ERT Architects’ Outdoor Living in “At Home” Magazine
Creating seamless transitions between indoor and outdoor living spaces has always been a part of our design process. In recent years, clients have shown an ever-increasing desire to maximize their enjoyment of their outdoor spaces, which has led to the inclusion of outbuildings and screened-in porches in several projects, two of which were featured in …
ERT Architects’ BRICC Award-Winning Project Featured in “At Home” Magazine
It was such an honor to have one of our projects recognized with a BRICC Award at last fall’s gala awards dinner. The awards are given by the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Cape Cod (HBRACC) to recognize excellence in home building and design and home remodeling. HBRACC also featured the home, located on …
What Does an Architect Do During Construction?
When you are having a home custom designed and built, the first step is typically a consultation with an architect, perhaps more than one, to discuss your vision for your home and begin to get to know the architect. Once you have decided on the architect that best suits your needs and seems to have …
Ocean Home Magazine Top Coastal Architects 2023
Fresh off our wins at last month’s BRICC Awards, ERT Architects has been named one of Ocean Home Magazine’s Top Coastal Architects of 2023. Unlike the BRICC Awards, which are specific to individual projects, the Ocean Home Magazine | Top Coastal Architects 2023 award is based on an architectural firm’s body of work as a …
2023 BRICC Award Winners
We were so honored to have two of our projects recognized at the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Cape Cod 2023 BRICC Awards Gala at the Cape Codder Resort & Spa. Held every other year, the BRICC Awards celebrate the “Best of the Best” in the region’s residential home design and building industry. Categories …
ERTA in the News: Cape Cod Home, Winter 2022
Fulfilling our clients’ needs and wishes is always, unequivocally, our goal when designing a home. Seeing the looks on the faces of the families we work with as their dream house begins to take shape is an incredibly rewarding experience that reaches its crescendo when they move in. Having that home then featured in a …
On the Boards at ERTA: Strong Island
With the amount of available buildable lots on Cape Cod at an all-time low, the number of clients of our New England architecture firm approaching us with “raze-and-replace” projects is at an all-time high. This is especially true of waterfront and water properties. Because the Cape was much more of a summer destination when many …
Why Hire a Cape Cod Architect?
Note that title; it isn’t “Why Hire an Architect?” It’s “Why Hire a Cape Cod Architect?” If you have worked with an architect in designing your home in the Boston area, or perhaps New York or Philadelphia, it would be understandable to want to work with that same architect in designing a second home on …
Landscaping to Complement a Home
Why, one might ask, is a Cape Cod architecture firm writing about landscaping? Good question, and we’ll tell you why: because your home’s design can either be greatly enhanced or severely diminished by its landscape design. If you are considering building a new home, or a large-scale renovation, it might be tempting to take a …
New England Architecture Through the Centuries
With Plymouth a prominent town in Massachusetts, those of us who live in the commonwealth – and perhaps throughout New England – like to think “our” settlement was the first settlement in what is now the United States. It wasn’t. The first English settlement was at Jamestown, established in 1607, 13 years before the Pilgrims …