I'm Andrew Burton, the founder of Creekside Homes. I started this company in 2003 because I loved residential design and I believed the way most custom homes were being built in Oregon — with the architect, the builder, and a half-dozen subcontractors all reporting to the homeowner — was harder on families than it needed to be. Twenty-plus years later, that's still the conviction we run on. Our clients hire Creekside because they don't want to manage the complexity of a custom home themselves, and because they want the design they fell in love with at the beginning of the process to survive all the way through to the day they move in.
How I Think About This Work
The hardest part of building a custom home isn't construction. It's protecting the design intent through the thousand small decisions between sketch and final walkthrough. Every one of those decisions is an opportunity for the architecture to lose a little of what made it good in the first place — a window proportion that gets value-engineered, a material substitution that doesn't age the same way, a detail that gets simplified in the field because nobody on site knew why it mattered. The integrated design-build model we run at Creekside exists specifically to close those gaps. The team that designs the home is the team that builds it. Nothing falls through the cracks because there are no cracks.
I think about residential architecture the way I was taught to by the work I admired growing up: the original Case Study House Program of the 1940s and 50s, the regional modernism of the Pacific Northwest, the careful Oregon wine-country builds that taught me what a home looks like when it's actually shaped by its land. Restraint over flash. Light over square footage. Materials that age well over materials that look new for a year. Plans where every move is doing more than one job.
Where We Build
Creekside is based in McMinnville, in the heart of Oregon wine country, and we build across Yamhill County, the greater Portland region, and select coastal sites. The lots our clients tend to own are rural acreage — vineyard parcels in the Dundee Hills and Eola Hills, hillside builds in the Chehalem Mountains, coastal sites along the foothills of the coast range. Most of our clients have already chosen the land before they reach out. Our job is to listen carefully to what the site wants the home to do, and to translate that into architecture the family will live in for the next thirty years.
Credentials
- Founded Creekside Homes in 2003 — over twenty years of continuous design-build practice in Oregon
- NAHB Member (National Association of Home Builders)
- Oregon CCB # 193076 — licensed Oregon construction contractor
- 36-time Best of Houzz winner across design and customer satisfaction (2014–2022)
- Featured in the Portland Street of Dreams 2026 with The Park, our entry at 16050 Kaylyn Drive in Oregon City
On the Blog
I write the Creekside blog myself, and I take it seriously. The most recent project is a sixteen-part series walking through the new Case Study Adapt initiative — sixteen California firms rebuilding homes for families who lost theirs in the January 2025 Palisades Fire. I cover one project at a time, share what I'm noticing as a builder, and bring the principles back home to what they mean for residential architecture in Oregon. If you're thinking about building, that series is one of the better ways to get a sense of how I read this work and how our team approaches the projects we take on.
How to Reach Me
The easiest way to start a conversation is the contact form on this site or a direct call at (503) 461-7046. If you own land — on the coast, in wine country, or anywhere in greater Portland — and you've been thinking about what your own custom home could look like, I'd welcome the conversation. We're selective about the projects we take on, but every initial call is honest, useful, and free.
