While not native to Colorado — the Doziers were both born and raised in Austin, Texas — they’d long loved visiting the Colorado mountains before deciding to make the region their permanent home. And they knew right away that the homes they designed in Colorado had to be different from those they designed in Austin. Whatever they did, the couple wanted it to honor the local landscape and its natural beauty. “We use a lot of reclaimed timber on a lot of our projects from old barns, old cabins in the area that have been torn down or collected,” Ben Dozier explained. “There’s always a sense of that somewhere on a lot of our projects, and then native stones, natural woods that are in this area.”
The Doziers’ goal, Ben said, was to create spaces that captured everything they love about the area around them. “There’s an appreciation of Colorado and the mountains and the landscape, the pine trees and the aspens and the river,” he said. “We really try to tie into that with that natural, warm, welcome feeling when you come here.”
