My architectural design career
began in 1984 by researching the entire United States housing market for an Iowa company, Home Marketing Corporation.
I was tasked with writing an extensive business plan outlining the possibilities for a nationwide new home program in partnership with a national Real Estate company. We created numerous home designs that reflected regional architectural trends for the United States along with marketing insights for Viceroy Homes in Canada. This endeavor ignited my enthusiasm for design and construction and I chose to personally engage the in the hottest building market in the world at the time, Atlanta, Georgia.
I have a natural inclination for tracking future trends and creating design elements that expand the expectations of future home buyers.
Within a few weeks after moving to Atlanta, I and a contractor partner formed an architectural design and contracting company and began building 6 houses in the north Atlanta region. We created a line of very affordable homes that embodied the quality and look of a much more expensive product. Our first 3 homes made it into Better Homes and Garden’s Home Plan issues. And subsequently, our homes and plans generated 38 pages of featured articles in the magazine. We were also featured in Professional Builder magazine, the number one periodical for General Contractors in America.
In those early years we built, from ground up, many of our home designs and continued our Architectural Design firm Hanford Allen Homes. Many designs were sold by Better Homes and Gardens and built through out the United States.
The residential designs found below were created by Hanford Allen Homes, for the Southeast region and specifically for the Atlanta home market, in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
A Typical Set of Plans
includes all blueprint requirements to fulfill the code and design particulars of each project.
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