Don't Grow Past Your Comfort Zone: Lessons From Decades of Building

Harvey Hine has been running HMH Architecture and Interiors in Boulder since 1989. Ten people. Over 400 projects. Zero desire to grow past his comfort zone.In this episode, Harvey walks through what 37 years in residential design actually teaches you: why firms die during booms more than busts, how he watched the best firm in Colorado go from 35 people to three, and why he made a deliberate decision early on to stop growing when it felt right and stay there.We get into his fully collaborative model, where contractors and interior designers are in the room from day one and share in the design, not just the budget. Harvey also gives a clear-eyed take on AI in architecture, where it's already saving real time and where it won't touch the creative work anytime soon. And he makes a case most residential builders won't want to hear: that smaller homes produce better families, better clients, and better buildings, and that the industry's obsession with square footage has been a losing game for livability.Guest: Harvey Hine — Founding Principal, HMH Architecture and InteriorsHost: Owen GagneSponsor: Plutus Agents — Custom workflows. Built for your team.