Our Story
Built on partnership.
We bring your home to life through focused listening, open communication, and a hands-on approach at every step, so the house you move into is genuinely yours.
Why We Exist
The best homes aren't handed down. They're built together.
Colarelli Custom Homes was founded on a simple conviction: a custom home should reflect the people who live in it, not the builder who built it. Too often, families are handed a finished product and asked to adjust. We do the opposite.
Our hands-on approach, focused listening, and open communication keep you interactive through every step of the build. We work together as partners, ensuring you are informed of every decision from the first sketch to the final walkthrough.
Experience is our foundation, but we let our perspective evolve through every partnership. That's what keeps each home distinctly its own.
“Your goals are big and our expectations are high. Together with you, we create thoughtful, smart spaces that offer the comfort of home.”
The Colarelli Team
What Guides Us
Three commitments behind every build.
We listen first
Our hands-on approach, focused listening, and open communication keep you interactive with every step of the build, never on the outside looking in.
We work as partners
We work together as partners, ensuring you are informed of every decision from the first sketch to the final walkthrough. No surprises. No black boxes.
We let perspective evolve
Experience is our foundation, but we let our perspective evolve through every partnership, so your home is genuinely yours and not a copy of the last one.
The People You'll Build With
You don't hire a company. You meet a team.
A custom home is a long relationship. Here are the people you'll actually work with, in the order you'll meet them, from the first phone call to the day we hand you the keys.
The first conversation
Brett Rankin
Business Development Manager
The first person you'll talk to. Born and raised in Salida, Brett has watched these mountains fill with people who want to build a life here, so he listens first, tells you honestly whether we're the right fit, and stays your direct line from that call onward.
Keeping it all moving
Marty Brinegar
Manager
A third-generation home builder, Marty has managed everything from sophisticated remodels to multi-million-dollar custom homes, and keeps the whole operation moving.
Vision & design
Amy Nelson
Lead Designer
Amy turns how you live into how your home looks and feels. She reads your personality and lifestyle into every choice, color, texture, material, light, so the spaces come out unmistakably yours, and functional down to the last detail.
Preconstruction
Eric Anderson
Preconstruction Manager
Before a shovel moves, Eric makes the plan real, organizing the hand-off from design to construction so the build starts on solid ground and stays there. A former business owner, he sweats the details that keep surprises out.
On site
Matt Rasmussen
Superintendent
Matt runs your jobsite. Twenty years in residential construction, framing, millwork, finish carpentry, and he came up through the trades to superintendent, so he knows what good looks like at every stage and holds the crews to it.
Every step in between
Shane Pogue
Client Manager
Shane is your point person from start to finish. A Colorado native with thirty years in the industry, he keeps you in the loop day to day, answering questions, tracking progress, and making sure the experience feels as considered as the home.
Behind the Team
Vince Colarelli
Founder & CEO
Vince founded Colarelli Construction in 2003. With degrees in architectural engineering and architecture and a Stanford master's in construction management, he set the standard the whole team builds to.
Alongside the CCH team, our partner network brings decades of award-winning homebuilding, including Rich Edgington (37 years, Construction Management, Colorado State) and Todd Handwerk (Certified Master Builder, Texas A&M).
Start a Build
Let's build yours, together.
Tell us about your site and how you want to live. We'll be honest about fit, and if it's right, we'll bring the whole team.