Most of what people see of a Colorado Springs custom home build is the finished photo. The reveal. The staged living room with the light coming in right.
The part nobody photographs is the middle. The months where the house is closed in, the drywall is hung, and every trade is working on top of every other trade to get to the finish line. That is where two of our builds sit right now, and it is worth a look, because it is the stretch that separates a build that lands on schedule from one that does not.
Maul Road Custom Home Build
Maul Road did not start on Maul Road.
It started as a 130-year-old family home about 45 minutes away, a house with good bones and real history that was not going to survive where it stood. Rather than tear it down, we cut it into sections, moved it, set it on a new foundation, and put it back together.
If that sounds straightforward, it is not. Moving a structure is the easy part to picture and the hard part to execute. The house had to be separated along lines that could be reassembled. It had to survive the trip. It had to land on a foundation built to accept it, and then it had to be stitched back together so that the seams hold the way they would in a house that was never taken apart in the first place.
We covered that phase in our documentary series.
Where it stands now is a different kind of satisfying. Siding and exterior paint are largely complete. The drywall is up inside. A section of roof and some remaining paintwork are still on the list, and interior finishes are moving. The house reads as a house again, three levels with a basement, main floor, and upper floor, and the fact that it arrived here in pieces is no longer visible from the street.
That is the whole point. Nobody driving by should be able to tell.
17th Street Custom Home Build
17th Street is the smaller of the two, and a different kind of build. New construction, a basement that does not run the full footprint of the house, and a footprint that suits its lot rather than fighting it.
It is at a similar stage. Drywall is complete, and flooring and tile have been going in. From here it is the finish sequence, trim, paint, fixtures, the hundred small decisions that turn a structure into a home.
Two builds at the same phase, arrived at by completely different routes. One was rescued and reassembled. One was built new from the ground up. Both are in the stretch of a custom home build where coordination matters more than anything else.
What the finish stage of a Colorado Springs custom home build looks like
At the framing stage, one trade is on site and the schedule is simple. At the finish stage, you can have drywall, paint, flooring, tile, trim, electrical, and plumbing all wanting the same rooms in the same week. Sequence them wrong and you are paying crews to redo work that was already done correctly the first time.
This is the argument for a turn-key contractor in its most practical form. When one company is responsible for every stage, there is one schedule, one person accountable for it, and no gap between subs where the homeowner ends up refereeing. When the general contractor is also on the job site instead of managing it by phone, problems get solved the day they surface rather than the week after.
That is how we run every project, foundation through finish.
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We handle every Colorado Springs custom home build we take on from start to finish, along with major remodels throughout the surrounding Front Range. Foundation, structure, and every stage after it, under one roof.
One call. Every stage of the job.
Schedule a free consultation or follow the builds on YouTube to see these projects as they finish out.
Sanderson Quality Construction 2128 E Bijou St, Colorado Springs, CO 80909 (719) 663-4118
