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 …
Maximizing Natural Light in Home Design
If you’re a fan of HGTV home-flipping shows such as Good Bones or the recently departed Flip or Flop, you may have noticed the shows’ featured contractors and perspective homebuyers continually refer to the importance of natural light. While we might question the actual reality of these so-called “reality shows,” we wholeheartedly agree that maximizing …
Cape Cod Home Remodeling Is Booming
According to a recent article in the Cape Cod Times, there were 88 homes for sale on Cape Cod under $1M in January. In January of 2020, before the pandemic, there were nearly a thousand homes for sale with a price of less than a million dollars. Anecdotal evidence indicates that bidding wars on homes …