We design houses and apartments for people who will actually live in them. Projects take nine to eighteen months. We work with a small group of clients a year. The rest is quiet.
A 1901 Montréal greystone, stripped down and quietly rebuilt for a young family who wanted the bones to show.
The drawings sat on the table for six weeks before we broke ground. When it came, the work was quiet: a new stair rising in the same place the old one did, a kitchen pulled forward two feet, a single window made twice as tall. The house felt older after, not newer.
Read the full piece →A hundred-year dairy barn turned weekend house. Kept every beam, every hand-cut nail — added a glass seam of a kitchen.
The drawings sat on the table for six weeks before we broke ground. When it came, the work was quiet: a new stair rising in the same place the old one did, a kitchen pulled forward two feet, a single window made twice as tall. The house felt older after, not newer.
Read the full piece →Two buyers, eighteen books worth of inspiration, one surprisingly calm final plan. Ash, limestone, and a very specific blue.
The drawings sat on the table for six weeks before we broke ground. When it came, the work was quiet: a new stair rising in the same place the old one did, a kitchen pulled forward two feet, a single window made twice as tall. The house felt older after, not newer.
Read the full piece →A writer's retreat. Cedar cladding, a wood stove that does all the work, one bookshelf that took five months to land.
The drawings sat on the table for six weeks before we broke ground. When it came, the work was quiet: a new stair rising in the same place the old one did, a kitchen pulled forward two feet, a single window made twice as tall. The house felt older after, not newer.
Read the full piece →“We design the way we cook dinner — one hand on the ingredient, one eye on the room. Nothing shows off. Everything should have a reason to be there.”
We take on between four and six full-service projects a year. Most clients find us through word of mouth. Send us a note about the house and what you're hoping it could be.