Form Function Studio

A lake. A family. A home built to bring them back together, summer after summer.

The Pizza Hut Lake Home was designed for the moments that matter most... long weekends, extended summers, and the kind of slow days that only happen when everyone finally stops and gathers in the same place. For this Cedar Rapids family, that meant designing for the parents aging in place, the adult children coming home, and the grandchildren not yet born.

Two gabled forms organized around the heart of the home. Materials chosen to age with grace. Every room oriented toward the water, because that's where everyone ends up anyway.

This one is going to do its best work over time. And we are so grateful we got to build something that will hold this family well for generations to come.

What do you want your space to create more of?

📍 Lake McBride, Solon IA | New Residential | 6,800 SF
Architecture + Interiors: Form Function Studio | GC: Peyton Construction

The Lakewood Revival started as a primary suite refresh. It became something much bigger.

This was a former custom home builder's own house, bones worth saving, but nearly everything else needed to go. We gutted and reimagined the home from the inside out, touching the living room, primary suite, office, and the entire exterior facade and landscape.

Once we started asking the right questions... how does this family gather, how do they rest, what does hosting actually feel like here, the answers reshaped the project entirely. Flow, light, privacy, the way indoors connects to outdoors. Every decision traced back to how this family actually lives.
These clients have been in our lives for years, and getting to serve them in this chapter meant the world to us.
That's what intentional design does. It doesn't just improve a space. It improves what happens inside one.

Design For More, Cedar Rapids.

📍 Cedar Rapids, IA | Residential Renovation | 1,300 SqFt
Architecture + Interiors: Form Function Studio | GC: Buresh Construction

Some people come to us with baked out plans and drawings. Ali came with a feeling.

She wanted Fox Den to be a destination, a place where guests feel genuinely rooted and stylists feel at home building their own businesses under one roof. That chair rental model shaped everything. Every station, every sightline, every material had to support both the guest experience and the people doing the work.

A lot of what we do is draw the vision out... from your instincts, your values, the things you can't quite articulate yet... and translate it into space, material, and detail that feels unmistakably like you. The walnut sourced from Ali's family farm wasn't our idea. It was hers. We just knew how to put it in the design.

That's what Design For More looks like. Not just missional. Designed. Felt.

What does your space say about what you value?

📍 Coralville, IA | Commercial Build-Out | 2,125 SqFt

Architecture + Interiors: Form Function Studio | GC: DCI Group, Construction Manager [CM] - DCI Group

Before a single line gets drawn, we listen and learn.

Every project starts the same way around here. Not with measurements or mood boards, but with a real conversation. What does your day actually look like? What's getting in the way? What do you want more of?

That's where the design begins. Not on paper. With people.
A home that works for your life is the only kind worth building, and we are so grateful we get to ask those questions alongside the people we serve.

What would you want your space to create more of?

Seven years of Form Function Studio—and we’re just getting started. [Celebrated back in February!]

Grateful for the people, projects, and communities that have shaped this journey. We remain committed to designing spaces that connect, uplift, and elevate everyday life. The partnerships created with our clients, vendors, consultants, contractors have been incredibly uplifting and special to us.

"All Glory is to Him. I deserve nothing and he provides all we need to have impact.
Here’s to what’s been built, what we dreamed of, —and what’s still to come."

Big Love from our Studio to you!
- Paul Desmond, Vision + Design Director

Wishing our friends, near and far a very Merry Christmas! Our studio is blessed to continue another year of Mission impact that allowed us to interact with all walks of life.

From our Vision + Design Director, - “Humbled to be in this journey with these great people (and Doggos!) it’s been a gift that I get to continually steward people with excellence, learn from them, and lean in on lovingly them recklessly, as our greatest gift, loved us.”

Enjoy the final weeks of the year rooted in rest and reflection, and in any season, hopefully, with a sense of gratitude!

We love our little village!

They say it takes a village....gosh, we are so appreciative of the craftswomen and men that have helped us achieve this addition to an amazing family in Springville, IA. To see the care and attention that started with the blank piece of paper, come to this.

It's just awesome. The craft we get to have on the project types we do is such a blessing.