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Services Provided
Cascadian is ready to responsibly develop your property. Whether you’re looking for eco-friendly land reshaping, or need an experienced professional to build your dream home — we’ve got the tools and experience to guarantee success. Browse through our services, and get in touch for an estimate today.
Design
A Design/Build Construction Company.
We offer a fast and affordable design service, taking your ideas and turning them into beautiful efficient green structures. Sketchup programs are used to create 3D models for ease of modification over email, and we finish with CAD/Sketchup building plan sets.
The next phase, if applicable, is guiding the plan set through engineering and making any last changes to suit the engineers calculations. The final design product is then ready for submittal for permits.
The design process: Initial consultation overviewing your interests and needs. Cascadian will then conceptualize your project into a 3D model. Followed by editing and refining of your chosen layouts, window and door placements, and exterior/interiors options.
Next we create a unique set of plans with expanded interior/exterior 3D models and views with scaled CAD structural building details. After we have a finished set of plans, we are able to bid your project and schedule the build.
Shop Built structures: We build undercover to keep materials free from weather impact during the construction process. We find incredible efficiencies building in a shop environment with all are tools and supplies ready and at hand. We save time and fuel by not building in the field and we are committed to doing as much as possible from our shop without bringing the construction to your site.
Cascadian structures can be designed to utilize alternative products such as solar and wind energy, rain water catchment, greywater bioremediation, and humanure systems. Typically our projects are designed to plug into standard systems that are already in place at the house site, but we can design off grid stand-alone projects as well.
Permaculture is our guiding philosophy; it is defined as simulating and directly utilizing the patterns and features witnessed in natural ecosystems. The best long-term systems truly support one another and all aid each other in maintaining a proper balance leading to harmony, diversity and resilience. We attempt to maximize these design patterns when we place structures on land, build habitat for wildlife and your family, and create gardens and raise plants to feed us and mitigate our impacts and footprints. We can build a beautiful and regenerative future in how we house and develop our lives, of which we have an integral role to play. We can create this future by mimicking what we learn from these wild and natural ecosystems, weaving a strong resilient relationship, of which we are the steward and caretaker.
We offer a fast and affordable design service, taking your ideas and turning them into beautiful efficient green structures. Sketchup programs are used to create 3D models for ease of modification over email, and we finish with CAD/Sketchup building plan sets.
The next phase, if applicable, is guiding the plan set through engineering and making any last changes to suit the engineers calculations. The final design product is then ready for submittal for permits.
The design process: Initial consultation overviewing your interests and needs. Cascadian will then conceptualize your project into a 3D model. Followed by editing and refining of your chosen layouts, window and door placements, and exterior/interiors options.
Next we create a unique set of plans with expanded interior/exterior 3D models and views with scaled CAD structural building details. After we have a finished set of plans, we are able to bid your project and schedule the build.
Shop Built structures: We build undercover to keep materials free from weather impact during the construction process. We find incredible efficiencies building in a shop environment with all are tools and supplies ready and at hand. We save time and fuel by not building in the field and we are committed to doing as much as possible from our shop without bringing the construction to your site.
Cascadian structures can be designed to utilize alternative products such as solar and wind energy, rain water catchment, greywater bioremediation, and humanure systems. Typically our projects are designed to plug into standard systems that are already in place at the house site, but we can design off grid stand-alone projects as well.
Permaculture is our guiding philosophy; it is defined as simulating and directly utilizing the patterns and features witnessed in natural ecosystems. The best long-term systems truly support one another and all aid each other in maintaining a proper balance leading to harmony, diversity and resilience. We attempt to maximize these design patterns when we place structures on land, build habitat for wildlife and your family, and create gardens and raise plants to feed us and mitigate our impacts and footprints. We can build a beautiful and regenerative future in how we house and develop our lives, of which we have an integral role to play. We can create this future by mimicking what we learn from these wild and natural ecosystems, weaving a strong resilient relationship, of which we are the steward and caretaker.
Excavation - Orcas Island Only
Working with our Islands glorious natural features, we craft beauty into the landscape and keep the elemental flows in focus with our Permaculture mindset. We rarely ever use burn piles on our projects, but rather compost, chip and use materials from clearing land(for homes) in creative ways. Returning carbon back to the soil, and minimizing our footprints and impacts.
We have 20 years experience working with Orcas soils, trees, and rock. We enjoy working with boulders and sculpting rock walls, creative placements of stones and shaping the land for use in food production, beauty, play, and fire prevention.
We have 20 years experience working with Orcas soils, trees, and rock. We enjoy working with boulders and sculpting rock walls, creative placements of stones and shaping the land for use in food production, beauty, play, and fire prevention.
Cabins and Outbuildings
Built to universal building codes, and meeting or exceed Washington State energy codes (insulation values).
Up to 12’ wide at the walls and up to 14’ at the eaves for complete shop-built single pod cabins. Or, 14' wide bodies with large eave/overhang SIP panel roofs installed on site; creating additional storage and rain coverage for firewood, bicycles, kayaks, saunas and more...Up to 40’ in length.
One or more buildings can be designed to interlock forming larger structures and single family homes. If needed, on Orcas Island only, we do offer site-built general contracting services if the design doesn't allow for a shop built frame.
Cabins can also be two level structures with lighter weight sections craned together on site. There are many creative uses of flat roofs including: roof top greenhouses and gardens, decks, bedroom pods, saunas, yoga/meditation spaces, or writing studios.
Our cabins can be mounted on engineered concrete piers and footing, or rest on simple paving stones. We utilize pressure treated beam skids up to 24' and steel I-beams for lengths up to 40'. Commonly used as offices, guest houses, art studios, writer’s retreats, extra bedrooms, yoga and meditation studios, and workshops.
Open floor plans for adaptable use to detailed finish carpentry, we can develop your personal homestead to support your lifestyle and bring you closer to the natural environment around us here in the San Juans.
Including: timber greenhouses, saunas, storage sheds, bathhouses, and agricultural buildings.
Up to 12’ wide at the walls and up to 14’ at the eaves for complete shop-built single pod cabins. Or, 14' wide bodies with large eave/overhang SIP panel roofs installed on site; creating additional storage and rain coverage for firewood, bicycles, kayaks, saunas and more...Up to 40’ in length.
One or more buildings can be designed to interlock forming larger structures and single family homes. If needed, on Orcas Island only, we do offer site-built general contracting services if the design doesn't allow for a shop built frame.
Cabins can also be two level structures with lighter weight sections craned together on site. There are many creative uses of flat roofs including: roof top greenhouses and gardens, decks, bedroom pods, saunas, yoga/meditation spaces, or writing studios.
Our cabins can be mounted on engineered concrete piers and footing, or rest on simple paving stones. We utilize pressure treated beam skids up to 24' and steel I-beams for lengths up to 40'. Commonly used as offices, guest houses, art studios, writer’s retreats, extra bedrooms, yoga and meditation studios, and workshops.
Open floor plans for adaptable use to detailed finish carpentry, we can develop your personal homestead to support your lifestyle and bring you closer to the natural environment around us here in the San Juans.
Including: timber greenhouses, saunas, storage sheds, bathhouses, and agricultural buildings.
Custom Homes, Additions, and General Contracting
Beyond our shop built and delivered structures we do take on various construction projects on Orcas Island from Custom homes, additions and decks.
We generally don’t build homes larger than 2,000 sq ft as a rule. But, do enjoy building clusters of living spaces to develop community.
We generally don’t build homes larger than 2,000 sq ft as a rule. But, do enjoy building clusters of living spaces to develop community.
We build custom projects here on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington State and can delivery our cabins anywhere in the Pacific Northwest. Contact us to explore the possibilities.
Our products are built with quality and longevity in mind and are designed to be healthy to live in and blend with the natural environment.
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