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How to Choose the Right Furniture for Your Home
You’ve chosen the floor plan, interior, and exterior finishes down to the drawer pulls in the kitchen and the exact shade of siding. You may think that’s all there is when it comes to designing your new custom home. But there’s still one more step: the furniture. You...
How to Build with Natural Disasters in Mind
Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Floods. Tornadoes. Fire. Natural disasters are a fact of life in some locations in the U.S. While the U.S. declares certain times of the year “Hurricane Season” or “Fire Season,” there’s no fool-proof way to plan for it. Hurricane Katrina...
The Benefits of Biophilic Home Design
Whether you’ve been planning to design your dream home for months or years, you likely have a plethora of ideas that will make it stand out from any other home around it. Your unique design ideas relate to both the inside and outside of the house. While some...
Your Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Gift Guide for the Architect or Designer in Your Life
If you're like me, your love is a custom home designer with a love of architecture and interior design. Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and if you and your love don't exchange gifts like heart-shaped chocolates or "I Love You" teddy bears, you may be...
The Importance of Personalization in Home Design
Whether you’ve been planning to design your dream home for months or years, you likely have a plethora of ideas that will make it stand out from any other home around it. Your unique design ideas relate to both the inside and outside of the house. While some...
The Pros and Cons of Prefabricated Homes
You’ve been house shopping for weeks, possibly months, maybe even a year or more, and you haven’t found your forever home. You’ve come to the conclusion that it may not even exist – so you need to build it. Start by contacting Acipe Design to go over your design...
Custom Home Design Trends for 2025
Happy New Year! With the New Year comes new design trends. Whether you plan to build or do a major renovation in 2025, consider incorporating your favorite design elements, as well as ones that reflect the time (and may become timeless). We’ve curated a list of...
Small Space Hacks That Maximize Your Apartment
Don’t limit your style and creativity by the size of your space. In fact, small spaces can be a canvas for big ideas! There are no limits for creativity when it comes to your limited space an apartment of any size offers. The smaller spaces of an apartment can...
The Role of Color in Interior Design
The Role of Color in Interior Design One of the best parts in custom home design is personalizing each space to your taste. Choosing materials like glass, wood, brick, and stone, to exact items like kitchen faucets, the front door, or the kind of flooring you want in...
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Disclaimer: Owner, Acipe Design LLC, and Arid Design LLC is a designer and design firms, not a registered architect or engineer or a registered architecture or engineering firm in any jurisdiction. Owner and company does not imply they or the company is. We contract or engage with architects and engineers as required.
Areas served: We serve customers primarily in Michigan and Arizona (as Arid Design LLC) but we are open to the possibilities of other locations.