Board & Vellum receives Just label from the International Living Future Institute, a voluntary reporting tool for social justice and equity indicators in the workplace.

Achieved a Just label from the International Living Future Institute in 2023.

Board & Vellum is honored to be a Gray Awards Finalist for landscape design, earning the recognition for the rooftop garden at the Lucille on Roosevelt.

Honored as a finalist for residential landscape design.

LEED Certified in White

Our team includes LEED-accredited professionals.

Certified Passive House Consultant in White

Our team includes certified Passive House consultants.

NGLCC Certified as LGBT Business Enterprise – Board & Vellum Recognition

A Certified LGBT Business Enterprise Since 2016.

PSBJ’s Top 25 LGBTQ-Owned Businesses 2016 in White

Honoring companies that lead in promoting equality.

Designing clever solutions to complex problems.

Board & Vellum creates deeply-cohesive, holistic design solutions by leveraging a cross-disciplinary creative process.

Our in-house, collaborative teams of architects, interior designers, and landscape architects pull from a deep well of experience across diverse sectors: from custom residential to multifamily residential, commercial, community, and civic. We are passionate about creating inspiring, impactful projects, while bringing levity to the design process, leading a tailored, client-focused experience.

Board & Vellum Custom Residential Design – Residential Design Services – Architecture, Interior Design, and Landscape Architecture for Single-Family Homes and Private Residences

Custom Residential

We offer custom residential architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture services for new construction and remodels, in a variety of styles, for projects large and small.

Lucille on Roosevelt: New Apartment Development in Seattle

Multifamily Residential

We focus on distinctive projects we can weave into the greater neighborhood around them, designed to please not only the developer, but the residents and community.

Commercial Design at Board & Vellum – Seven Starlings Workloft

Commercial

We build dynamic, multidisciplinary teams customized for the needs of your commercial project, collaborating to design an experience true to your brand and values.

Community and Civic Design at Board & Vellum – Architecture, Interior Design, and Landscape Architecture for Community-Oriented and Civic Projects

Community & Civic

We design inclusive, engaging, and inspiring buildings, spaces, and campuses for community-oriented organizations, institutions, and civic municipalities.

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Creating joyful experiences with compelling projects.

Our diverse portfolio features projects across sectors and scales — custom residential design including new and remodeled single-family homes; multifamily housing, including mixed-use developments, adaptive-reuse, apartment and condo buildings, and townhomes; commercial design, including hospitality spaces like restaurants and cafés, retail experiences, and commercial offices; and community-focused projects, such as master-planning and campus design for non-profit organizations, and even public parks.

Seward Park Gables – Board & Vellum
Vaulting Ceilings into Former Attic Space

Seward Park Gables

Creating architectural drama by opening up unused attic space to create newly-gabled living spaces below.

Stellar Apartments at 1405 Dexter, Seattle, WA – Board & Vellum
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Multifamily Housing in South Lake Union

Stellar Apartments

With a distinctive design, this new apartment building responds to its transit-oriented location without blending in with the crowd.

Laurelhurst Storybook Residence – Architecture, Interior Design, and Landscape Architecture by Board & Vellum
Bringing a Fairytale Home to Life

Laurelhurst Storybook Residence

A Tudor-style estate brimming with custom details inside and out, designed by a fully-integrated, multi-disciplinary team.

Lake City Park – Board & Vellum
A New Public Park for a Local Community

Lake City Park

A neighborhood park celebrating recreation, urban agriculture, relaxation, and featuring art funded by the 1% For The Arts program.

Backyard Reading Retreat – Board & Vellum
Transforming an Overgrown Backyard

Backyard Reading Retreat

This backyard and petite shed form an urban oasis: the perfect place to relax and recharge in the busy city with a great book.

Seven Starlings Workloft – Board & Vellum
Integrated Brand Identity & Interior Design

Seven Starlings Workloft

An immersive brand experience for a boutique coworking space, anchored in a conceptual exploration of biomimicry and emergence.

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Tailoring collaboration across disciplines.

Board & Vellum offers architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture services; and includes a studio specializing in sustainable practice.

Whether your project requires only a single discipline, or if it would be truly elevated with a fully-integrated design team, or even if it simply may benefit from a dash of specialized input from another discipline, we will customize a team to suit.

The flexibility of in-house teams enables us to take advantage of quick design consultations from other disciplines, even when not formally engaged on a project, and all projects are critiqued from the varied perspectives of our multidisciplinary office.

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Architecture

Across the spectrum from urban to rural, beautiful, well-designed homes and buildings, both public and private, enhance daily life and support vibrant communities.

Board & Vellum Interior Design – Interior Design Services – Interior Designer

Interior Design

From deeply personal spaces to dynamic shared environments, interior design has immediate and direct impact on the perception of a space, elevating the experience and engaging the senses.

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Landscape Architecture

From our own backyards to shared communal spaces, to everyone’s public parks, beautiful outdoor spaces resonate with our basic human instincts, revitalizing, comforting, and invigorating us through the experience.

Sustainable Practice at Board & Vellum – Sustainability, Green Design, Green Building in Seattle

Sustainable Practice

Resilient design principles underpin all our work. Global impact or personal wellness, high-tech or passive design — wherever your focus lies, we’ll meet you where you are to curate a tailor-made strategy for your project.

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Feel free to explore the pages below, and — of course — please reach out to us if you have something particular you’d like to ask.

Recognition and Awards for Seattle architecture firm Board & Vellum – Board & Vellum's portfolio includes award-winning projects in architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture.

Recognition

We are honored to be recognized for our design work, professional service, and for being a great place to work. This inspires us to keep pushing forward to bring the next great project in our community to life.

About Seattle architecture firm Board & Vellum – Our team works on architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture projects.

Our Team

Our team of passionate creative professionals not only love the work we do, but thrive working together. Our enthusiasm translates directly to our projects, and we pair team members with clients and projects we think will be a great fit.

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