Some mornings, when the sun hits just right, the sandblasted windows in S & S Homes’ earliest houses still glow.
S & S Homes was not born from a business plan or strategic expansion. It grew naturally out of a family that learned the trades with their hands long before earning titles. Steven Sanders began working with his father, Warren, straight out of high school. The work was hands-on and demanding. There was no easing into it, just long days, problem-solving, and learning on the job. At the same time, Janet Axelsen was working for an architect after graduating from high school,
It’s a small detail, easy to miss, but it captures what the company has stood for from the very beginning. Before subdivisions stretched across the landscape, before model homes helped buyers imagine what was possible, and before teams of employees could recite decades of projects from memory, S & S Homes was simply a family learning how to build together. That same feeling still sets an S & S Homes community apart today. People sense it the moment they walk inside one of the homes. As the company celebrates 30 years as a corporation and more than 40 years since its early beginnings, that feeling has become more than a design choice. It has become their legacy .
A Family Beginning and a Father Who Said, “Figure It Out.”
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