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This garden was designed around a live oak that was here long before the house was.

The pool axis, the pediment gate, the lawn running all the way through — everything was oriented to make that tree the center of the composition rather than something you work around.

Swipe to see what this yard looked like when we were still figuring out how to build something worthy of it.

Last one in the series. Three different projects this week. Three spaces that looked like nothing and became something.
This is the work we love most.

📍 Baton Rouge, LA
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Which of the three transformations this week surprised you most?

The arch and the oval window are two details worth noticing in this kitchen.

Both were decided early and both stayed through every revision — which is rarer than it sounds. At the framing stage a project is still fluid. Budgets get pressure-tested, timelines shift, and details that seemed certain have a way of becoming negotiable. These two never did.

Swipe to see what they looked like before the walls closed in around them.

Different project from Tuesday. Same idea — showing you the moments most firms never let you see.

One more in this series on Friday.
📍 Baton Rouge, LA
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What detail caught your eye first in the finished photo?

This staircase stopped people the first time they walked in.

The curve, the height, the cylindrical column at the base — it’s the kind of architectural moment that looks like it was always going to be there. It wasn’t. It was framed entirely by hand from a raw concrete floor up.

Swipe to see what this space looked like before any of that was possible to imagine.

This is the first of three this week — three different projects, three spaces that looked like nothing and became something. Follow along.

📍 Baton Rouge, LA
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This is the butler’s pantry — and it does more work than any other room in the house.

Every morning this family is in here making coffee, warming bottles, getting the day started. It needed to function at that pace without looking like it was working that hard.

The best rooms in a home are the ones that fit the life being lived in them. This one was designed around a 6am routine — and it still looks like this.

📍 Broussard, Louisiana — 2026 Acadiana Parade of Homes
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DM us if you’re designing or building and want every room to work this hard.

The croissants were not our idea but we fully support them. 🥐

A breakfast nook sounds simple until you’re actually making the decisions — the hutch finish, the pendant fabric, the chair style, the table shape, how all of it sits together without looking like a showroom.

We went with the toile pendant because it adds pattern without adding color, which gave us room to keep everything else quiet and let the arched hutch be the moment.

📍 Broussard, Louisiana — 2026 Acadiana Parade of Homes
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We fought for the checkerboard floor.

Not everyone was convinced at first — a marble checkerboard feels like a commitment, and it is. But it’s also the decision that makes everything else in this kitchen land.

The dark walnut island reads completely differently against it than it would on a wood floor. The cabinetry feels lighter. The whole room gets a point of view.

That’s how material selections actually work at this level. One decision changes the math on every other one. We knew the floor was right before we knew anything else about this kitchen.

📍 Broussard, Louisiana — 2026 Acadiana Parade of Homes
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Reality

The story behind the work — as it appears in this month’s

May, 2026.

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The kitchen is where a home either earns its price point or doesn’t.

This one earns it.

Book-matched marble island and backsplash. Bleached white oak cabinetry. Steel casement windows. Every material doing exactly what it was chosen to do — nothing competing, nothing missing.

Save this one if a kitchen like this is on your list.

📍 Baton Rouge, LA
🌿 Ivy Residential Concepts