Pippin Home Designs, Inc

We could not be more pleased with the whole design experience provided by Jenny at Pippin Home Designs. We started with a very wide brief having never built a home before. Jenny walked us through the whole process, start to finish. Not only was the insights very helpful in determining how to meet our budget and design intent, Jenny provided the special touches that made the project our home. And finally, Jenny is just a good person and a pleasure to know!

We actually sought Jenny out after finding one of her existing plans and absolutely fell in love. In collaborating with her and her team, she was able to edit and design the home to make it unique to our preferences and style, ultimately crafting our dream home. From start to finish, she has been not only very professional and a delight to work with, but it is very apparent she has a wealth of knowledge and expertise stemming from her years of work. We can't express how many pieces of advice she provided that made such a big impact and she ultimately went above and beyond to help us until the very end. Jenny's design eye is unmatched, and all the Pippin Home Designs awards just proves that hard work. Her firm is also committed to sustainability in each build with environmental stewardship as an important value. It was such a pleasure to work with the team and we would absolutely recommend them over and over. Thank you, Jenny, and we cannot wait to invite you to the housewarming!

The journey to build our forever home started with a search for an architect over three years ago. It was important to find someone who we would connect with and understand our needs not just our wants. Reviewing the Pippen Home Designs website, I knew we found "the one". Jenny Pippen is the first person we hired to build our home. It has been a long journey for us. We started with the intent to remodel a classic Lake Norman cottage. When it became clear we could not get the house we wanted using the original structure, it was Jenny who helped us to make the decision to move forward with a new build. Her mentoring meant so much to me. Jenny is an architect with unquestionable competence, knowledge and experience. What sets her apart from very good architects and makes her the GOAT, is her ability to read clients, understand what they need even when it difficult for us to articulate what we needed and her team approach. Through her strong interpersonal skills she has built a solid cadre of builders, designers and other key people needed when building a home. Jenny is much more than a highly skilled architect. She designs homes for people and each design is built around the lifestyle and wellness of the people who will live in the house. We are in the construction stage working with a great builder Jenny recommended. You will not find anyone better to work with.

This was our first experience with an architecture firm. Pippin Home Designs was one of the firms our builder recommended. I see why and we are so thankful we selected Pippin! Jenny took our emotional words and specific ideas to create our tangible forever home plans that gave us goose bumps. We can’t wait for build completion and move-in next year! PROS for Jenny Pippin: Great listener, Calm voice of experience and knowledge during stress, Met our challenges with creativity, Thorough, Detail oriented, Driven to create something beautiful

We recently completed an extensive remodel and redesign of our forever lake home. Although this was not our first experience with remodels, we knew there would be challenges as we were working with a foundation built in the 1970’s with many odd angles, unknowns behind the drywall and living space that had some functional issues for us. We had heard wonderful reviews from trusted folks who worked with Jenny Pippin. When we contacted her, she was very responsive and provided us with relevant information as to what to expect at each stage in the process. Jenny truly cared about our vision and listened intently during our walkthrough at the property. She asked about our wish list, priorities and budget while asking thought provoking questions and providing valuable insight from design to budget. We moved into our dream home one month ago and could not be more thrilled with Jenny and her team. We highly recommend working with Jenny and Pippin Home Designs, Inc. is at the top of our list for any future projects.

From the very beginning to the very end Jenny was an absolute jewel in this process of making my dream home a reality! Her vision and attention to detail was magnificent! Every step of this journey was absolutely professional and perfect we couldn’t have ask for anything more! The Locklear’s

Our home design project was the renovation of a 1600 square foot log cabin which was encapsulated by conventional stick-frame construction ( not logs) on all sides. Our vision was to retain the character of the “lake house cabin” while creating a larger lodge style home. Jenny Pippin created the look and feel by incorporating great architectural lines with functional space planning. Jenny Pippin and team were always responsive to our ideas and desires, and worked with us to resolve design-build challenges along the way. Sent from my iPad

Jenny has the most amazing vision and was able to take my vague description of how we were trying to transform our house and truly make it even better then I could have imagined! We liked her designs so much she is now doing our parents house. Once again i am blown away at how she took a seemingly impossible house and transformed it. The attention to detail and overall quality is unmatched.

We engaged Jenny to help us renovate our 1987 brick ranch lakefront home, and she was fantastic to work with. We selected Jenny due to her reputation, impressive design portfolio, and most importantly to us, how much collaboration she demonstrated in the review process. We interviewed several architects and many were great, but we had concerns about their design insistence and how willing they would be to incorporate other points of view. Jenny was very open to often contradictory views on the design, and worked through them with us ultimately leading to a fantastic design. As far as the design itself, we were very satisfied with the process. We thought she did a great job utilizing and expanding upon current load bearing walls and roof lines to keep the restructuring effort contained to our budget. She met at our home in person several times and over video calls throughout the 6-7 month design process to iterate and refine the design. She made a concerted effort to really design our home around our family and desired use, and we did not feel rushed or dismissed during discussions. She would take our concerns and ideas seriously and offer constructive feedback and/or integrate our ideas. We are very happy with the end product, and can now appreciate many of the little details that she took into consideration during the design. Little things like light switch positions and door types, to big things like how walls effect eye lines, how rooms flow, and how to accommodate kids’ habits into the design (always make a drop zone!). All in all, we very much enjoyed working with Jenny and would recommend her to all. She has a great eye for how to best utilize space, is great to work with, and produces a great product at the end. 10/10.

My wife and I had an amazing experience working with Jenny on our renovation. We were looking to add square footage to our unique 1300 sq foot cottage here on Lake Norman. There were many challenges we faced, some of which included incorporating the existing stand alone 2 car garage, as well as the separate accessory building. We also had limitations and set backs with regards to our existing septic. In our first face to face meeting, Jenny asked us to walk her though our home (interior and exterior). She listened intently and openly to what we were hoping to accomplish for our family. It was pretty surreal how Jenny, even after only a short time talking with us, the vision and insight she introduced to us on the spot. We felt so fortunate that Jenny was excited to take on our project and help us create something we didn’t know was possible. Jenny truly made the process seamless. Not only is Jenny an extraordinary designer, she is so well organized and so effective at communicating. We are scheduling to break ground end of August 2023 and can’t wait to see Jenny’s vision for our home come to life.

Pippin Home Designs is an amazing design firm! From the first site visit to the final design, Jenny and Wes captured our vision and provided for a well thought out and functional house. The wrap around porch and abundance of windows overlooking our pond has created the perfect modern farmhouse we thoroughly enjoy each and every day. The construction drawings were very detailed and provided our builder a comprehensive blueprint for our project. We could not be happier with our home and our experience with Pippin Home Designs!

We came to Jenny/ Pippin home designs after many boat rides looking at houses and finding out she was the architect on our several favorites. We worked with Jenny on a custom design for a lakefront home. One of the challenges (like many lake lots) was fitting the house and septic and still maximizing the space and design. From our first meeting she was polite and professional and listened to a whole wish list of items and asked questions to understand our vision. She helped guide us balancing design and cost. She even suggested things that were not on our list that would make the house more functional. Our house is still under construction and she has continued to stay in contact and help as needed. We are excited to see our beautiful house being completed! We would highly recommend Pippin home designs for anyone looking for a lake front home!