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Custom

Beyond the five models.

Custom projects keep the profile and change everything else. Same engineering, same crew, same precision; a custom project takes longer to design, and you still get the speed of a shape we have built many times.

A custom A-frame on a late October afternoon: black standing-seam roof, the glass gable set back under a porch shell trimmed in dark orange wood, a wide black entry door, a low black wing with a roof deck behind a clipped hedge, a lawn in front and fall woodland behind
A custom The Two joined to a low flat-roofed annex in high desert scrub under an overcast sky
A custom The Two with a matching small A-frame sauna and a deck stepping down to a lake
A black A-frame with a cedar-lined gable joined to a flat-roofed cedar wing over a two-car garage, a gravel drive beside a clipped lawn
A black A-frame with a cedar-lined gable and balcony, a long glazed wing with a roof deck, and an outside stair down to the drive in a forest clearing
A custom A-frame on a late October afternoon: the glass gable set back under a porch shell in dark orange wood, a black entry door, a low black wing with a clerestory window and a roof deck behind a clipped hedge, a lawn in front and fall woodland behind
A custom project

The model and the plans.

A 26′ A-frame beside a 26′ master wing: 3,354 sf, three bedrooms, a two-car garage and a roof deck over the wing. Turn the model, step through the levels and zoom into each floor.

3DModel
26′ A-frame, vertical walls, legs to grade · 34′ ridge · 22.6:12 pitch
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A custom A-frame's great room from in front of the spiral stair: a walnut slab table with black leather chairs, linen sofas on a wool rug, a board-formed concrete fireplace with a television above it, a skylight in the roof, the roof planes lined in warm wood with black steel beams, and the full-height glass gable framing a lawn and fall woodland
A custom A-frame's great room seen from the glass gable: a linen sofa in the foreground, a walnut dining table with black leather chairs, a black spiral stair to the loft, the kitchen under the loft and a window in the loft's back wall, the roof lined in wood with black steel beams, and a concrete fireplace with a television under a skylight
What custom can be

Six kinds of custom.

Annexes and wings
A low flat-roofed wing in the same black metal for a garage, a studio, a second living room or a covered outdoor room.
Paired buildings
A house and a matching sauna, guest cabin or office in the same profile, sharing a deck.
Lodges
Studios for guests, a Two or Three as the main house, and the site plan that ties them together.
Sizes between sizes
Need a Two that is longer, or a Three with a lower knee? The profile scales continuously; the five models are the ones we have already drawn.
Site-specific structure
Cantilevers over a slope, a plinth on rock, a frame hybridized with steel for spans the timber alone will not take.
Interiors
Full interior design and interior packages, for owners who want the house finished when the structure is.
A great room under cedar-lined A-frame rafters, a black fireplace and grey sofas, the dining table and black kitchen beyond and a loft office above
From the kitchen island, the great room under a cedar-lined A-frame roof, a black fireplace with a TV, a timber dining table and a full-height window to the trees
How it works

A call, a concept, a price.

  1. 01
    Call

    Thirty minutes on the site, the brief and the budget. We say early if a standard model would serve you better.

  2. 02
    Concept

    A site plan, elevations and a cost range within three weeks. A fixed fee, credited to the project if it goes ahead.

  3. 03
    Design and engineering

    Full drawings, structural calculations and permit support, then the build, step by step, like any AFRME.

  4. 04
    Build

    The AFRME crew builds it, start to finish, and hands over the keys.

How we build: the seven stepsBook a call about a custom project

Have a site that needs more than a standard model?

Book a call. If a standard model will do the job, we will tell you, and you keep the money.

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