Philosophy

Creating Architectural Masterpieces in Harmony With Life
Established in 1986, Harwick Homes has a proven track record of happy clients and success in the building industry, which even in today’s market places us at the top of our industry. Today, with more than 200 homes completed in the greater Naples area, Harwick Homes continues to set new standards in home design and construction. We maintain outstanding relationships with many developers in our community as well as real estate professional who know they can count on us to deliver upon what we promise today and well into the future. Harwick Homes’ reputation for quality, innovation and excellence has placed them among the highly select group of builders whose homes appear in the area’s most exclusive neighborhoods.

Harwick Homes has earned the highest level of respect from both clients and industry leaders. Each year, the company’s excellence in residential design, building, architecture and other disciplines is evaluated by teams of industry professionals who select the best of the best among award competitors. Harwick consistently earns a range of awards from professional associations, from respected recognitions in Southwest Florida as well to honors that are among the most prestigious in the nation.

Harwick Homes has distinguished itself from the mainstream not only by what they do in creating luxury homes but how they do it. The relationships cultivated with clients represent the company’s cornerstone philosophy, that clients are the most important people in the team’s professional lives. The Harwick team believes building a home is a major life event, and requests from clients who wish to be part of the process are both welcomed and honored. Site tours keep clients in touch with progress and quality of construction. Clients are invited to accompany any of the team for visits during work hours, which allow them to also meet the company’s four full-time, state-certified field superintendents. Access to every team member, site tours on request and personal attention to clients’ needs and preferences – all part of Harwick Homes’ passion to exceed expectations.

Relationships, Respect, Responsibility

At Harwick Homes, we believe our responsibility to clients centers on taking responsibility not only for our work but also that of the people who plan, design and build the homes that wear our name. We have established a reputation for respecting our clients’ time and the investments they make in one of life’s most important choices.

We enjoy long-term relationships with the area’s most reputable subcontractors and suppliers. With the long-term relationships we have nurtured over many years, we enjoy select pricing from our subcontractors and suppliers because of our reputation of paying on time and in full for services and materials provided to our projects. Harwick Homes’ superior reputation as a quality builder offers us the latitude to be highly selective when we evaluate prospective members of the team. Our staff shares our commitment to maintaining efficient operations, and the selection of our field staff is based on quality of work, industry experience and educational background.

Harwick Homes’ cost-sensitive, efficient and quality-oriented approach means the process of translating dreams into reality is both effortless and enjoyable.

The cornerstone of our business reaches beyond customer service. Our mission is customer satisfaction, and we meet the mission through lasting relationships built on a foundation of respect and responsibility.

Celebrate Life, Capture the Lifestyle

Harwick Homes has made an art of capturing clients’ dreams and translating them into luxury homes with personalities as unique as their owners. The perfect home is a sanctuary that celebrates life and complements the lifestyle the homeowners have chosen as their own.

Each custom and customized home by Harwick Homes grows out of a series of meetings and conversations with clients who share what’s important in their lives and their lifestyle choices – casual “cocooning,” outdoor entertaining, formal dining, evening receptions, frequent guests and poolside parties or intimate gatherings, living areas for home entertainment, private spaces for personal time. Every lifestyle element and preference adds to the character that makes a residence a home.

Harwick Homes blends the best of life’s offerings with the unique lifestyle of every homeowner. We capture your dreams so you can celebrate life and all that you have worked for.

Building in Concert With Nature

Harwick Homes, one of Southwest Florida’s earliest builders to be “Build Green” certified, demonstrates an unsurpassed respect for the environment in every home we create. The principles of green building guide each stage of the process with innovative ways to build homes in concert with nature.

The delicate balance of designing luxury homes while respecting nature begins with our concept that every professional associated with the design of a home works together as a team – Harwick Homes, our residential building designer or architect plus our landscape, interior and lighting designers. Each brings to the process an expertise that is integral to building a work of residential art. At the same time, each home reflects meticulous attention to the elements of green building, from high-efficiency insulation and heating and cooling systems selected for individual needs to the highest quality appliances and help in choosing materials that promote indoor air quality. Every landscape/hardscape embraces and enhances the site’s natural beauty. Native trees provide beauty and shade, while wildlife habitats – a gift to nature – adds charm to the home site.

At Harwick Homes, green building the luxury lifestyle is a natural.

Designing Your Home

Our Perfect Plan to Your Perfect Home. Designing the perfect home begins with an intimate understanding of lifestyle choices and the personal ways a home will be used. This profile is as unique as the homes we create, residences that may be custom designed, customized by borrowing elements from existing floor plans, or built according to your plans or ones selected from our extensive portfolio of model homes.

Harwick Homes enjoys a long-term relationship with a team of professionals who were chosen for their extraordinary work and unparalleled customer service.

The design process begins with two of the team – Harwick Homes and the residential building designer or architect who prepares a floor plan and exterior elevations selected by the home buyer. At this earliest stage of design, all members of the team then come together with the homeowner to create a seamless design that integrates the floor plan with the landscape and hardscapes, the interiors and finally lighting and sound. We find this process allows us to begin defining selections and levels of finish work that will result in a budget that meets the customers’ expectations. Having us involved throughout this process ensures as we go along that the client and the design team are aware of how choices in design affect the budget for the project. We have found too many clients who approach us with plans for their dream home dashed when they realize what they have designed is way beyond their investment level.

Every team member shares Harwick Homes’ commitment to excellence, attention to detail and penchant for surpassing our clients’ expectations. Building a house is a skill. Creating a home is an art that we take very seriously. back to top

The Dream-to-Reality Process Begins

The journey from design to reality begins after the initial floor plan, exterior elevations and roof designs are completed. At this point we develop a preliminary budget to ensure we are all headed in the same direction. The team grows to include the lumber supplier who will design the roof truss system, and the information moves on to our engineer who approves the overall design – interior and exterior drawings that have been shaped by the team to reflect your personal preferences, custom features and design options.
Residential communities with design review boards assure the integrity of homes and neighborhoods through their internal review committee. During the review process, committee members will consider choices of exterior elements made during your meetings with the building designer or architect, ones that help shape the personality of your home – colors, roof tiles, drive and motor court paver bricks, the color and design of precast elements, such as columns, and your pool/outdoor living areas. It is our task to ensure as we go through this process that we guide our clients into making decisions that will meet these requirements of the local building department, zoning department or design review committee.

The review includes the basic appliance layout and decisions made during meetings to review and approve plans with the security companies responsible for the home’s security and fire safety systems and the audio-video system.

The review process by the community review board is an added measure of assurance that the plans meet the highest standards of design and, equally important, that a residents’ investment in their home is respected. The committee’s approval signals the time to submit to the county the application for the building permit.
The application for the permit to begin construction is an exciting point in the dream-to-reality process. The procedure can take up to five months, and Harwick Homes knows a calendar can seem less intimidating when people are surrounded by family.

The Harwick family includes you.

Setting Sites for Rooms With a View

Every home site offers gifts of views, privacy and opportunities to enrich our clients’ lifestyles. The residential designer translates the art of design to the form of a home that will embrace the elements of nature’s living murals – natural preserves, golf course backdrops, water and landscaping that respect the site’s native trees and plants.

Every home by Harwick Homes is a perfect balance of preferences with preservation. Clients participate in this part of the design phase to approve how the home will be placed on the home site. The result is a home that captures how the home will “live” – formal, casual, a combination of both, spaces for hobbies and privacy, and an array of spectacular views unique to each living area.

When our clients make the final choices, a representative of the community’s review team visits to assure the home’s “footprint” on the site complements the site, respects nature’s gifts and will accommodate site features, such as drainage. The official approval of the home and home site marks a most memorable event. The earth moves, construction begins, and the rooms with a view begin to take shape in the luxury home of your dreams.

Decisions Along the Path to Your Home

The foundation of Harwick Homes’ peerless reputation is built on the company’s dual approach to creating homes of distinction. Exquisitely designed luxury homes embrace the owners’ lifestyles and are created with an unsurpassed commitment to excellence. The second is intangible and measured by our clients. We believe the process of building a home should be one of the most pleasurable experiences of our clients’ lives, a flawless evolution that begins with the initial design and includes the decisions made along the way to make your dream a reality.

We call this process the critical path of decisions, the series of meetings with the professionals who work with you and each other to create a residential masterpiece with elements that come together in a seamless design.

The path begins with the choices made to prepare for the community review board and permit application:

• Interior designer: Exterior colors, railings, precast colors and design, pool design and colors.
• Landscape architect: Landscape design and hardscape plans that include the pool, fountains, walkways and other exterior elements.

The decisions accomplished to finish the permit application to build appear are next on the critical path list:

• Security company: Security and fire safety systems.
• Audio/video company: Design the home’s audio and video system in concert with the interior designer.
• Interior designer: Choose the basic appliance layout.

Throughout the entire process of creating a home, Harwick Homes coordinates and participates in a series of meetings with the home owners and designers. The finest details and interior features are chosen and approved, ones that integrate luxury with personal needs and preferences. These final decisions will finish the transformation of a luxury house into an exquisite home of distinction – the home of dreams to reality. During the meetings with the individual professional and designers, clients:

• Select plumbing fixtures and appliances.
• Review and approve closet built-ins and shelving.
• Discuss lighting designs that include preferences, needs, and lifestyles and choose from the range of options. The interior designer typically participates to coordinate with the lighting design company placements, choices and the tiniest details, such as where to locate special needs electrical outlets.
• With the cabinet company, plan cabinetry and built-ins, select door styles and decide on finishes. The interior designer typically participates here, too, to assure a seamless design and the perfect complement to the clients’ lifestyle.
• With the interior designer, develop and complete the home’s interior details, the final strokes that shape the home’s charm, warmth and unique personality – flooring, counter tops, railings, precast interior doors and hardware, decorative lighting, ceiling fans and the interior wall finishes.
• Within this process, meet with the staff of Harwick Homes to choose from the final list of the home’s construction options, including the water filtration system, lightning protection, choice and placement of safes, and wine cellar details.

We have built our superior reputation within the industry with our penchant for exceeding expectations. Harwick Homes’ clients are the most important people in our lives, and we expect the same commitment from each of the members of our design team and staff. Your home is our business. Our only business. back to top