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The current, seemingly endless
construction slowdown has done
more than just slow things down.
Many custom builders, having dis-
tinguished themselves by placing
superior quality and service ahead
of price, are nding its also turned
a successful business model upside
down. For more than 25 years, Tom
Blalock and Phillip Knight ran their
custom building/remodeling/historic
restoration company on the principle
that clients would recognize quality
and professionalismand pay for it. We always had better success with older clients who had some experience
at this; whod had, frankly, some failures, says Knight. The company always sought to realize the clients vision, he
explains, not something that was close. People saw value in that. Now its changed 180 degrees. Cautious clients
remain on the sidelines, while those bold enough to get in the game are looking for a bargain. Competitorsand
there are more than evercut supervision hours from their bids, guring theyll x the inevitable construction errors
later. We just bid a project that I whittled down to the bone to try to get, says Blalock, who lost the project to a
builder who included $50,000 to $60,000 less in supervision. The product of this approach, Blalock says, ruefully, isnt
as good as it would have been, but its cheaper. Competing in a bottom-line-obsessed environment is no fun when
youve built your professional ethos on care in construction, but without forfeiting the companys good name, he says,
I dont know a whole lot we can do about it.
The rms pipeline of work has changed, too, both upstream and downstream. As the Atlanta-area residential market
has shrunk, architecture rms, once a dependable source of leads, have downsized radically or shifted to commercial
work, Blalock says. A lot of builders have gone to design/build; architects have just ceded that ground. Meanwhile, P
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Knight adds, the companys trade-contractor
community has suffered casualties, especially
one- and two-man specialty operations, such as
the iron workers, glaziers, and other craftspeople
who supported the companys historic restora-
tion work. A lot of them had to take real jobs.
Many of those who remain have downsized, he
continues, so you have to wait for a place in
their schedule. A lot of the mills that make win-
dows and doors have shut shifts down, so what
used to be a three- or four-week lead time is
now six. With so many capable tradespeople
going without work, Knight points out, the para-
dox of having to wait longer for work is strik-
ing, but he and his partner have more important
things to do than complain. Here in Atlanta,
he observes, if a construction company is still
in business, theyre scrambling to stay that way.
Surviving in this embattled business climate
takes perseverancehaving employed as many
as ve superintendents and projects managers in years past, Knight says, Were back to Tom and me
running things nowbut the companys diversication also has proved essential. Blalock founded
the business in 1984 (Knight hired on in 1987 and became a partner six years later), focusing rst on
renovations in Atlantas pre-WWII neighborhoods and working steadily up the scale in project size and
complexity. We were mostly working on older homes, houses built from 19101930, Blalock explains.
It wasnt a big jump from that to historic restoration. Eventually, the companys ability to handle com-
plex, technically challenging jobs opened the door to high-degree-of-difculty projects at the opposite
end of the style spectrum. The company built its rst modern house in 2003, and the combination of
historic and contemporary work proved a perfect match. We like them both because they both involve P
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Wrens Nest, once the
home of Joel Chandler
Harris, the adaptor and
publisher of the Uncle
Remus folktales.
detail and quality, Blalock says. We compete better at that. If anything, modern houses are even
more demanding than their historic counterparts. Weve seen quite a few projects that the contractor
couldnt complete; he was in over his head, Knight says. On these modern structures, if you make a
mistake early on, you cant cover it up, and you cant recover.
The companys twin niches bookend a local market more devoted to the architectural least com-
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mon denominator. For so long, the thing here in Atlanta was to tear down an old house and put up a McMansion, Knight says. It
still is. But the city boasts a stock of ne older buildings that also have their devotees. And while new-house clients lean heavily
toward traditional architecture, tastes among younger Atlantans have begun to shift. Youre seeing these little modern jewels pop
up in the most unlikely places, Knight notes. Scoring a modern project in the current climate is still a battle, he says, but Were
continuing to bid new modern houses. Some are being built and some arent. Its encouraging; at least the plans are being drawn.
People are still interested.
In the meantime, Knight reports, Were doing quite a bit of historic restoration jobs. One especially worth noting is a top-
to-bottom restoration of a 1931 house by prominent Atlanta architect Philip Shutze . Were taking it back to March 31, 1931,
Knight says. Everything is stripped back to original material. The project will take as long as four years to complete and will give
the company some welcome breathing room. Once under way, it also may take more supervi-
sion than the partners can handle on their own, but thats anything but a problem. Hopefully
were going to hire back a person or two when we start this project, Blalock says. Most of
the people we would hire back havent found work. Theyre doing jobs on their own, and they
would love to come back.
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Type of business: Custom builder /
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Years in business: 27
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Two design pros nd the common ground between architecture and
By Cheryl Weber, LEED AP
A Clean Get
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ncompassing 110 acres in Petersburg, N.Y., this property contains a house,
barn, pool, pool house, orchard, and pond: common features of a gentlemans
farm. What might not be immediately obvious, however, is the way the ar-
chitecture and the agrarian landscape are set up to invigorate each other, like
guests at a dinner party. With their cedar roofs and shingles and local Goshen
feldstone, the buildings, though formal, seem comfortable amid panoramic views of the
Taconic Mountains. And their arrangement invites visitors to stop, linger, and contemplate
the relationships between near and far views, and between the natural and man-made.
Case Study
Fall 2011 / Custom Home Outdoors / 65
a pastoral landscape.
t away
Visitors drive through the bays
of a modern barn before arriving
at the gravel court and house.
The barns long face appears
farmlike, while the short ends
express the architectural layers
of wall, fabricated truss, and
stone water table. A cupola lets
light into a workshops double-
height interior.
It wasnt always so ideal. The original driveways approach was too steep, and the
1980s clapboard Colonial house lacked a sense of place. The master plan grew out of a
close collaboration between LDa Architecture & Interiors , Cambridge, Mass.; Stephen
Stimson Associates Landscape Architects , based in Falmouth, Mass.; and the client, a
banker who travels internationally and cherishes the slower pace of life here. He had this
idea of a retreata place to hike in the woods, raise fsh in the pond, and entertain, says
LDa principal Treff LaFleche .
LaFleche and Stephen Stimson Associates principal Edward Marshall developed a
66 / Custom Home Outdoors / Fall 2011
driveway scheme that brings visitors
gradually along the hills fall line and en-
ters the property facing the Taconic Pass.
The drive slips through a puncture in the
entry barn and into a gravel courtyard
dominated by a massive split oak tree.
Along with the barn and house, the mani-
cured courtyard creates a formal edge to
the apple orchard and pond. Youve got
this dialogue among home and protection
and arrival, and the reward of the view
and landscape beyond, LaFleche says.
The design of the pool pavilion
evolved while the owner was working in
Japan. Positioned on the far side of the
main house, it has a more restrained vo-
cabulary of sliding glass walls, a standing
seam copper roof, and a freestanding oval
pod housing the bath. In place of down-
spouts, rain water tumbles down chains.
Much of this propertys charm comes
from the pieces that stitch it together.
The overarching idea was how we do
keep things minimal, purposeful, and not
overly done? Everything you need and
nothing you dont, Marshall says. Field-
stone is used prominently: on the base of
buildings, on retaining walls, on an up-
per terrace between the barn and house,
and on a lower dining terrace between
Case Study A Clean Getaway
Fall 2011 / Custom Home Outdoors / 67
the house and pool. But they decided on
wood for sweeping decks off the pool
and the houses rear. We wanted this
component of the landscape to feel a lit-
tle lighter because the grade starts to drop
away and views open up, Marshall says.
Small gestures, too, suggest subtle
distinctions between the formal and in-
formal. Dark blue painted trim on the
housenow sporting a cedar roof and
sidingdistinguishes it from the other
buildings. And the fencingprosaic
wood posts strung with stainless steel
cablesfnds a midpoint between mod-
ern and rustic.
Finding a balance between the com-
peting forces of architecture and the land-
scapethe ambiguous middle ground
is a guiding principle for me, LaFleche
says. When things are not so clear, it
forces people to try to understand the
subtleties of the space.
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