enjoy night after night of undisturbed sleep.

• Efficient — ensuring conditioned air stays where you want it — inside your home — which lowers your energy bills and promises a quicker return on your investment, especially as the price of domestic energy continues to rise.

In an era where everything is getting more expensive and throw-away products and materials seem the norm, we’re doing our best to build amazing homes from robust, easy-to-maintain components that are within reach for more people. Our one-of-a-kind construction management process, practical designs, building-science-backed construction details, and discerning materials selection result in a responsible and lower total cost of ownership over the life of the home when compared with traditional, code-built houses (not to mention the aging housing stock on the market).

While it’s true you may spend a little more up-front, the savings start to pile up as soon as you start living in your home. Download our total cost of ownership worksheet to see how fast you can start earning a return on your investment.