Custom home builder · Wasatch Back
Twenty-four years building character-driven custom homes across Park City, Deer Valley, and the Heber Valley. Architect-led design, single-source project management, finishes selected on your own terms.
Recognized by
87
Homes delivered
across Park City, Deer Valley, Heber Valley
1.2M
Sq ft built
custom new build + whole-home renovation
24 yrs
In the Wasatch Back
founded 2001 by Owen Alder and Daniel Stone
12
Industry awards
NAHB, Mountain Living, Utah Style & Design
What we do
A single integrated practice across design, land, construction, and project management — so the inevitable mid-build question never gets handed off to a vendor the homeowner has never met.
BuildArchitect-led design, integrated construction. One team from first sketch through the day you hang the door key.
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RenovateDown-to-studs reimagining of legacy Park City homes. We rebuild the bones, keep the character.
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LotSite analysis, view corridors, septic and well, HOA review. We help you buy the right lot — or pass on the wrong one.
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ManageWeekly walks, transparent budget, single point of contact. The construction phase is the part most builders hide. We don't.
ExplorePortfolio
A selection of finished homes from the past three build seasons. Each one is a one-off — no plan was repeated, no homeowner saw the same set of finishes.
Mountain Contemporary2024Old Town · Park City
Modern2024Deer Valley · Empire Pass
Traditional2023Heber Valley · Red Ledges
Mountain Contemporary2023Park City · Glenwild
Mountain Contemporary2022Park City · Promontory
Modern2022Park City · Silver Creek
Our 6-step process
A predictable sequence built across 87 finished homes. Each phase has a defined deliverable, a published timeline, and an open-book budget update. Custom homes don't have to be the chaos story you've heard.
Schedule a consultationDiscovery
Weeks 1–4
First-meeting walk-through of your program: how you live, who lives there, the budget you can actually defend. We listen more than we pitch.
Land
Months 1–3
Lot analysis if you have one, scout-and-acquire if you don't. Soils, slope, view corridors, septic, well, easements, HOA review.
Design
Months 3–8
Architect-led schematic, design development, construction documents. Three revision rounds built in. Renders before you commit.
Permitting
Months 7–10
Park City and Wasatch County submittal, engineering review, agency back-and-forth. We carry the file so you don't take the call.
Build
Months 10–22
Single superintendent on site daily, weekly homeowner walks, transparent open-book budget. The construction phase is the part most builders hide.
Move-in
Month 22+
Walk-through punch list, one-year warranty walk, mechanical training. You hold the keys; we stay close for the first heating season.
Three material tiers
Three published specification tiers let you frame budget early — and let us tell you, plainly, what each level includes. Mix-and-match is welcome; most homes blend two tiers across rooms.
Standard finishes
Our base specification — designed to feel high-end on day one and hold its value across a decade.
Starts at $625/sq ft built. Final price set after Design Development.
Premium finishes
Our most-selected tier. Wider material library, custom millwork, integrated tech, and the welcome rooms we are best known for.
Starts at $825/sq ft built. Includes the welcome-room finishes our buyers ask for by name.
Bespoke selection
No catalog. Materials sourced one-off — Italian marble, reclaimed timber, hand-poured concrete, glass walls. The home becomes the brief.
Starts at $1,100/sq ft built. Concierge buyer experience throughout.
The team
Principal Architect / Founder
Twenty-four years designing mountain homes in the Wasatch. AIA, registered in Utah and Idaho. Co-founded the firm in 2001 after eight years with a Sun Valley practice.
Project Lead / Founder
On-site every Wednesday across every active build. Construction Management degree from Utah State, NAHB Master Builder, second-generation Park City contractor.
Construction Manager
Runs daily site operations across our active builds. Joined the firm in 2014 after seven years at a Sundance-resort construction lead. LEED AP.
Interiors Lead
Selects, sources, and stages every finish across our active homes. Pratt Institute interior design, joined Alder & Stone in 2018 from a Manhattan residential practice.
Homeowner voices
We ask permission to publish testimonials only after the one-year warranty walk — once the home has lived through a full Wasatch winter and the first guests have stayed.
We interviewed five builders. Owen was the only one who walked the lot before quoting. Two years later we live in the home he sketched on the back of a napkin that morning.
K. & M. Holloway
The weekly walks were not theater. Daniel and Marisol caught two errors we would have missed at hand-off — and made the GC fix them on the spot. That alone paid for the project management fee.
R. & L. Chen
We had a complicated lot and an HOA that was making it harder. Alder & Stone walked us through what could be permitted, what couldn't, and saved us from spending eighteen months on a design that would never pass.
J. Mendel
Common questions
Tell us about your project
Sixty minutes with our principal architect. Walk your lot, frame the program, get a candid view on feasibility and budget. No deck, no upsell, no obligation.
