05 The studio
One hallway, five accountabilities.
Twenty-six architects, estimators, carpenters and superintendents share the Coach House studio. These five lead, and on every project each of them guards one specific promise. Ask them which. They enjoy the question.
The leadership team
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June Hartwell
Founder & Principal
June trained as a finish carpenter, ran crews for a decade, and founded Hartwell in 2004 on one belief: the person who prices the house and the person who designs it should share a hallway. She still walks every active site on Fridays.
What they guard The promise: every number and date we put in writing.
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Priya Raman
Director of Architecture
A licensed architect who left a large commercial practice because she wanted to see her buildings lived in, not leased. Priya leads the in-house studio and sits beside the estimator at every design review, by design.
What they guard The design: proportion, light and your brief, kept whole from sketch to keys.
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Tom Whitaker
Preconstruction Director
Tom has estimated more than four hundred homes and will tell you the uncomfortable number at the first meeting, kindly. He runs the 30/60/90 estimate checkpoints that keep our designs and our budgets from drifting apart.
What they guard The number: real allowances, priced drawings, no teaser budgets.
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Sofia Reyes
Interiors & Selections Lead
Sofia turns the thousand decisions of a custom home into a calm, scheduled sequence: tile before drywall, lighting before framing. Clients call her the reason the project never once waited on them.
What they guard The decisions: every selection made on time, on budget and in writing.
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Dale Kowalski
Senior Site Superintendent
Twenty-eight years in the trades, the last fourteen running Hartwell sites. Dale's Tuesday owner walks are known for two things: a spotless site, and the truth about the schedule, whichever way it is leaning.
What they guard The site: safety, sequence and a jobsite you could bring your grandmother to.
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And the other 21
Carpenters, designers, an apprentice class of four.
Our carpentry crew builds what most builders subcontract away, and our four-year apprenticeship has graduated eleven journeyed carpenters since 2010. Craft is a staffing decision before it's a slogan.
A note on the portraits: this is a fictional demonstration studio, so the team appears as monograms rather than photographs. On a real builder's site, these hold real people, photographed in the shop where they work.
Begin
Meet three of them at your first meeting.
First meetings always include the principal, the architect and the estimator, because those are the three whose answers you're really buying.
The studio: studio@hartwellhomes.example · +1 (555) 019-2400