Author: Marisa

This Thanksgiving, we’re feeling especially thankful for all of our incredible clients. Their dreams are what fuel our passion for our work – and we’re pretty sure that we have some of the best clients around! We’re also very thankful to have so many projects under construction this year. We love the chance to be

In our What to Expect series, we’re following along the process of IRIE House and sharing what you should expect from your architect when you work with them on a custom home. We’ve talked about the first phase of working together, Pre-Design, as well as Schematic Design. In our last post, we discussed what goes

Many of our homes feature reading nooks – and a few even include libraries! We love a cozy nook that invites you to curl up with your favorite story. Library spaces can be some of the most inventive ones to design. Some libraries are distinct rooms that can also serve as an office space. Others

Towards the beginning of October, a number of us from the studio had an opportunity to attend the annual CRAN symposium. For those of you that may not know, CRAN stands for the Custom Residential Architecture Network. It is also an AIA (American Institute of Architects) knowledge community. Members include both licensed and unlicensed residential

We are so lucky to have so many amazing projects under construction! It feels like I’ve been writing a lot of these construction update posts recently – and I have! Check out our recent updates on Fermata, Tranquil Guest House and Art Fort. We’re also in construction on many others, including Barnstormer, SkyHaus and Saugerties

Last month, we had a chance to do another one of our Team Days. With a very busy summer, we hadn’t had an opportunity to do a Team Day since March, though we did have a great offsite last May. On other Team Days, we’ve built gingerbread houses, visited some of our favorite local art

We are very lucky to have lots of projects currently under construction! One that we are particularly excited about is Tranquil Guest House, a new guest house for our clients at Tranquil Abiding. It is so fun to be able to work with the same clients for a second project and to be adding to

As we were planning what project to showcase for this month’s construction update, we realized that we have never posted a construction update on Fermata! If you follow us on Instagram, you probably know that we’ve made some incredible progress on this project, so it’s pretty surprising that we haven’t yet written about it here.

One of the most popular requests we get for our custom home designs is to include a modern screen porch. Sometimes, theses porches function as additions or renovations to existing homes, but we also design screen porches for our new construction projects. Currently, we have a number of projects under construction that feature a screen

We recently started construction on IRIE House, a home that stretches along a rocky ridgeline in Saugerties, NY. IRIE House is named after the Jamaican term, “irie”. Used by Rastafarians, the word “irie” means to be at peace with your current state of being. Emulating “irie,” this home is filled with curated views of the