Karp Associates - Custom Homes, Renovations, Construction Management


		"Living at its Best in Towns Beyond Greenwich, CT" Excerpt from New York Living Karp Associates and Affiliates (KAA), is a building design and general contracting firm operating in New Canaan for over 15 years. In 1988, KAA established a renovation division now nationally ranked among the top 500 remodelers in the country. - read article "Winning Awards for Fine Remodeling" Excerpt from The Advocate The Homebuilders Association of Connecticut presented 2000 industry remodeling awards, known to the trade as HOBIs, late last year. - read article "Something Old in Something New" The Home Monthly Most people when building a house expect their home to look new. Arnold Karp does just the opposite. He has taken a brand new home and done his best to make it look like an antique. - read article "Surviving Construction - Step 1 Do Your Homework" Home Resource & Design Magazine The high-end, residential building and remodeling firm Karp Associates, Inc. is responsible for over $100 million in new construction and renovations in southern Connecticut and Westchester County. - read article "Homebuilding in Fairfield County" Excerpt from Fairfield County Business Journal ...million-dollar builder, Arnold M. Karp, develops entire neighborhoods of luxury houses. His firm, Karp Associates, was ranked No. 16 in Business Journal's 1999 list of Fairfield County construction companies. - read article "Teardown Mania - Larger Homes Are Replacing Smaller Ones" Excerpt from New Canaan Darien & Rowayton Builder and developer Arnold Karp of Karp Associates in New Canaan is no strager to demolition permits. He estimates that he does four to five teardowns a year in the corridor stretching from Westchester County through Fairfield County, and is constantly searching for buildable lots to add to his inventory. - read article "Play Rooms That really Got Game" Excerpt from Homes & Real Estate, Sunday, February 9, 2003 Luxury home builder Arnold Karp is used to meeting the demands of his clients in upscale Fairfield County. But is was his own idea to build a 900-square-foot indoor basketball court over the garage of a home he was building in New Canaan last year. - read article "Nestledown, targeted for tear-down, transformed into 23-room mansion" New Canaan Advertiser, Living, Thursday, March 27, 2003 Fairfield County's scarcity of land, and the exorbitant cost of what land is left, has fueled a tear down trend that is causing concern in many lower Fairfield County towns. However, some builders are recognizing the potential that old homes offer. - read article "Builders of Luxury Homes" New York Living, October 2001 Karp Associates and Affiliates (KAA), is a building design and general contracting firm operating in new Canaan for over 15 years. In 1988, KAA established a renovation division now nationally ranked among the top 500 remodelers in the country. - read article Towns Debate: Can Big Houses Be Too Big? The New York Times, November, 15, 1998 "It's a difficult thing for us who love New Canaan, said Mr. McEwan. "We want to see the nicer elements of town preserved." - read article "Grand Entrances - Granite floors, Custom Paving Elevate Garages And Driveways" Excerpt from The Hartford Courant, Home & Real Estate, Sunday, October 29, 2000 "People are looking for something different than their neighbors'," said builder Arnold Karp, who specializes in remodeling and new home construction in Fairfield County. Garages and driveways, he said, "have gone from something no one cared about to very important parts of new home construction. People are paying a lot of attention." - read article "Local Builder Featured in National Publication" Excerts from Updating Classic America: Ranches, By M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman A New Canaan, Connecticut home by the award-winning Karp Associates Inc, based in Fairfield County was recently featured in the book Updating Classic America: Ranches by M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman. The book examines how homebuyers are maximizing this all American house type. - read article