Erin Leichty

My love for planning and architecture is in my blood. My father was a city planner for most of his long career and my mom was forever changing and redesigning her garden. When I was a child, during the late 80’s and 90’s, when SW PDX housing developments were booming, my aunt, mom and I, would walk the neighborhood exploring partially built homes, guessing what went where. I recall loving the smell of fresh cut wood and the wondrous possibilities each house held. I took drafting and architecture in high school and started my college career in the engineering program, where I eventually met my former husband. He would go on to become a structural engineer and we would build and design many projects together (he is still my go-to engineer). I settled on a fine art career while we raised our young children, but after parting ways and as my children became more independent, I was able to parlay the skills I had developed through our building projects, my art career and running a household into a design/build construction firm. I live and work in SW Portland and am a mother to a phenomenal teen son and tween daughter and two beautiful rescue dogs, Boss and Gracie.