About
Alan Wolff
President and General Contractor
Alan has been drawing houses since he was a child. Floor plans, mostly — laid out on whatever paper was around, rearranged, and perfected.
He started A.D. Wolff Custom Homes in 1980 and has been further perfecting them ever since. The difference now is that the sketches get redrawn dozens of times before anyone breaks ground, and each redraw answers a question either Alan or a client has raised. Where the morning light lands. How to optimally capture every picturesque view. Where people actually gather. Whether a hallway is doing any work at all.
That back-and-forth is the method, and is no small part of the job. What comes out of it is a house with no wasted square footage — and no cramped rooms either, which people assume are the same trade-off. They aren't, if the plan is right. Vaulted or very tall ceilings, long sightlines, rooms that flow effortlessly into one another. These elements all define an A.D. Wolff home.
“He was building open floor plans in the foothills before anyone was asking for them by name.”
Matt Laffey
Supervisor and General Contractor
Matt is Alan's business partner and Project Supervisor.
He started in construction at twelve, working with his uncles — both home builders — and stayed with them until he was twenty-four. Those twelve years gave him carpentry and framing, the two trades everything else on a job site sits on top of.
When he moved to Colorado in 2007 he widened that base, taking on tile installation, painting, and basic plumbing, and learning what it takes to hand a finished room to an owner rather than a framed shell.
For the past eight years he has worked alongside Alan, building general contracting knowledge on top of the trades he already had, while still framing, finishing, and remodeling with his own hands. It means the person supervising the crew has actually done the work himself — he knows how long a task actually takes and what it looks like when it's done properly.
Every A.D. Wolff project Matt supervises gets that experience from the ground up.
How we work
01
The plan comes first
A floor plan gets redrawn as many times as it takes. Dozens, on most houses. It is easier to move a wall on paper than after it is framed, and it is the only way to end up with a house that fits the people in it rather than one that merely accommodates them.
02
No wasted space
Every square foot is doing something, and none of it feels tight. Spaciousness is a function of ceiling height, sightline, and how rooms connect — not of adding square footage [and ultimate cost] to the plan.
03
Built here, for here
Forty-six years on the same ground. Foothills sites come with slope, rock, wind, snow load, and access problems that flatland builders learn the hard way. We already know this ground by heart.