“We select the builder based on work they’ve done,” says architect Richard Sherer of Deep River. He adds that the homeowners, Dorothy and Ken Lamm, had forwarded to them their “short list” of builders to interview. For his part, Ken praises the architect. “We had an architect who could talk to people,” he says. “Some architects are dreamers; Richard is a design/build architect—he never designed anything that didn’t work.”