them, 'What do you really love? What moves you?'"explains Bolender, who has her master's in architecture from Columbia University. "Sometimes we have to draw it out of them. Often we have to piece together a picture, if they can't put it into words."
Influenced by a variety of architectural movements, including the vernacular tradition, Arts and Crafts, and modernism, Schade and Bolender work in a range of styles, as is shown by a slew of recent projects, including the restoration of an 1830's townhouse on 3rd Street; an addition - master bedroom suite, two new wings and a three-car garage - to a 1940's Pennsylvania stone house in Bryn Mawr, the total renovation of a 4,000-square-foot Rittenhouse Square apartment; and the building of a new house in New Hampshire.
"Designing houses from the ground up is the scariest, but the most rewarding," says Schade. But whatever the project, adds Bolender, "We like to design spaces for people that make them feel good."
FEE STRUCTURE: Schade and Bolender charge a design fee based on an hourly rate, but give a total estimate based on the size of the project; charge a documents fee (plans, etc.) based on a percentage of the construction costs; and bill hourly for construction administration, which includes job meetings, site visits, etc.
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