Category: Design Inspiration

Floating House, Modern Tree House, Stilt House…  By Tree House I don’t mean the playful, child-size treehouse that we think of in the backyard, though that would be fun to design! I mean a modern home that is ‘floating” above the ground. The easiest way I can think to describe this is as a “Modern Tree House”, and if

Everybody’s talking about “tiny homes” so why can’t we?! Small house, tiny home, micro cabin…it’s all the hype these days. And I can’t say I blame the hype – so many of these mini modern homes are super cool! We’ve been brainstorming lately for a client on how to create a very small dwelling unit

Celebrating Residential Architecture: House of the Day Every Monday we share a House of the Day on social media as part of a weekly “archi-challenge” we participate in with a group of residential architects. The goal is to celebrate residential architecture and encourage engagement with other small architecture firms by sharing amazing and inspiring homes. In today’s

We are working on a very unique and exciting project at the moment for which the word “creative” is absolutely the main inspiration. Our clients, one a writer and the other an artist, have asked us to design 2 separate studios to inspire their creative minds at work. On top of this already fun-to-design idea, the plan

In case you’ve missed our recent excitement on social media about this, a couple came to our studio a couple of months ago asking us to design a Bridge House addition to their small cottage in Upstate NY.  They have a beautiful property with a creek running along their existing home to a large pond just beyond their back deck. The idea

Every year NYC Design Week attracts thousands of design lovers for the numerous events around NYC. One of the events we look forward to during this week is the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). ICFF includes exhibits from over 800 designers from 40 countries showcasing everything from furniture to lighting to kitchen and bath to textiles and materials. This

Design Inspiration: “Magic Moments” During one of the Pre-Design meetings with our Cat Hill client she mentioned wanting a home that is “simple and comfortable, but stylish with some dramatic ‘wows’.” Our primary goal for the design of our Cat Hill project is to create a house our client will be proud to live in with a few

“These playful architectural elements can be used in modern homes to provide shelter from the sun, privacy for inhabitants, or texture and interest…” A few weeks ago we presented a collection of images for our post about A Play with Light and Shadow in Modern Architecture based on inspiration from one of our clients. As we

A client came to us with magazines full of inspiration images, and we found a few common themes. One was our client’s love of the spaces that showed a sense of play with light and shadow. These playful architectural elements can be used in modern homes to provide shelter from the sun, privacy for inhabitants, or texture and

Residential Architecture Inspiration: House of the Day Each week we share a House of the Day on social media as a way of promoting residential architecture and celebrating our profession. From all the likes, comments and shares I’d say these are definitely some of our most popular posts. Today we’ve selected a few of our fans’