At an early age, Nick Ratliff thought he knew what he wanted to do for a career. He was raised around a large family as the son of a mother with 10 siblings, many of whom had their careers entrenched in the housing industry. Ratliff felt that it would be his calling to become an architect.

 

“Almost all of my family members on that side, like seven of them, have been builders or contractors,” Ratliff said. “Growing up around that, I got to see the behind the scenes happenings and was around it most of my childhood. Maybe that’s why I’ve always loved floor plans. To this day, I could sit here and draw out an efficient set of floor plans and I enjoy it, so I always thought I wanted to become an architect.”