GWINNETT - With over 128 prestigious awards over the last 10 years for excellence in residential home designs, Garrell Associates of Atlanta is currently considered to be the top residential home designer in the greater Atlanta area for the year of 2004.
Garrell Associates, Inc. is an Atlanta based residential design consultants firm founded by Michael W. Garrell in 1993. Mr. Garrell is a leading residential home designer having 17 years experience in the design of custom and production residential projects. Ten years of this time were spent as Senior Designer of one of Atlanta's largest builders, where Mr. Garrell was responsible for the residential design and design execution of approximately 2600 single family units. Residential designer and co-owner James H. Klippel joined the firm in 1994. Jim began working in the Atlanta home building business in 1974.
Together, Michael W. Garrell and James H. Klippel have made Garrell Associates an innovative resource for both professional homebuilders and individual clients who want the ultimate in custom designed homes. Garrell Associates, Inc. a leading residential design consultants firm brings together nearly 40 years of hands-on experience in Atlanta, working with many of the southeast's finest homebuilders. In addition to custom designs and four plan books, Garrell Associates, Inc. offers a variety of builder services, including community design and design review. Over the last 10 years, Garrell Associates, Inc. has been recognized with 28 prestigious awards for residential design excellence.
Garrell Associates, Inc. has worked with many of Atlanta's top 25 volume home builders including Colony Homes, Highland Homes, D.R. Horton, MDC Homes, Morrison Homes, Bowen Builders Group, Peachtree Residential, Touchtone Homes, and Beazer Homes.
The Companies ability to reduce construction costs through simplification of foundation and roof structures plays a significant part in attracting clients. Garrell Associates also provides services to the high-end custom market and the coastal market with a plan book that features low Country Ante-Bellum and Vernacular designs.
Garrell Associates award winning design team has created hundreds of stock house plans from which to choose your new home. They can also create a custom-tailored home to your personal life style. Garrell Associates has created custom designs from under 1,000 square feet to well over 10,000 square feet. You can see many examples of their work in Atlanta and in coastal Georgia's most prestigious communities. In addition to custom designs and four plan books, Garrell Associates, Inc. offers a variety of builder services, including community design and design review.
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Awards
Over the last 10 years, Garrell Associates, Inc. has been recognized with 128 prestigious awards for excellence in residential home designs. Garrrell Associates, Inc., counted among Atlanta's leading design companies for residential home designs excellence, recently capped the success of 1999 with 11 new awards for design excellence.
The company's awards sweep at the recent 1999 "Street of Dreams Show" helped to make 1999 a "dream year" for Garrell Associates, Inc. The show honored Garrell Associates, Inc. with 5 out of 5 awards from the design of Ashley Manor a nearly 5,000 sq ft custom home.
Ashley Manor featured the innovative style, imaginative detailing and architectural excitement that captured the top awards for all 5 categories, including the professionally judged awards for Best Architectural Design, Best Interior Design, and Best of Show. Garrell Associates, Inc. also claimed the attention of the public in the categories voted best by the visitors: Best of Show - Public Award and Best Architectural Design - Public Award.
Michael W. Garrrell, founding principal of Garrell Associates, Inc., believes the tremendous success was due to the company's ability to design homes that are both imaginative and very livable. "We are extremely pleased at the sweep of awards at the 'Street of Dreams' at BridgeMill. The level of architectural design, interior design and construction was very competitive, making it even more exciting to place as high as we did." Garrell went on to say, "Our team at Garrell Associates, Inc. knows the importance of creating homes that not only look exciting, but live very comfortably. We have earned our reputation by designing homes that respond to what today's buyers want."
Adding more awards to Garrell Associates' roster was the 1999 Professionalism Awards, sponsored by the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association Sales and Marketing Council in November 1999. Considered the ultimate award for Atlanta's home building industry, the 1999 Professionalism Awards presented 6 new awards to Garrell Associates, Inc., including Gold Awards in three Best Single Family Detached categories: $220,000 to $249,999 for Touchstone Homes in Highlands at Park Ridge; $250,000 to $299,999 for Touchstone Homes at Hamilton Mill, and $575,000 to $649,999 for Bowen Builders Group at Belmore Estates. Three Silver Awards were won for Best Single Family Detached categories: $100,000 to $129,000 for Bowen Builders Group at Weatherstone Park; $190,000 to $219,999 for Ashton Woods at Canterbury Woods; and $250,000 to $299,999 for John Willis Homes at Three Chimneys Farm.
James H. Klippel, co-principal of Garrell Associates, Inc., said the company is extremely gratified by the number of awards in so many price-point categories at the Professionalism Awards. "Garrell Associates takes tremendous pride in our ability to design home for a broad spectrum of home builders and buyers," said Klippel. "We are experts at value-engineering a home, so we can create more design excitement without proportionally increasing the cost to build. That's one of the distinct advantages that allows us to design award winning homes in all price ranges. Our custom homes reveal our variety and range of styles in both floor plan and exterior designs."
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