Mottram Architecture was founded in 2009 by Emily Mottram to provide soulful, eco-friendly, pretty (damn) good homes. With all the uncertainty facing our world right now, it’s even more important to provide healthy, efficient, and durable homes. Spending 100% of our time at home has taught us things about our homes and ourselves that we were too busy to notice before. How healthy is the air inside our homes? What spaces do we gravitate to? Is anyone else feeling stressed and overwhelmed by their homes? Too big, too small, too unhealthy? We are missing our community, our world outside of our homes, our connection to the earth and others. Providing quality homes that are durable but also thoughtful is the purest form of joy for our clients. We believe that square footage is just a number someone told you that you had to have. Instead we plan spaces for how you want to feel in them and how you actually use them. Not a tiny house person, we are not asking you to be. Not a minimalist, that's fine too. We ask our clients to join us on the journey of fulfilling your dreams. We focus on the health of our homes, the health of our planet, and the connection to the life inside and outside of our homes that our clients so deeply crave.
Sustainability
Emily is a HERS Rater, Architect, building science educator, the host of a podcast on building science, energy efficiency and female entrepreneurship. She also appears weekly on the BS* + Beer Show (*building science) which takes a wide array of building science topics and presents them to homeowners, builders, architects, and other building science professionals.
“We interviewed a number of architects that build energy efficient homes here in Maine. They had to understand our needs and design requirements, which didn’t conform to the standard home design in the area. Emily knew how to listen, she knew how to explain the process, and she was always available to explain the details. She was also an invaluable go-between helping us work with our building contractor. We highly recommend her.
— Linda Berger”
“ I believe that there are three things that one looks for when trying to find an architect.
1.Someone that’s talented.
2.Someone that has been in business for a while.
3.Someone that is designing the kind of homes that you are interested in.
Oh, and 4. Someone who is personable.
In my opinion Emily from Mottram Architecture encompasses all of these things.
— Lyman Smith”
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