Custom Homes at Board & Vellum – Seattle Architecture & Design Firm

Custom Homes

Designing and building a custom home from the ground up can be both deeply personal and highly complex. Our integrated design teams — architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture — can help you navigate the process with ease to create a home and property you love from indoors to out.

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Legacy Properties

The design of comprehensive estates is a tremendous undertaking. For complex properties, our integrated team takes a collaborative and holistic approach, telling the story of your home, inside and out, in seamless experiences that honor the past, celebrate the present, and look to the future.

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Remodels & Additions

Our teams delight in home remodel projects of all shapes, sizes, and styles. Whether you’re adding on or remodeling in place, love a traditional look or prefer a sleek, modern feel — we relish the challenge of transforming a house that’s not quite right into a home you love.

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Residential Interiors

The finishing touches interior design adds to a project make it feel truly special and uniquely personal. From simply helping to select a few finishes, to engaging in comprehensive interior design services, our interiors team loves to collaborate with you to create beautiful, meaningful spaces you’ll be delighted to call home.

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Residential Landscapes at Board & Vellum – Seattle Landscape Architecture Firm

Residential Landscapes

Our site design team cohesively blends indoor and outdoor living with beautiful, functional spaces verdant with life and rich with built amenities. Whether you simply need a backyard refresh, or if you’re seeking comprehensive design services for your entire property, we love to design dynamic outdoor spaces.

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Accessory Structures

Accessory structures can help you make the most of your property — adding functional space for a variety of needs in a small package. Our multidisciplinary team loves solving the unique challenges of designing ADUs and outbuildings of all shapes, sizes, and scopes.

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Records Galore

Careful detailing went into designing the dimensions of the shelves in the record room for a perfect and efficient fit. Rhapsody in Walnut | Photo by Miranda Estes.

Records Galore

Careful detailing went into designing the dimensions of the shelves in the record room for a perfect and efficient fit. Rhapsody in Walnut | Photo by Miranda Estes.

Mount Baker Historic Craftsman – Board & Vellum
Gathering Space

Clustered around a pair of nested coffee tables, the couch and armchairs offer comfortable seating and extra textural detail. Mount Baker Historic Craftsman | Photo by Miranda Estes.

Gathering Space

Clustered around a pair of nested coffee tables, the couch and armchairs offer comfortable seating and extra textural detail. Mount Baker Historic Craftsman | Photo by Miranda Estes.

Modern Kitchen in a Craftsman Home – Board & Vellum
Seamless Transitions

Lanai-style doors create an open connection between the dining area and outdoor deck, creating opportunities for entertaining, family gatherings, and simply taking advantage of beautiful days. Modern Kitchen in a Craftsman Home | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Seamless Transitions

Lanai-style doors create an open connection between the dining area and outdoor deck, creating opportunities for entertaining, family gatherings, and simply taking advantage of beautiful days. Modern Kitchen in a Craftsman Home | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Magnolia View Home – Remodeled Home in Seattle’s Magnolia Neighborhood – Board & Vellum
A Place for Everything

These kitchen cabinets and drawers are full of innovative storage features so pots, pans, plates, and more all have a designated place. Magnolia View Home | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

A Place for Everything

These kitchen cabinets and drawers are full of innovative storage features so pots, pans, plates, and more all have a designated place. Magnolia View Home | Photo by Andrew Giammarco.

Technical credentials and design finesse.

We strike the right balance, and dynamically adapt to your project’s needs.

Building or remodeling a single-family residence is a complex undertaking. You want a team with both the vision and the deep technical knowledge to create a home that’s functional, feels just right for you, and that stands the test of time. That’s where we come in. We believe the design process should be tailored to you, transparent, and a delight from start to finish. We deliver personalized service, relish the opportunity to solve tough problems, and bring an ego-free, client-centered approach to every stage of your project.

Cabins in Eastern Washington - Custom Residential Design by Board & Vellum

Holistic Design

For multidisciplinary projects, our integrated teams of architects, interior designers, and landscape architects communicate seamlessly to create holistic design solutions leading to beautiful finished homes and properties.

Collective Experience

Projects of all sizes, including single-discipline projects, benefit from our approach with easy access to the depth and breadth of our team’s decades (and decades) of collective expertise.

Right-Sized Approach

We leverage our deep well of knowledge to navigate projects with a right-sized approach. We revel in problem solving, from finding outside-the-box design solutions, to harnessing specialized technical expertise to resolve complicated permitting issues.

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Values-Driven

Led by a values-driven, client-first approach, we believe transparency is paramount to project success. We love sharing knowledge and welcome you into any aspect of the design process you’re curious to explore.

Creative Partnerships

Through years of bringing custom projects to fruition, we’ve developed a network of creative partnerships with furniture designers, artists, lighting designers, metal fabricators, and more. So, when adding custom pieces helps the vision sing, collaboration is a breeze.

Purchasing, Installation & Styling

If you’re planning on new furniture, art, or decor for your spaces, not only can we select pieces to create a cohesive vision, but we offer purchasing, installation, and styling, so you have one less thing to juggle.

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Feasibility & Pre-Purchase Walk-Throughs

Not sure exactly what your project will entail? Don’t worry. Our services are structured to help you refine your goals and align them with your budget and home, even if you haven’t purchased it yet.

Projects Large & Small

Whether you’re planning a targeted refresh or exploring options for a comprehensive design for your entire property, we strive to make every part of your home something you will love for years to come.

Seattle & Beyond

Seattle is our home base, but we take on projects both near and far. If you’re located somewhere else, don’t hesitate to ask: we have licenses in a variety of states across the country.

Laurelhurst Storybook Residence – Architecture, Interior Design, and Landscape Architecture by Board & Vellum
Terracing the Landscape

Adding the large retaining wall enabled the previsously-sloping yard to have two large, level areas: the terrace above and the expanse of grass below. Laurelhurst Storybook Residence | Photo by Meghan Montgomery.

Terracing the Landscape

Adding the large retaining wall enabled the previsously-sloping yard to have two large, level areas: the terrace above and the expanse of grass below. Laurelhurst Storybook Residence | Photo by Meghan Montgomery.

Integrated design services are worth your while.

Take advantage of the efficiencies and cohesive design of a one-stop-shop.

Designing a truly great home requires a comprehensive, effective, and iterative creative process. There are always unknowns at the beginning, and we know that can be a bit nerve-wracking. Our team is experienced and thoughtful, always keeping in mind that even though we do this every day, we know you will have all kinds of questions. Our design process is inclusive, informative, and structured to get you up to speed and equipped to make meaningful, confident decisions.

Sketches of floor plan options during the Schematic Design phase of a home remodel project. – Board & Vellum, Custom Residential Design Services
Three Schematic Design Options: Floor Plan A

Option A maintains most of the existing layout of the house. The focus is on bringing in light from the south, moving the entry location to the north, and integrating the elevator into the existing stair core. Mercer Island Estate | Sketch by Board & Vellum.

Three Schematic Design Options: Floor Plan A

Option A maintains most of the existing layout of the house. The focus is on bringing in light from the south, moving the entry location to the north, and integrating the elevator into the existing stair core. Mercer Island Estate | Sketch by Board & Vellum.

Sketches of floor plan options during the Schematic Design phase of a home remodel project. – Board & Vellum, Custom Residential Design Services
Three Schematic Design Options: Floor Plan B

Option B expands the living space over the existing deck and connects the deck with the landscape below. The existing front door remains, and a back door opens to a foyer. Mercer Island Estate | Sketch by Board & Vellum.

Three Schematic Design Options: Floor Plan B

Option B expands the living space over the existing deck and connects the deck with the landscape below. The existing front door remains, and a back door opens to a foyer. Mercer Island Estate | Sketch by Board & Vellum.

Sketches of floor plan options during the Schematic Design phase of a home remodel project. – Board & Vellum, Custom Residential Design Services
Three Schematic Design Options: Floor Plan C

Option C includes a detached garage and expands the deck both to the south and east. Folding doors wrap around the living room and open to an outdoor kitchen. Mercer Island Estate | Sketch by Board & Vellum.

Three Schematic Design Options: Floor Plan C

Option C includes a detached garage and expands the deck both to the south and east. Folding doors wrap around the living room and open to an outdoor kitchen. Mercer Island Estate | Sketch by Board & Vellum.

No matter what type of project plan you’re hatching, our interdisciplinary team of architects, interior designers, and landscape architects is an invaluable asset to address any and all needs that may arise. It’s important to our entire team to develop options that feel right to you, and we’re passionate about working with people who love design as much as we do.

Highlights from our custom residential portfolio.

No matter what type or size of project, we put our hearts into our work. It is our goal to collaborate with you to create a space you’ll love.

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.

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.

A kitchen with a California feel: blue painted base cabinets and bright red accents.
A Green Home with Midcentury Cali Vibes

Fremont High-Performing Home

A green home with solar panels, a rainwater cistern for graywater irrigation, sheep’s wool insulation, and passive cooling strategies.

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.

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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.

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.
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Japanese-Inspired Shoreline Garden

Landscape at Makai House

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

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