Tobin Dougherty Architect

We haven’t worked directly with Tobin but our personal experience with him was great.
We bought a house in Los Altos that was remodeled 10 years ago and Tobin was the architect at the time. He did the work as a favor to the previous owner it seems.
We were planning to do an addition and considerably play with the floor plan inside the house — not really touching the area that had been remodeled before. We found the plans and saw Tobin’s name on it. We looked him up online and saw how beautiful his projects were. We loved his work! He agreed to come to our house and meet with house even though the project was much smaller than what he would normally do. We loved that he was not the type of architect that «would take you as far as you want to go» but we could feel when we met with him that he was full of great ideas for our project. He actually made us really think about our needs and what we were trying to achieve.
After that meeting we received his proposal. We thought some more about the project and came to the conclusion that what we really needed was some more shade in the backyard and a light facelift for the house.
I contacted him and thanked him to have agreed to do our project but that the scope was now way too small for the kind of work he normally does. He was gracious and even drove to our house to drop off our plans.
We sincerely hope that we will have the opportunity to work with him in the future.