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Personalized attention to make your house a home.
Services Provided
Architectural Design, Architectural Drawings, Barn Design & Construction, Building Design, Custom Homes, Drafting, Floor Plans, Historic Building Conservation, Home Additions, Home Extensions, Home Remodeling, House Plans, New Home Construction, Site Preparation
Areas Served
Alderton, Algona, Auburn, Bonney Lake, Buckley, Camp Murray, Carbonado, Edgewood, Enumclaw, Fife, Fife Heights, Frederickson, Graham, La Grande, Lakeland South, Lakewood, Longmire, McMillin, Milton, North Puyallup, Orting, Pacific, Paradise Inn, Prairie Ridge, Puyallup, South Hill, South Prairie, Summit, Sumner, Tacoma, Waller, Wilkeson, All of WA State, Texas
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6 Reviews for Richard Flake Architecture

HU-515240469
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I hired Richard Flake to draft as-built drawings for a remodel we were working on and to provide recommendations for bringing the house to code. We went halfway through the remodel and decided to stop the project after getting a few draft documents from him. We are still awaiting the final accounting and partial refund and it's been 9 weeks since he started saying "I'll get the refund to you next week". We will revise this review based on whether we get a refund check from him - could go up, could go down...
December 22, 2020Last modified:December 22, 2020

joeybowles
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My husband and I purchased a 1960s rambler with a terrible floor plan. We had ideas for how to rework it, but couldn’t figure out how to get everything we wanted inside the walls so that it flowed nicely and felt open. A friend recommended Richard to us, and he quickly presented a few different options to suit our needs. We then hired him for more detailed work and feel so fortunate to have had his help. He is a true artist with years of experience and fantastic vision. Richard’s passion and enthusiasm for our project was contagious, and kept us motivated throughout. His attention to detail is especially notable, as we had never done a renovation before. Besides his plans, he also provided tips when working with the subcontractors. We are now living in our beautiful home and couldn’t be happier. He truly helped us design and build our dream home!
March 20, 2018

Rajeev Singh-Molares
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Client
Richard was great. He in creative and at the same time listens well. He has very high quality standards which makes him an ideal partner to design a home (and in our course to help manage the overall construction process). His experience in working with all sorts of materials (steel structures, concrete walls, glass, different kinds of insulation, etc) makes him pretty special. So a strong recommendation for anyone wanting to build or design a high quality (and unique) home.
February 28, 2018

sharonp
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Absoiutly gifted with the ability to understand who the client is and their desires relative to the appearance, function and budget. Very creative with a great eye for the smallest detail. Willing to battle with the client for the integrity of the design. We were always amazed with Richard's ability to immediately creat a sketch depicting what we are trying to explained. Highly recommended without reservation.
March 18, 2016

HU-289185
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Richard designed and managed the construction of our custom home build. His attention to detail and eye for design is phenomenal. He has a unique ability to tie all the details of a design and build together in a seamless way that displays the thought and vision that went into overall project before the first nail was driven.
March 16, 2016

Cascade Home Design
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I have been working with Richard now for over a year and strongly recommend him to anyone in need of a Experienced Architect! He is very knowledgeable in the Residential Design field, and Construction Methods. I have hired Him to create Preliminary Designs for me and both my Clients and my self were very Impressed.
June 9, 2014
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Commented: HVACreally like your projects..... especially that one in portland.... black with center stair to roof deck.
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November 12, 2020
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First, the project was brought to us in order to comply with a code enforcement violation, not just remodeling, Illegal remodeling. Yes as-builts, of the illegally completed improvements, which included converting an original half story space into an entire upper floor with no permits, no drawings, no wisdom nor regard to any codes. And this construction work was done all the way through sheetrock before being caught. We think this surely illuminates the situation more clearly.
We were brought on board to show a path to bringing those unapproved improvements into compliance, along with correspondence to the building official and with the consultation and input of a structural engineer. Ultimately we arrived at a viable proposed solution.... which we presented the path with means and with methods to overcome the code violations throughout the structure. After the client consulted with the very same contractor, they determined the work to retrofit the deficient work was too difficult and too expensive. And as it appears, was in fact too difficult to do it correctly even the second time. Well, they decided to cancel the project.
So to our defense of our good reputation, we are being attacked now by a disgruntled client for making poor choices and judgement. Read into this very common scenario as you wish, but please temper any rush to judgement as we are professionals with integrity and a standard of knowledge & professionalism. We provided this service to the best of our abilities.. And we are in process of doing proper project closeout and will present proper documentation related to the contract work for this project accordingly.
Thank you.