Category: Illustrating Our Process

New Projects on the Boards: June 2022 Behind the Design: Schematic Design

If you follow us on Instagram, you’ve probably caught a glimpse of what our days actually look like — the sketches spread across the conference table, the early Zoom conversations and on-screen sketching, and lots of inspiration images from our projects and architects we admire. We love sharing those moments in our stories because they

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What to Expect from Your Architect: Schematic Design What to Expect from Your Architect: Schematic Design

Welcome to the latest post in our revamped series “What to Expect from Your Architect”! We’re using IRIE House as an example of our design process and walking through each of the phases. ICYMI we kicked off the series with “What to Expect from Your Architect: Land and Pre-Design“. Check it out to catch up

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Featured Projects: Studio MM Renovations Introducing our Renovation Feasibility Study

Want to renovate your home but don’t know where to start? Looking for scaled options of what you can do to renovate your home? Perhaps you have a lot to renovate but don’t know if you have the budget to do it all? All of these are questions that our Renovation Feasibility Study service can

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Best Practices: Working with Our Contractors Best Practices: Working with Our Contractors

If you read our recap from our team offsite, Behind the Scenes: May Team Offsite, you got a little intro to how we best work with our contractors. While we are architects for all of our projects, we are also Construction Managers for several of them. For more information about our Construction Management process please

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Meet the Team: Alexa, Ilsa, & Maxine Illustrating Our Process: Construction Administration

We’ve taken a bit of a hiatus on our Illustrating Our Process series. One might say it’s because we’ve been so busy with all of our projects under construction that we haven’t had time to write about them! Needless to say, we’re excited to jump back in! If you’ve joined us recently or want to

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Kaat Cliffs - Modern Home in Catskills Behind the Scenes: An Introduction to Construction Management

In the past three years, we’ve made a big move at Studio MM. After working in close collaboration with a number of local contractors for more than five years, we decided to start building our own Construction Management team. This doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped working with other contractors. We truly enjoy working with all

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Illustrating Our Process: Bidding, Value Engineering and Permitting

In our most recent blog post series that we’re calling Illustrating Our Process, we’ve been looking at each of our design phases through the lens of different visual tools we use. We’ve made it through all of the steps of the design process – Schematic Design,  Exterior Design Development, Interior Design Development and Construction Documents

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Modern Details for Residential Design Illustrating Our Process: Construction Documents

In our most recent blog post series that we’re calling Illustrating Our Process, we’ve been looking at each of our design phases through the lens of different visual tools we use. We started off talking about Schematic Design,  Exterior Design Development and Interior Design Development. This week, we’re talking about Construction Documents. Keep reading to learn

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Brewster House - Modern Home Upstate Illustrating Our Process: Interior Design Development

In our most recent blog post series, we’re walking through each of our design phases by focusing on the visuals that we use with our clients. We started off talking about Schematic Design and last month we continued the series by discussing Exterior Design Development (DD). This week, we are taking a closer look at

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DD1 - BC Retreat - Modern Home in the Hudson Valley Illustrating Our Process: Exterior Design Development

In our most recent series, we’re exploring each of our design phases to give you an in-depth look at our process. Our first post in the series highlighted Schematic Design and all of the different points of inspiration we can have, plan iterations that we draw, and decisions that we ask our clients to make.

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