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House Calls, Inc. is not a huge,
multi-national home plan company
trying to sell a million sets
of plans this year. House Calls,
Inc. is
a down-home, owner-in-the-store,
New England home design firm.
When you choose House Calls, Inc. as your design company you're
getting 30 plus years of professional
building experience in each design.
The business is owned and operated by my wife Donna, and myself.
My wife runs the clerical end
of our business, answering the
phone, scheduling appointments,
and keeping me “on task and focused”.
I am the sole designer in our
office and I personally design
each and every home plan.
HCI is located in Windham Maine,
about five miles west of the Portland
line on Route 302.
Our History
After serving in the military as a young man, my interests
in art and design led me to pursue
a career as an architect. Unfortunately,
attending an expensive design
school (at the time) was beyond
my family's means. So instead,
using previous studies and experience
in the building trades, I went
to work in the carpentry field.
After about four years working in the trades and watching one
boss after another go out of business,
I decided that I could do better
on my own. So, I went into the
construction business myself.
Right from the start I designed
all the projects I built. It didn't
matter if it was a garage, an
addition, or a new home. I took
to home design naturally. I used
my field experience of how buildings
were supposed to be put together,
and my artistic talent to produce
cost effective, functional, New
England home designs.
Throughout the next 25 years, my experience and my construction
business grew. I built a respected
business with a large base of
happy clients and friends. About
15 years ago I put my drafting
board away and invested in a Computer
Aided Drawing system. I then taught
myself how to design homes in
the computer world.
After I became proficient designing homes in the computer,
the word started spreading, and
it wasn't long before I was designing
homes for other builders, and
for retail clients as well. It
got to the point that I realized
I couldn't continue building homes
and designing for others too.
So about 10 years ago I made the
decision to hang up my hammer
and leave the building business
(but not my experiences) behind.
Life for me has come full circle now. As I sit at my desk and
design new homes for my clients,
I cant help but think back to
my younger days, when I wanted
to be an architect, but didn't
have the money to go to school.
Call it providence, call it luck,
call it hard work. Sometimes life
does work out the way we want
it do. (Thank you Lord)
As a child my parents always impressed on me that "any
job worth doing was worth doing
right". That was their interpretation
of Ecc. 9:10 - "whatever
your hands find to do, do it with
all your might." I have tried
to live by this simple philosophy
all my life and I try to apply
it to everything I do. This simple
philosophy has shown through in
the quality of work I produced
as a builder, and in my work now
as a home designer.
Our business philosophy is short and simple. We will do our
best to provide you with a quality
set of plans for your needs, at
a fair and honest price, as quickly
as possible.
If you consider House Calls, Inc. to design your new home,
we pledge to do everything possible
to turn your dreams into a reality,
and add your name to our growing
list of happy customers. Contact
us anytime for more information.
Thanks for taking the time to
read this and God bless.
John & Donna Call
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