Park City, UT · Spec / 2024
Aspen Springs
A four-season mountain home pushed to the edge of its sloping lot, with a clerestory great room that catches the Wasatch sunrise.
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Eastern Idaho · Custom Home Builders Since 2007
Every home has problems. Knowing how to solve them is what makes a builder great. Eighteen years of custom Eastern Idaho work behind every decision we help you make.
Every home has problems. Knowing how to solve them is what makes a builder great.
Eighteen years of Idaho builds, eighteen years of running into the exact problem you're about to hit. The work isn't the framing or the finish — it's the judgment between them.
Selected Work
Park City, UT · Spec / 2024
A four-season mountain home pushed to the edge of its sloping lot, with a clerestory great room that catches the Wasatch sunrise.
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Idaho Falls, ID · Custom / 2018
Guardian's 2018 Eastern Idaho Parade of Homes entry at 4701 Clearwater — winner of three awards in its category. View the gallery.
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Idaho Falls, ID · Custom / 2019
Straight Arrow — Curtis and Rebecca Ward's family home, built by Guardian using the same crew, subs, and process as every other Guardian build.
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Ammon, ID · Commercial / 2023
1070 South Curlew — a Guardian commercial build in Ammon, ID (10,000 sq ft). View the gallery and the build story.
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We build a small number of specs each year on lots we hand-pick. If one of these is the right home for you, it's faster than starting from scratch — and there's usually still time to influence selections.
Why Guardian
Anyone with a license can frame walls and hang siding. What separates a great builder from a bad one is the dozen small decisions per day that hide inside the wall, the foundation, the mechanical room — the ones a homeowner will live with for thirty years without knowing they were made.
A Foundation Decision
Original report cleared the lot. Excavation turned up softer ground. Most builders would have poured anyway and hoped. We brought the engineer back, redesigned the footings, and added two days. That home doesn't crack.
A Framing Decision
Roof was drawn under the old IRC. New code was about to drop. We re-engineered the trusses to the new spec a week before framing — costlier now, but the home won't be obsolete the day it's inspected.
A Selection Decision
Marble in a family kitchen with four kids. We pushed back, walked them through quartzite alternatives in person, and they ended up with a stone they actually like a year in. That's the real job of a selections process — not the showroom moment, the five-year moment.
This is the work we sell. Judgment shaped by eighteen years of Eastern Idaho builds — the dozen small decisions per day that determine how your home will hold up for the next thirty years.
View our work →How We Build
From the first lot walk to the final walkthrough, the Guardian process is built around open communication, complete cost transparency, and every selection made face-to-face.
See the full process →01
Pre-qualification first, with lender relationships we know — or yours.
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Free on-site consultation. Lot-finding help if you don't own land yet.
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Custom floor plan and every selection made face-to-face with our designer.
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12–14 months typical. Real-time portal access through Buildertrend.
Built by Owners
Guardian Homes was founded in 2007 by two builders who wanted to put their own names on every project. Curtis runs ownership and oversight; Brian leads every job in the field. There's no layer of project managers between you and the people deciding how your home gets built.
Meet the founders →The First Step
Square footage, lot status, timeline — whatever you have. We respond personally to every inquiry.
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