Ashcroft House
NEW BUILD
ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGN
Buildings that hold their ground.
A residential architecture and interior design studio working across Seattle and the Puget Sound. We design new houses, extensions, and the interiors that finish them.
SELECTED WORK
All projectsHouses, extensions, and interiors.
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A three-bedroom house stepping down a wooded slope, built around a courtyard that holds the light.
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A warehouse floor turned into a home, keeping the timber and brick and adding only what the plan needed.
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A rear extension that opens a dark ground floor to the garden without losing the original rooms.
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WHAT WE DO
Three ways to work with the studio.
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Architecture
New houses, extensions, and remodels, from first sketch through to construction.
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Interior design
Kitchens, joinery, bathrooms, and the material decisions that make a plan feel finished.
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Planning & feasibility
An honest read on what a site will allow before you commit to a full design.
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HOW A PROJECT RUNS
Five stages, and what you decide at each.
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Feasibility
A first read on the site, the budget, and what is likely to get consent. Ends with a written brief and a fee proposal.
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Concept design
Plans and a first sense of the building, with material and layout options tested against each other.
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Developed design
The design resolved to planning submission. Drawings, and the reports the authority will ask for.
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Technical design
Construction drawings and specification, ready for tender. This is what a builder prices.
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Construction
Tender, contractor selection, and regular site review until the building is handed over.
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Completion
Snagging, the operations and maintenance file, and a final walk-through with the contractor.
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THE STUDIO
Small on purpose.
Site first
The building answers the ground, the light, and the neighbours before it answers a style.
Plain drawings
Detail is where a project is won or lost, so the drawings go out clear enough to build from.
Honest budgets
We test cost at every stage rather than waiting until tender to find out.
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RECOGNITION
Awards and press.
- Sample regional housing award, shortlist
- Sample feature on small-house design
- Sample emerging practice listing
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FROM CLIENTS
What people say afterwards.
They talked us out of the extension we thought we wanted and showed us a better plan for less money. We ended up with more light and a kitchen that works.
The drawings were clear enough that three builders priced them the same way, which told us the design was finished. That had not happened on our last project.
They were honest about what our budget would and would not buy, early, when we could still change course.
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Have a site, or a plan that is not working?
Tell us what you are trying to do and we will say honestly whether we are the right studio for it.