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DESIGN. BUILD. DREAM.
Learn MoreJLF Architects has forged a masterful team of passionate architects and dedicated builders. Framed by trust and respect, the JLF design process empowers all involved in the pursuit of perfection: From the JLF architects who draw upon their decades spent designing treasured residences steeped in place to Big-D Signature, which translates the firm’s commercial credentials into custom residential solutions. This collaborative process makes dreamers out of everyone: architects, builders, and clients.
Creating Buildings That Redefine Home
JLF Architects has forged a masterful team of passionate architects and dedicated builders. Framed by trust and respect, the JLF design process empowers all involved in the pursuit of perfection: From the JLF architects who draw upon their decades spent designing treasured residences steeped in place to Big-D Signature, which translates the firm’s commercial credentials into custom residential solutions. This collaborative process makes dreamers out of everyone: architects, builders, and clients.
PASION TO DESIGN
Award-winning architects inspired by site
Your dream is our dream: To be present in place, to build a legacy house. Place pulled us West, and place now takes us across the country in pursuit of our clients’ residential dreams. We strive to articulate a sense of natural presence not uprooted or planted, but rather grown from the site itself. A house at once historic and true to its own history. Like nature, we evolve our designs, seeking mastery and refined expression. Ultimately, the house feels inextricable from setting, embedded in its surrounds, a building that has always been and will always be. A building as wholly Western as the mountains themselves.
INTEGRITY TO BUILD
Luxury residences refined by craftsmanship
Architecture would remain a conceptual art if not for master craftsmen. Channeling the ardor of medieval guilds, our custom designs grow from the finely-tuned alignment of artisans. Only by building our process on collaboration and trust rather than conflict can we achieve our goals of mastery and refinement. Our award-winning team is unified in vision and values, ready to realize every detail of your dream house: A lodge door and frame as deftly crafted as a clock dial, a Montana barn as patiently plotted as a cathedral.
FREEDOM TO DREAM
Driven to achieve our collective best
Our custom designs become greater than the sum of their parts, greater still than the residential dreams that seeded them. A leap of faith sets it all in motion; you place your confidence in us, and we, in turn, channel our experience into manifesting your personal vision. Synched in ambition, together we establish an ethos of complete freedom to be our best selves and do our best work. This trust—made possible by true collaboration—ultimately takes on profound meaning, elevating itself through presence of place.
FREEDOM TO DREAM
Our designs thus become greater than the sum of their parts, greater still than the dreams that seeded them. A leap of faith sets it all in motion; you place your confidence in us, and we, in turn, channel our experience into manifesting your imaginings. Synched in ambition, together we establish an ethos of complete freedom to be our best selves and do our best work. This trust made possible by true collaboration, ultimately takes on profound meaning, elevating life itself through presence of place.
DREAM HOMES GALLERY
The legacy houses we create exude the gravitas they do because of our bedrock in collaboration and creativity. Every room represents an intimate conversation, every element an earnest exploration, every detail a custom solution—all the result of design vision in complete alignment with construction skill.
We build your dream home based on our experience as dreamer designers.
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THE ANVIL
“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” Johannes Brahms
LEADERSHIP
Our history hewn by place and experience. JLF began in a log farmhouse on the banks of the Yellowstone River nearly four decades ago. An authentic setting for authentic work. The buildings Paul Bertelli and Jonathan L. Foote built blended into the Montana landscape as if grown from the sites themselves, framed by salvaged century-old barn timbers and floorboards. Though the scope and scale of the firm has grown, the core values remain the same: honesty of materials, respect for regional context, deference to scale, commitment to comfort, and allegiance to simplicity. Reclaimed wood and stacked stone remain hallmarks of JLF designs, although now, contemporary intrusions of steel and glass add contrast. Still, a sophisticated sparsity pervades, a serenity felt, not forced.
IN THE PRESS
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