
About Us
EMK Designs is a residential design studio providing creative and practical custom home designs to suit your lifestyle with remarkable attention to detail and plans builders love.
Before you start any housing project, whether it's a simple addition to your existing home or a custom home to fit your exclusive property, EMK Designs can help make your dream a reality. Listed below are a few of the services we provide to start the journey.
•A visit to your home or building site to discuss the general scope and intent of the project.
•Basic measurements and photographs may be taken for reference.
•Basic design options will be discussed at the meeting; rough sketches can be created to help facilitate the discussion and options.
•Once the meeting has concluded you will know the scope and the rough design of your project.
•Experience gained from the meeting is applied in preparing a design contract for further consideration.
When we move forward, we will keep you well informed during the entire project lifespan ensuring a smooth process. During the construction document phase you will see your project become a reality by receiving periodic progress sets.
Once the drawings are complete you can then use them to obtain the appropriate building permits, determine materials (if not already specified), and gather bids from potential builders/contractors.
Once construction has started we will work closely with your builder/contractor to ensure successful project completion.
Services Provided
Architectural Design, Architectural Drawings, Basement Design, Bathroom Design, Building Design, Custom Homes, Drafting, Energy-Efficient Homes, Floor Plans, Green Building, Historic Building Conservation, Home Additions, Home Extensions, House Plans, Kitchen Design, Kitchen Remodeling, Space Planning, Sustainable Design, Universal Design, Construction Drawings
Areas Served
Bethany Beach, Bishopville, Dagsboro, Dewey Beach, Fenwick Island, Frankford, Harbeson, Long Neck, Millsboro, Millville, Ocean View, Selbyville, South Bethany, Rehoboth Beach, Ocean City, Berlin, Lewes
15 Projects
Credentials
2 Houzz Awards
3 Houzz Badges
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8 Reviews for EMK Designs

Tabitha Cortijo
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Everything that we asked for, Erik made sure he included in our plans. Every time we had a request, he made it happen. The communication was excellent and I never had to worry about him getting back to me. I cannot wait to see the finished product that Erik created for my family.
January 18, 2017

Comment from EMK Designs:
Thanks for the review, Tabitha; it's been a true pleasure working with both you and Shawn!

Mike Sekscinski
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We had an excellent experience designing an addition to our home with Erik. Erik was very patient, flexible and had great ideas. We feel that our goals for our addition have been exceeded by the design work from Erik. We would recommend Erik to anyone!
August 7, 2016

Ivan O
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Erik from EMK Designs is truly an amazing architect. Talented and hard-working. His ideas are just brilliant.
Erik designed our house, and we couldn't be happier with it!
Our town has an excruciatingly strict building code with limitations for everything. We wanted a million of unusual structural elements including a two-story high living room, spiral staircase, multi-level design, structural details, etc, etc, etc. Erik was able to incorporate all of our wishes, create a brilliant historic concept of a tower in addition to all our demands, design a completely modern and unusual layout of all rooms, and... still meet the town code!
Yes, the house was featured in magazines. Yes, everyone knows our house now. Yes, we get the compliments all the time. All this is Erik's hard work and brilliant design ideas.
In addition to designing our wonderful house, Erik stayed on top of the house construction, carefully managing the implementation of his design ideas.
If you are considering Erik for your house design, you wouldn't be disappointed!

June 19, 2016

HU-77368
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Erik did a great job turning our house ideas into home plans. We are currently building the home now and look forward to living in our house designed for us!
June 16, 2016

marycre8s
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Erik designed my dream home exactly as I envisioned it. He is a very talented architect. I come from a long line of architects & engineers and I enjoyed working with Erik.
June 11, 2016

HU-6824687
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WE hired Erik from EMK Designs and he has been absolutely wonderful to work with. In a very short amount of time he was able to provide us with a full set of "as built" drawings. This gave us a starting point from which my wife and I could work with Erik to redesign our entire house and ultimately increase our livable area by nearly 1000 square feet. His thoughtful consideration and his ability to work with multiple changes (stemming from us) has been an excellent experience. I would highly recommend anyone thinking of remodeling their existing home, extending their home, or just simply have a full set of "as built" plans should seriously consider hiring EMK designs. Thank you Erik I can not wait to begin construction this fall!




June 9, 2016Last modified:June 9, 2016

Jeff McCracken
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Working with EMK was easy and I got great results. Erik was easy to work with, provided great ideas and checked in frequently during the project.
June 8, 2016

caco357
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We highly recommend EMK Designs. We met EMK/Erik after many meetings with potential contractors and designers. Most gave us the impression that our dream beach home would be based on their ideas, but Erik actually listened. He then took our ideas, needs/wants and sketches and transformed them into *our* blueprint--one that we could use for bid, to guide the construction process, and keep us within budget.
Ours was a complete reno utilizing the foundation as a footprint. Erik used that existing framework to create a stunning yet economically practical design. Not all designers stay actively involved during construction, but Erik did--beyond his contracted follow-up. Early on he caught a significant contractor framing error which he corrected directly with the site contact. He even got involved with design ideas beyond his scope of work and provided great suggestions all in keeping with our style.
We feel our investment with EMK Designs was money well spent and saved us money overall. (Too) many times the contractor would attempt to negotiate line items that fortunately for us, EMK had detailed clearly in our plan. Anyone considering a construction project should not skip this critical planning step, particularly if you want your requirements heard and included in the construction of your home.
June 6, 2016
3 Comments
Commented: Paint or Stain Color?That is Hardie siding Mountain Sage.
March 28, 2019
Commented: New Build CostTerry, for a house like this one, I think you can expect to be in the $185 - $200 per S.F. range. You're correct in that the finishes drive the price. The cost of the "box" will be the sam...
February 18, 2018
Commented: Color of Shingles?I will find out and let you know.
September 6, 2017
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