Author: Marica

We have been having so much fun lately researching Playroom Design Ideas for one of our projects… Nice to encourage your inner child every once in a while! #haveimentionedilovemyjob?! “A child’s play is serious business!” (quote from one of the many blogs we “researched” – love it! We are taking all of this fun very seriously.)

Most Important Things To Know about the Process of Renovating your Apartment in NYC: Today’s post is a “guest” post from another Studio MM team-member, John Grinstead. Since John is our in-house expert on all things Residential Architecture + Renovation in NYC,  I’ve asked him to jump in here today and give us the basics

House of the Day: Celebrating Residential Architecture Every Monday, a group of residential architects post a House of the Day as part of our group “archi-challenge.” Our goal is to show off awesome ‪#‎architecture‬ and encourage engagement with other small firm architects. We have a lot of fun celebrating residential architecture with these weekly posts and hope you do

Today’s post is a guest post written by Marisa Kaugars AND is part of the ArchiTalks series in which Bob Borson of Life of an Architect selects a theme, and a bunch of us architects (who also write a blog) post on the same day at the same time… This month our theme is Summer. You can find

Last week I spent a couple days visiting my clients in Lake Wylie, South Carolina. (Actually, I was there mainly to visit their home, but it was a lot of fun to see them too!) This visit was full of the stories I tell about why I love being a residential architect: From seeing the excitement on the two

Many design discussions with our clients begin with their desire to open up their home to the outdoors and focus on indoor-outdoor living. Blending Indoor-Outdoor Living Space Actually, writing this I realize we have homes all over the East Coast which are not really ideal climates for year-round “all about living outdoors”. Perhaps I should say

Modern Home Construction Update : TinkerBox It has been a few months since our last update for TinkerBox so there’s much more to show and explain now that a little more house has been built. I’m only going to tease you with descriptions – you’ll have to wait for finishes before we get into the real

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” “It is true – much of my life is work. The opposite is also true – much of my work is life. One of the first things I want to learn from my clients is how they live. After all, LIFE is

Let’s talk modern wood kitchen design! We haven’t done that for some time here in The Architect’s Notebook – our last kitchen post was many months ago! – and it’s one of my favorite spots in a house since I love to cook. For one of the projects we are currently designing, we are considering

During the Design Development Phase the architect “develops the floor plans, exterior and interior elevations, and details to further describe the character of the project.” Basically, the DD Phase is when most of the Design Decisions are made. We like to draw interior elevations of almost every room in the house. This seems the best way to