Category: Design Inspiration

We’ve designed a few homes with courtyard spaces! IRIE House and Fermata both include courtyard spaces and are under construction . We love courtyards because they help us blur the lines between interior and exterior spaces and can help bring more greenery into spaces. Today we’re sharing some inspiration for courtyard homes that we love

While we are not landscape architects, we do love thinking about how our homes fit on their sites. Part of site planning often involves considering where a pool or future pool might go. Saugerties Lake House and BC Retreat both have pools installed. We’re looking forward to photographing these homes later this year! IRIE House,

We’re working on a number of projects right now that includes space for a home gym. We have a garage renovation that will include a home gym, a spa bath and a sauna that is currently under construction in Rhinebeck. We also recently started working on a renovation and addition that features a home gym

Each of our homes has a unique response to its site and to the client we are designing for. We also take care to design special modern entryway sequences. Entries can be “WOW!” moments, or they can be meditative, calming moments before entering the primary part of a home. We’ve designed entries that are more

Every Monday on our Facebook and Linked In pages, we share a House of the Day. Each House of the Day is a house designed by architects whose work we admire and doubles as a great way to celebrate residential architecture. We are not the only firm that does this- if you look up #HouseoftheDay you’ll be able

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

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

It’s been a while since we wrote up a Design Inspiration blog post. We typically like to keep our design inspiration posts coordinated with the season that we post them. Since it’s summertime we wanted to think of a detail that we’ve designed for our projects that really shines during the summer months. In prior

To get the summer energy and excitement going, this week we are sharing some inspiration featuring pool-focused courtyards. We have two projects under construction, Wass House and 8 Oaks that have pool courtyards. They both use U-shaped designs that create ideal semi-private courtyards for a central pool. Design Inspiration: Pool Courtyard Courtyard House by Christian

There are of course so many wonderful things about spring time in the Hudson Valley, but one thing is for certain – it gets muddy. When we work with clients who have dogs, young children, and/or love to walk around and hike we design efficient and clean mudrooms. While “clean mudroom” may sound like an