Who We Are
We are Lisa and Jason Collins and we are a Design-Build team with a passion for the art of Home & Garden design and construction. With artists' sensibilities and 30+ years each of experience, we craft elegant, creative and durable solutions for your indoor and outdoor renovation projects, and we transform your living spaces using mastery level skills in custom remodeling, woodcrafting, space planning and design.
We were each in business for ourselves for a handful of years before joining forces as a Design-Build team in 2009.
What We Do
We design. We build. We pay attention to all of the details.
Our goal is to help you achieve indoor and outdoor living spaces for your home that fully meet your needs and exceed your best imaginings, and to do so in a way that is highly professional, efficient, and most of all pleasant and satisfying for all parties involved.
What We Don’t Do
We don’t do bids. We are very good at estimating and we prefer to have complete transparency with our clients. The bidding system is set up in a way that either the client or the contractor loses (and it’s usually the client) and we’ve learned over the years that we want everyone to win on every single aspect of every project that we do.
OUR SERVICES
Full-Service Planning and Design Consultation for Interiors & Exteriors
Licensed & Bonded Residential General Contracting
Custom Remodeling — Kitchens, Bathrooms, etc.
Additions & Dormers
Accessory Dwelling Units, Studios, Sheds
Custom Furniture, Built-ins and Cabinetry
Decks, Fences, Gazebos, Arbors, Gates
Garden Consultations & Planning Advice
Landscape Master Plans
Detailed Planting and Hardscape Design
Project Management
About Jason...
While other kids were playing with army men and Atari, Jason spent his time as a young child taking apart old clocks and electronics -- and then putting them back together. He spent countless hours and days making things and learning carpentry with his grandfather, and crafting makeshift go-carts and small furniture pieces with his dad. He began to learn construction during summers in college, and in the thirty-five years since has achieved mastery level skill as a licensed general contractor and carpenter, and the versatility to be able to tackle virtually all aspects of residential building and remodeling.
Anyone who has worked with Jason will tell you that his integrity, craftsmanship and attention to detail are unmatched.
About Lisa...
From a very young age Lisa understood that the design of place is paramount, filling countless shoeboxes as a kid with the sketches, paintings and "blueprints" of the places in her imagination. She studied fine art and psychology as an undergraduate, and shortly after graduation moved to the Pacific Northwest where she fell hopelessly in love with the garden as an art form. She went on to graduate school to study landscape architecture, and has been designing gardens professionally since the late 90's.
Lisa has written a monthly garden column for the Oregonian's Home & Garden magazine, taught classes on Plant Identification and Ecology at the University of Oregon, and was a team leader and teacher at the Urban Farm in Eugene, Oregon. She's been a certified Master Gardener since 1998.
As a designer, Lisa is a place-maker who revels in the challenge of cultivating a sense of magic in every space she transforms. She offers her skills as a designer for both indoor and outdoor projects, with a particular strength in space planning for both function and beauty.
We enjoy what we do so much that often the line between work and play is a bit fuzzy…
but in our downtime we adventure as a family with our 17 yr. old twin sons and our amazing community of friends. When we’re not working, we spend much of our lives outdoors usually hiking, taking long neighborhood walks, sailing or paddle-boarding, or watching our kids play soccer. Jason is a voracious reader and really good cook who loves to sail, and Lisa enjoys doting on her puppy, gardening, painting and designing patterns for fabric, wallpaper and home decor to unwind.