Meet Our Team Series: Our New Owner! Jeff!

Jeff Englund’s passion for design and construction started at a very early age as his father ran a hundred person crew in Montana building small residential projects as well as putting in all road, water, and sewer projects for developments. After moving to Colorado at an early age, the passion developed greater as his family bought their forever home, which in today’s world this would have been a scrape. Their family spent all summer and every night after school and sporting events working and remodeling every square inch of their home to make it theirs. At 12 years of age, Jeff was learning how to frame, do electrical, solder copper, run HVAC, hang and texture drywall. With his father’s background and his mother’s farm grown ethics, hard work played a monumental role in how he and his brother Pat were raised. “You can do anything you put your mind to, and put effort behind",” Jeff says. Today that translates into a deeper meaning that Jeff instills in his two boys, “I get to go to work, and I get to build our clients forever homes.”

Jeff was very fortunate to be involved in a small group of students at Bear Creek High School in Lakewood that were exposed to a rigid Pre-Engineering Curriculum. He was able to take Aerospace Engineering, designing air planes and specific wing designs tested in wind tunnels. Civil Engineering, designing bridges and testing load capacities. Mechanical and Product Engineering, designing small mechanical devices and products in Autodesk Inventor. And the most instrumental was, Architecture Engineering where he designed his first and only automotive shop in Autodesk Revit. Twenty years ago, Revit was a new 3d modeling and drafting software, but was said and told to be the future of the industry. For the last 5 years Larsen has been working in Revit to show our clients every facet of their home in the 3d realm to help streamline their design documents and create a standard level of detail in their plans and homes. “Building custom means our clients don’t get to walk through a model home, we have to innovate through software to help our clients experience their home before it’s built.”

Jeff went to CU Boulder for his undergraduate degree in Architecture followed up by going to CU Denver to receive a Masters in Architecture as well as a Masters in Business Administration. While he was in school he had an internship with Studiotrope in Denver and also was helping one of his best friends build their personal home in Morrison. Hands on experience and knowledge is invaluable in this industry, and has contributed to Jeff’s background significantly.

Being raised in the Denver Metro area, Jeff has strong ties to our community. He started working for Larsen the summer of 2013 as a Project Manager and quickly moved up the company gaining greater responsibility and knowledge of all parts of the company. As a project manager he saw what went into every detail of a home and would sketch architectural changes and built ins on site with our clients and trades. In 2017 when Larsen won a National Award for our Napa Valley Farmhouse, Jeff saw an opportunity and niche in the market, so he intentionally started moving the company in a new direction by creating a community of likeminded trade partners to help us move into new neighborhoods and build the next tier of Larsen homes.

Our teams approach of ‘Community by Culture’ rings true through all parts of our company. We build custom homes for clients, because we love relationships, and working with our clients and team to create something incredible.

In January of this year, Jeff officially took over as owner of Larsen. We are very excited to see where he takes us next!