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OUR MISSION IS TO HELP OUR CLIENTS CREATE A ONE-OF-A-KIND ENVIRONMENT THAT

REPRESENTS THE EPITOME OF INNOVATION AND QUALITY WORKMANSHIP.

 

AT TORRANCE CONSTRUCTION WE BELIEVE SUCCESS IS A RESULT OF A TOTAL COMMITMENT

TO SATISFYING OUR CLIENTS NEEDS.

 

THROUGH CLOSE CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS, CUSTOM BUILDING TECHNIQUES

AND UTILIZATION OF INDIGENOUS ADIRONDACK MATERIALS,

WE HAVE ALLOWED OUR CLIENTS TO FASHION EXCEPTIONALLY UNIQUE STRUCTURES

FOR DECADES. BY FOCUSING ON DESIGN AND INNOVATION RATHER THAN A SINGLE STYLE,

WE OPEN MORE DOORS FOR YOU TO FASHION THE HOME OF

YOUR DREAMS.

WHETHER YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A RUSTIC CAMP OR A CONTEMPORARY LOFT,

WE'RE READY TO MAKE YOUR DREAMS A REALITY.OUR SEASONED TRADESMEN ARE

EXPERTS IN BUILDING: LUXURY HOMES, WATER ACCESS CAMPS,

BOATHOUSES, AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS.

COME SEE WHY WE ARE THE PREMIER LAKE PLACID CONTRACTORS.

 

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No matter how you monitor the project, the relationship with your builder is key. “You must have faith, absolute trust, in the contractor,” Mr. Torrance said. “Trust is more important than money.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Your Second Home | Building in Absentia

Dream Is There. You’re Here.

For builders like Mr. Torrance and his crew, hunting season means saving room in the backpack for erratically shaped burls and twigs and gigantic fungi (nifty for sconces). Improvisational carpentry has always been an important part of camp building. ''You realize it was a lumberjack who did the work, or a farmer who had a free afternoon,'' said Mr. Torrance, who has a courtly woodsman's demeanor and grew up in Lake Placid. ''That's the nice thing about building these places. Nothing is predetermined. You stand there with a pile of twigs and branches and then you work up a pattern, a feel. If 'It lacks a little something.' You kind of sculpt them.''

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Out Twigging the Neighbors; In the Adirondacks Great Camps are Sprouting Again

"The most important aspect of building a house like this is that you have to have a builder who understands. The man's name is Peter Torrance. He knows everything there is to know about traditional Adirondack houses, he's in every single Adirondack-Style book. I could not call him a contractor-he's a gentleman builder and completely amazing. He has craftsmen who have learned to weave magic with twigs."

​- Mimi McMakin

HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

 

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