Category: Design Inspiration

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’

Traditional + Modern: Can it be done “tastefully”? I absolutely believe modern and traditional styles together can be stunning, and I think you’ll agree with me after looking through our inspiration images below. One of our clients bought a beautiful and historic “home” and they have asked us to design a renovation and addition that reflects their

Last weekend I was talking through design inspirations with a client and the idea of a concrete house came up. As we usually do in a Pre-Design meeting we were looking through images, discussing likes and dislikes, and the conversation kept going back to concrete. I think when you first imagine a concrete house you

Happy Archtober! October in New York City is #Archtober – New York City’s annual Architecture and Design Month – and we’re celebrating Archtober all month long by sharing  #ArchitectureoftheDay  posts daily on Instagram. Follow us @architectmm for awesome architecture inspiration all month long! Want to help spread the celebration? Post your own photo on social

As a residential architect we are of course familiar with designing bedrooms and bathrooms, living rooms and kitchens… well, we have a couple clients that we’re working with now who are certainly challenging what we think of as a “typical” program for a home. And we are having a lot of fun! We’ve blogged about playroom

We’ve been thinking about color a lot lately. This is a big step for us – as you know, architects typically prefer all shades of black, and I have to admit I fall solidly into that category. But we have a couple projects in our office that are bringing COLOR to the front of our designs, and I

Some of the features we often hear as descriptors for Modern Architecture are “minimal”, “open floor plan” and “lots of glass.” I would agree, yet all modern homes do not have floor to ceiling windows throughout the house. Clerestory Windows in Modern Homes As much as we all love walls of windows, there are certainly rooms where this is

We are sharing inspiration of a different kind today as we explore modern homes in an urban setting – much different than our recent settings in the middle of the woods. As you’ve probably seen on our Instagram or Facebook pages, we are working on a new project in Chattanooga and it’s very much in

We wrote a post earlier this year titled Inspiration – Beyond Architecture and it was such a hit I thought we’d try for Part 2. To be honest I had no idea a post in The Architect’s Notebook with photos of freshly baked bread and Great Danes would invite so many comments and likes, but, then

In case you haven’t noticed, lately we’ve been finding a lot of inspiration in the vernacular of the Hudson Valley. Since so much of our work is located in Upstate New York, this should be of no surprise… So much of the Hudson Valley’s charm – beyond the Catskill Mountains and gorgeous state parks – is the