Guideline Studios, LLC

I thoroughly enjoyed the process of designing my custom home with Guideline Studios. The process took many months ( as I expected it would ) but throughout the process, Mike was completely engaged and patient as we worked through several iterations tweaking to the finest detail. Mike is very experienced, and full of good advice and guidance. I would highly recommend Guideline Studios.

Mike is so fantastic to work with! He developed a plan for our kitchen remodel to make much better use of our space in our 1950’s house. He was detail oriented and included exactly what we are hoping for in the final design. He also gave some great recommendations of contractors to work with. We are now in the process of obtaining bids for this project and are excited!

We had an excellent experience working with Mike on a design for our whole-house renovation project. He was extremely responsive to all our communications and came up with creative and clever solutions to our design problems. He'll be our first call should we ever need design work done in the future.

Mike was very helpful with designing our house. He listened to what we wanted and made any changes that we wanted very quickly. We were very happy with our experience.

Michael did a stellar job with the drawings of our house. He's an excellent communicator and always responded in timely manner. I highly recommend Guideline Studios.

Mike was great to work work. The level of detail in his work was beyond our expectations. I would highly recommend him.

We worked with Mike to come up with plans for a kitchen remodel/expansion. Our home is almost a century old, so it comes with unique character and considerations. Mike provided us with amazing plans for the project, taking these considerations into account so that our upgrade would be consistent with the character of our home. He was a great communicator throughout and we couldn't recommend him more highly.

Phenomenal. Genuine. Imaginative These words are just the beginning of our description of interactions that we had working with Mike at Guideline Studios during the design phase of our home remodeling project. Mike immediately implemented a thoughtful, genuine, and personal process of getting to know us and our current site. He spent time with our family and really listened to what we wanted. We felt heard and understood throughout the process. We ran into a host of zoning issues throughout the process and Mike advised us/navigated each one with grace and punctuality that allowed us to move forward with a design that retained our vision while also maximizing functionality. We would absolutely recommend Guideline Studios to anyone who is looking for architectural work.

Working with Mike at Guideline Studios was seamless. He was easy to work with and very knowledgeable. I would highly recommend and work with him again.

Guideline Studios (Mike) did an amazing job putting my ideas along with his own expertise onto paper and into my dream cottage! This is the 2nd project he designed for me and as usual he did not disappoint. His creativity and attention to details and space made my family's "Happy Place" a reality!

We hired Mike to design plans for a new ~2000 sqft single family house. He started the process by having a conversation with us to get an overall impression of what we were looking for, along with specific details/features we wanted included. From there, he quickly drew up three rough proposals as starting points. He had understood our preferences well; the one we chose had very little we wanted to change. Those minor changes came through a few easy, sensible iterations. The whole process was remote - a video call for the initial conversation and emails for the rest - and not only was the communication perfectly smooth, we thought the email back-and-forth was the best possible approach. We found Mike to have just the right balance of providing us with his expertise (both creative and practical) and getting our input. Iterating from an initial rough but complete proposal made the process easy for us: we didn’t need any architecture skills of our own; we were just making tweaks, and we didn’t even make that many. However, the end result still felt very much “ours”, thanks to his understanding from our initial conversation. While iterating, he offered useful suggestions of his own, making his expertise available, but without trying to steer anything himself. Additionally, he did all of his work with our ultimate budget as a hard constraint, and would point out the cost for expensive suggestions. We’re really glad we hired Mike, and more generally went the route of hiring an independent architect. We would recommend this approach (and Mike in particular) to anyone in the position to build a house, with no exceptions we can think of.

We recently worked with Mike to design a master suite and screen porch addition on our 100 year old folk Victorian. Mike really listened to our current pain points and what we were trying to accomplish. His design incorporated our ideas and he provided creative solutions to help us make the most out of our existing space. The end design is one that blends well into the existing architecture while still giving us what we wanted. Mike was very meticulous, responsive and an overall pleasure to work with. We highly recommend Guideline Studios.