A home designed for you
We design around how your family actually lives, including accessibility and aging-in-place needs, not a template pulled off a shelf.
Now rebuilding after the 2026 wildfires
Helping homeowners rebuild after disaster
We design your home and prepare the permit-ready drawings you need to rebuild, and we stay with you from the first phone call through construction.
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Permit-readyDesign & construction documents
Start to finishGuidance through the whole rebuild
Since 2020Proudly serving the Pacific Northwest
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I need help
If you lost your home or business to fire, flood, or another disaster in the Pacific Northwest, we can help you work out what comes next. Start wherever you are.
We respond to every inquiry.
NW Rebuild Project brings together architects, engineers, drafters, designers, volunteers, and other good-hearted people who provide permit-ready construction documents and practical support free of charge to disaster-affected homeowners, alongside paid professional design services whose profits fund that pro bono work.
From Drawing to Doorstep
See your home before it is built
Every family we work with sees their home in three dimensions long before a foundation is poured. It makes the decisions easier, the surprises fewer, and the drawings better.
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What You Receive
Real drawings. Real guidance. No invoice.
Qualifying homeowners receive the same professional work a paying client would, prepared by licensed and practicing professionals who volunteer their time.
Permit-ready documents
A complete construction document set your building department will accept and your contractor can build from and bid accurately.
Someone to call
Rebuilding is long and confusing. We help you sort through permitting, contractors, and grant programs you may not know exist.
A more resilient rebuild
We talk through fire-hardening, defensible space, and durability choices so the home you rebuild is better prepared than the one you lost.
How It Works
Twelve steps, four honest phases
The path from your first message to a finished home is long, so we have mapped it. You will always know which step you are on and what happens next.
Getting started
- Review & follow up
- Evaluate what we can do
- Build a resource path
Understanding your site
- Meet at the site
- Capture needs & resilience
Designing your home
- Schematic design
- Talk through the first design
- Design development
Documents & building
- Construction documents
- Permit set & contractor search
- Permitting & construction administration
- Completion, alumni & records
Families We Have Worked With
Every project here is someone's home
Some past clients chose not to make their rebuild public. The homes and stories shown here are the projects where permission was given to share the photos and the story.
Detroit, Oregon
The Warden Family Home
From a cleared lot to a finished home, with our team on site at groundbreaking and again at completion.
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Detroit, Oregon
The Boyes Family Home
An open-concept plan drawn to keep clear sightlines across the home for deaf family members, with aging-in-place details throughout.
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Leaburg, Oregon
The Carrion Family Home
Permit-ready drawings that let the family move forward with confidence and get accurate bids from contractors.
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What families say
After losing everything in the fires, we didn't know where to start. NW Rebuild Project stepped in and designed us a home that's better than what we had — and it didn't cost us a dime for the design work.
The team was professional, responsive, and genuinely cared about our situation. They helped us navigate the permitting process and connected us to a grant we didn't even know existed.
The drawings were permit-ready, and the professionals involved helped us move forward with confidence.
The People Behind It
Professionals who give their time away
Designers, drafters, interior designers, and the people who keep the organization running. None of this work is billed to a family.
Senior Designers
Charlie Carr
Doug EaglebearArchitectural Drafters
Alex HolbrookArchitectural Drafter
Bri MonsonArchitectural Drafter
Kevin RootStructural Drafter · Technology Coordinator
Knarik VanOrmanArchitectural DrafterEngineer in Training (EIT) · BS Electrical Engineering
Marcia L BergArchitectural DrafterSustainable Design Certificate
Noah AhnArchitectural & Structural Engineer · Mass Timber SpecialistPh.D., PE (Oregon), PMP, LEED AP
Praveen BaduArchitectural Drafter & DesignerAssoc. AIA
Interior Designers
Amanda Davis
Kyra Littlefield
Michelle Mueller
Sara Mohamed
Vicky FuentesHR & Administrative Operations
Jim AndersonOur Sponsors
Organizations that make this possible
Our sponsors provide the tools, technology, and financial support that let us deliver professional design services to disaster-affected families at no cost. We are grateful to each of them.
Support the Work
Help the next family rebuild
Donations pay for the things volunteered hours cannot: permit fees, printing, site travel, software, and the everyday costs of keeping a small nonprofit running.
You will also find us out in the community at fairs, markets, and Portland Modern Homes events. Some of those are donation partnerships, others are outreach and fundraising.
Start Here
Ready when you are. Even if that is barely.
You do not need drawings, a budget, a contractor, or a plan. You do not need to know whether you qualify. Tell us what happened and where you are, and we will take the next step with you.
We respond to every inquiry. info@nwrebuild.org
