Custom home builder · Wasatch Back
Twenty-four years building architect-led custom homes across Park City, Deer Valley, and the Heber Valley.
60 minutes with Owen Alder, our principal architect. Free, no design fee until you sign, and you leave with a real budget range for your lot.
87
Custom Homes Delivered
24 Yrs
Building the Wasatch Back
10-Year
Structural Warranty
100%
Custom — No Pre-Built Plans
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.
See the 6-phase process
RenovateDown-to-studs reimagining of legacy Park City homes. We rebuild the bones, keep the character.
Browse finished homes
LotSite analysis, view corridors, septic and well, HOA review. We help you buy the right lot — or pass on the wrong one.
Get a free lot review
ManageWeekly walks, transparent budget, single point of contact. The construction phase is the part most builders hide. We don't.
How we run a buildBuild Scopes & Investment
Every Alder & Stone home begins with an honest conversation about budget, scope, and what the land allows. These ranges give you a starting point.
Tier 1
The Foundation
$625
per sq ft built
4,000–5,500 sq ft on a defined budget. Architect-led design plus our base specification: KitchenAid appliances, Andersen 400 windows, quartz counters, Hardie and stone exterior, standing-seam metal roof.
Price this tier for my lotTier 2
The Heritage
$825
per sq ft built
5,500–7,500 sq ft and our most-selected tier. Sub-Zero and Wolf appliances, 8-inch wide-plank floors, Sierra Pacific wood-clad windows, Lutron whole-home lighting, custom millwork throughout.
Price this tier for my lotTier 3
The Bespoke
$1,100+
per sq ft built
7,500+ sq ft, no catalog. Quarry-direct stone, reclaimed timber, European window systems, hand-poured concrete, and a full-time on-site interior designer through close-out.
Price this tier for my lotRates are per square foot of finished construction. Land, soft costs, and furnishings are separate; most projects land between $1.8M and $7M all-in. Mixing tiers across rooms is normal and welcome. See the full pricing breakdown, lot by lot →
Portfolio
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
Custom homes built to last — browse our completed projects
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.
Map my build to this timelineDiscovery
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.
See it in action
3-minute overview of our build process
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.
From raw lot to move-in ready — see what Alder & Stone craftsmanship looks like at every stage.
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
Where We Build
Park City, Deer Valley, and the Heber Valley. The crew lives here, the trades are local, and we drive past every home we have built every week of the year. We do not build outside this map.
Common questions
Blog
Timeline math, lot due diligence, and the budget conversations we have before a contract is ever signed
Most clients who break ground in October are in by July. Here's the month-by-month timeline we built our process around, and the two phases that always take longer than people expect.
Read MoreEight checks we run on every lot before signing a build contract — drainage, percolation, easement creep, and the soil cores most realtors don't run.
Read MorePlan a build
Free download
22 questions to ask before signing with any builder — plus a room-by-room spec checklist.
Tell us about your project
Sixty minutes with our principal architect. Walk your lot, frame the program, leave with a real budget range and a realistic move-in month. No deck, no upsell, no design fee until you sign.
