Custom home, addition, and renovation design for Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Historic-district comfortable, wooded-lot fluent, and drawn for how the house actually gets used.
Chapel Hill has layers. The historic district off Franklin Street, the 1950s ranches in Coker Hills and Glen Lennox, the wooded lots off Mt. Carmel Church Road, the newer neo-traditional Southern Village and Meadowmont blocks. Each one wants a different detailing language, a different relationship to the street, and a different approach to the addition or new build.
Our core work for Chapel Hill clients is sensitive additions and renovations on the older stock, custom homes on the larger wooded lots, and outdoor living tied into the native landscape. We also take on historic district submittals where the design has to pass Historic District Commission review before it can permit.
Wooded Chapel Hill lots reward slow site work. We map the trees worth keeping, read the slope, and set the foundation to minimize grading. The house that comes out of that process tends to sit better on the lot than one sited for convenience.
Every Chapel Hill engagement is fixed scope and fixed fee. Structural and civil partner stamps come in as part of the package, not as a separate phone call you have to make.
Recent work nearby
Great room design, The Meridian Residence.
Custom estate design. Designed with precision, built for life.
Chapel Hill neighborhoods we serve
Meadowmont
Southern Village
Westwood
Gimghoul
Franklin Hills
Coker Hills
Glen Lennox
Briar Chapel (Chatham)
Governors Club
Chandler's Green
Morgan Creek
Carrboro core
What you get
01
Historic district fluency.
We work inside the Chapel Hill Historic District Commission review cycle. Window lites, trim profiles, and materials reviewed against the guidelines before we submit.
02
Wooded-lot design.
A lot of Chapel Hill sits on mature hardwood lots with slope. We site the house, the driveway, and the outdoor rooms around the trees that stay, not the ones that go.
03
Additions that feel original.
Most Chapel Hill work is an addition or rework, not a teardown. The goal is a house that reads as one house, not a main structure with a bolt-on wing.
04
Energy and daylight first.
Orientation, glazing ratio, overhangs, and insulation strategy drawn into the schematic set, not bolted on at permit.
05
Partner engineering stamps.
Structural, civil, and energy partners coordinated against the drawings so the permit package lands complete on the first submittal.
06
3D before construction.
Photoreal renderings and walkable 3D models tied to the construction drawings. You see the addition from the street before the contractor bids it.
Planning a Chapel Hill project?
Book a 30-minute consult. Historic district, Southern Village, a wooded acre off 15-501, or a Carrboro bungalow. We will tell you what we would do and what it costs to get there.
