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A bright kitchen in a single-family home, with a solarium on the far wall, allowing ample light to illuminate the room. There is a large kitchen island in the foreground, and a bank of built-in cabinets to the left.
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Glass House Reverie | Photo by Kara Mercer.

New
A Unique Home Reimagined

Glass House Reverie

A playful, historic home reimagined into unique yet cohesive spaces with custom details, bold color, and modern functionality.

New
Timeless Design for Modern Living

Serene Modern Tudor

This remodel harmonizes an imbalanced interior through intentional detailing, curated materials, and a focus on long-term livability.

A close up of the sink, mirror, and wallpaper in a small powder room. The mirror is silver and round above a white quartzite sink with polished nickel hardware. To the right of the sink is a window with oxblood red painted trim.
Cool Tones

Periwinkle wallpaper featuring a maroon flower pattern nods to the warm tones of the lower level while adding in bold, cool tone to the small powder room. Modern Oak Craftsman | Photo by Alessandra Brescia.

New
Maximizing Space in a Small Footprint

Modern Oak Craftsman

Modern interiors in traditional forms bring openness, storage, and warmth to a family home.

Queen Anne Commercial Conversion – Office-to-Housing Conversion – Rendering by Board & Vellum
Exterior Updates

Strategic updates to the building’s exterior — like a high-contrast paint upgrade — celebrate its commercial origin while bringing it into the 21st century with a new use. Queen Anne Commercial Conversion | Project Rendering by Board & Vellum

Under Construction
Adaptive Reuse of a 1980s Office Building

Queen Anne Commercial Conversion

A commercial-to-residential conversion transforming an unassuming building into a sustainable and vibrant multifamily community.

Rhapsody in Walnut – Custom Home Remodel – Board & Vellum – Architecture & Interior Design
A Modern Update to a Historic Home

Rhapsody in Walnut

A modern update brings this traditional, historic house into the 21st century with a balanced and approachable eclectic style.

Rendering of a proposed project lifting a traditional home to build a restaurant underneath.
Under Construction
Converting to Mixed-Use to Maximize an Urban Lot

Shophouse Meets Brownstone

An urban living trifecta: traditional foursquare home, meets street-level café space, plus a brownstone, all in one.

Looking back to Makai House from the water. In the foreground is grassy landscape near the shoreline. Behind is the manicured yard of the house. The house is to the right and lit up by the setting sun.
Japanese-Inspired Shoreline Garden

Landscape at Makai House

A Japanese-inspired garden and an environmentally responsive shoreline ecosystem on a waterfront property.

Matthias Academy – Board & Vellum
On the Boards
Feasibility & Conceptual Design for a Campus

Matthias Academy

A multipurpose campus providing housing, education, employment, and community to adults with special needs.

Mount Baker Historic Craftsman - Before & After Pair – Board & Vellum
Classic Restoration Meets Modern Living

Mount Baker Historic Craftsman

A classic Craftsman home with great bones, remodeled and restored to take it into its next 100 years, adapted for a modern lifestyle.

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Board & Vellum offers design services in architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture, for private residences, multifamily and mixed-use buildings, commercial environments, campuses and organizations, and civic spaces, like parks.

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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.

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