Blog

Journal

Notes on residential architecture, interiors, and the studio's process.

Why we let stone read as stone and wood read as wood, rather than dressing one material up as another.

Light isn't a finish you add at the end — it's one of the first things we plan for.

A restrained material palette is harder to get right than a busy one — and it's almost always worth it.

Less measuring than you'd think, more standing still and watching how the light and the family move.

We've stopped treating the kitchen as a room to visit and started treating it as the room everything else orbits.

Custom millwork isn't always the right call — but when a space is irregular, it's rarely optional.

The boundary between inside and outside is one of the more consequential decisions in a warm-climate home.

When color and material are kept simple, texture is what keeps a room from feeling flat.

Choosing beautiful fixtures matters less than deciding where light should — and shouldn't — fall.

The design is only as good as the hands that build it — so we're careful about who we build with.