Olsen Associates has over thirty years of experience working in the Puget Sound region, and a tradition of creating residential environments on a broad range of scales… new homes, remodels, multi-family buildings, and residential communities.

We start from the premise that a home is a small community, and that a community is a large home. The need for a range of spaces, from personal to public and peaceful to active, is true of both homes and communities. There must be comfortable and gracious flow from place to place, with points of interest and places of rest along the way. There must be generous connections to outdoor spaces so that the natural world is integrated as a fully realized part of the living experience.

Our work is driven by the creation of memorable spatial experience and comfortable shelter with connectedness to the surrounding and natural contexts. Our designs are an aesthetic mix of historic and modern sensibilities, ordered but casual; tuned to the personalities and lives of the occupants; and attentive to function, durability, longevity and budget.

In projects ranging from custom homes to community plans, we offer our clients a complete understanding of the principles of placemaking. We capture the spirit of the client and the language of the setting to create compelling living environments.