Keri Murray Architecture

We own a 200 year old historic home in Easton, MA. We worked with Keri to help us plan an addition that would add improved functionality for our family of 5, while honoring and integrating seamlessly with the unique and special historical heritage of the home. Keri has a wonderful penchant for working with older homes, which is what drew us to her in the first place. She was excellent to work with and was very thorough, timely, and attentive to our desires throughout the design process.

Keri and her team have been a joy to work with. They are organized, open, and efficient. They took our pile of disorganized ideas and turned them into a gorgeous, thoughtful, three dimensional design. We’re moving into construction now and can’t wait to see the project come to life. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Keri Murray Architecture.

We just moved into our new home so I felt compelled to write this review. We had lived in our neighborhood for decades and raised our family there. We connected with Keri about remodeled our dated home. The neighborhood, we felt, could only accommodate a certain price for homes so we didn't want to out price the market. After explaining this we started the process with Keri. She was very professional and attentive to our needs for the space and for the anticipated budget. After some work she suggested that it would be more effective - given the age of our home and the zoning/requirements - that it would be more cost effective to rebuild on the site. We went through the process of design and specifying the new space. This process was extensive and prolonged - because of our schedule more than Keri's. We had several sessions where I questioned whether this was "doable" within the budget - which we had specified in the $700-800K range from the onset. The process to get to the drawings we could get quoted cost more than $30,000 including surveys - this was consistent with her fee schedule. When we went to get a quote, initially from her recommended builder, it was stunning at $1.8M or more than double our budget and dramatically outpriced not just for the neighborhood but for the town. Her reaction to our dismay was to state they she was not responsible for construction costs or the builder's quotes. We tried several more builders with the same result. Keri did offer to dramatically downsize the design. Keri was personable and professional, but I cannot rate the service highly. It is beyond incomprehensible that this type of miss on cost resulted. A 10% or 15% variance I could see but certainly not well over 100%. The $30,000 we paid resulted in a design that is unbuildable in that area. We moved on to finding a new home. A very disappointing and expensive experience.

Kathy and I have had the of pleasure working with Keri and Nate in the initial planning phase and complete construction drawings for our major renovation project. Our home was an old Cape built in the early 50's and had undergone various renovations over the years. We were looking to update and increase the size of our kitchen, create an open floor plan for entertaining families and friends and to establish first floor living area. Keri listened and understood our needs and turned them into a reality. We had multiple meetings face to face and zoom to review the various designs and updates of the project. Keri provided a complete drawing package that we took to our contractor. In the end the project included and new kitchen and large dining entertaining area, larger stairs to the basement and 2nd floor. Also added a new powder room with washer and dryer, relocate and enlarge a bathroom with easy accessibility with a walker and a relocated and enlarged first floor bedroom with walk in closet. We are in the final construction phase and look forward to enjoying the space. Keri and Nate: Thank you for your creativity and design work and we wish you well.

Keri is warm, transparent, articulate, and precise. She really did a great job with our house's design and coming up with ideas and plans to fix difficult problems in the structure of our house. I highly recommend her!

Highly professional, within budget, fun to work with, extremely creative - can't recommend KMA highly enough. Thanks to Keri and Nate we have the kitchen of our dreams - one we would never have envisioned without their encouragement and expertise.

We chose Keri as our architect because we knew upon meeting her that she would be the best fit to balance all the history and uniqueness of our home with a much needed update and modernization. Keri was organized, communicative, on time, and just a pleasure to work with. She was flexible in how and when we met, always available on phone or email, and continues to stay in touch with us as we exit the design phase and find the right contractor to make her work a reality. We would gladly work with her again.

We thought we were out of our element trying to plan a renovation and small addition to a house we'd never set foot in, from 3000 miles away! But Keri made the project come to life with suggestions that wouldn't have even occurred to us. Each time we traveled to what was to be our new home, planning sessions with her were fruitful and professional. She coordinated nicely with our interior designer so that we could see a vision of what our possibilities could be. Our project is now underway and it's easy to see how Keri's vision on paper is coming to fruition on the job. We would highly recommend her services for anyone, with any sized job.

Keri was wonderful to work with from start to finish. She helped us to reimagine our first floor and designed an office addition. She listened to our vision and brought it to life. Keri is easy to work with, thoughtful, reasonable, and on time! She understands families well, how they use a space, considering organizational needs, etc. She also consults on all aspects of design and has a great eye. I will update with photos of the project once construction is completed.

Imaginative and attractive redesign of an old garage with a small upstairs apartment into a charming, convenient cottage matching the style of the 1906 main house, designed to allow us to comfortably 'age in place' with all needed services at ground level and an added accessible stairway to an upstairs room and basement.

We had an outstanding experience working with Keri Murray, and would highly recommend her. She listened so carefully to what we were hoping to do with a pretty significant house remodeling project, and she took the time to really understand what our needs were. She provided different ideas to accomplish our goals, and she was so responsive and fun to work with through the whole process. The 3D models she provided were very helpful for us to envision how the design would come to life. We really appreciated the time she spent with us and the way she was able to make it an exciting, collaborative process. She is also just clearly so knowledgeable, and it was comforting to have someone leading this process who was so amazingly competent and professional every step of the way. Our experience could not have been better, and we walked away with a design that we feel great about.

We interviewed architects for 1 year before finding Keri. I spoke with several of her past clients in my area, and they all had wonderful things to say about her and her work. Now, I will add my 5-star review to her list of many. We hired Keri to reimagine our 1915's house in Winchester and provide a design for our remodel. Our build-budget was tight for the amount of work required. Keri did a great job keeping our budget in-focus while accomplishing our design goals. She was fun to work with, and she came up with a design that exceded our expections. All the design options were showed using her 3D Viewer, so we could easily envision each area. Her software was super helpful. We are now starting the build phase of our project, and Keri has continued to support us by helping with interior design, recommending different trades and helping us think though some tough decisions. Keri was a great fit for us, and I would definitely use her again.