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Colorado Springs · Front Range · Colorado

Thirty Years of Building. Truly Custom Homes in Colorado Springs.

A select few homes a year, designed in-house from a blank page — never from a plan set. If you can describe how you want to live, we can build it.

30+years of building experience
~10select homes a year, each one personally vetted
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Andy Stauffer working through design ideas on paper with a client
This is what starting looks like — ideas on paper, two people at a table. The drawings come later.

Start before the plans exist

You don’t need plans to call a builder. That’s what we’re for.

Most people wait to call until they feel ready — plans drawn, every answer settled. Here, that sequence runs backwards. Our design team is in-house, so there’s no architect to hire first and no handoff between the people who draw your home and the people who price it. The first conversation is where the design starts.

All it takes is what you already have: your land, the number you’re comfortable with, and the Pinterest board or napkin sketch. We’ve turned exactly that into drawings, a budget, and a built home — over a hundred homes in our time. There’s no plan library here to choose from, and nothing you bring is too early or too unformed.

The journey

Here’s what the process looks like.

Building a home isn’t just about the end result — it’s the journey. We’ll be working together for months, and that time should be something you enjoy and feel good about at every step. The gallery is where the finished homes live; this is about what it’s like to get there.

This short film, made with the Overturf family in the home we built together, shows what that feels like — and below it, more of our clients in their own words, every quote exactly as they gave it.

A short documentary filmed with a Stauffer & Sons client about their home.

Where we build

From the Front Range foothills to the southern ranch country.

Colorado Springs is home — and we work as a custom home builder in Colorado Springs and the communities around it: new builds, fire rebuilds, and whole-home remodels. If the lot is worth the drive, it’s worth a conversation.

Explore Everywhere We Build

How it works

One team, from the first conversation to the day you move in.

  1. 1
    First ConversationYour land, how you want to live, what you plan to spend — and an honest read on fit.
  2. 2
    DesignThe people who'll build it help shape it, so the design and the budget stay in the same room.
  3. 3
    Budget & ContractReal numbers against the real drawing. You see the trade-offs before you commit.
  4. 4
    BuildOne team, one point of contact, from foundation to final finish.
  5. 5
    Move-in & BeyondWe walk it with you, make it right, and stay reachable after you've moved in.
Exterior view of the McLeod residence in Castle Rock, a Stauffer & Sons custom home
The people who price your home are the people who drew it — that’s why the design and the budget never drift apart.

The full process, phase by phase →

Every intro call ends one of three ways

  1. 1We hit it off and start talking design.
  2. 2I tell you honestly what kind of builder you actually need and point you to someone in my network — so you don't have to vet 20 builders.
  3. 3It's too early, and I give you homework.

Either way, you get 30 years of building distilled into 30 minutes.