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How to Build a Home with Accessibility in Mind
Congratulations! You’ve decided to build a custom home. No matter how old you are now, you probably hope to stay in this home for years to come – which means planning for the future. When you embark on building a custom home, you may be single, in a committed...
How to Design a Home Gym
You’ve decided to design and build a custom home! Before you contact a designer like Acipe Design, or think about breaking ground, there are some things to get off the To Do List right away. Like dreaming up your perfect layout and everything in it. Multiple bedrooms...
How to Plan for Future Expansion in Custom Home Design
Congratulations! You’ve decided to design and build a custom home. You may have big dreams for what you want in your home today, but have you thought about how your home will serve you into the future? Building a custom home is a big investment – time, money, heart,...
How to Design a Functional and Stylish Home Office
The home office is a versatile space. Before 2020, it may have been an actual office space for people who ran businesses out of their home, or it may have simply been the room where the computer and other ‘office’ equipment like a desktop computer, printer, and other...
The Benefits of Building a Net Zero Energy Home
You’ve decided to build a custom home! There are many things to think about, including where you’ll build, the design style, the materials, fixtures, and finishes that will make the house a home you’ll live in for years to come. You may have considered green building...
How to Create a Multi-Functional Space
Many older homes have clearly defined lines between living room, kitchen, dining room, and bedrooms. The defined sections are achieved by walls and doors that separate one room from the next. With the rise of open floor plans starting in the 1950s and taking serious...
How to Choose the Perfect Lot for Your Custom Home
Before you even start working with an architect or designer to create the plans for your dream home, you have to find a place to put it. Just as with the search for the perfect pre-existing home can take weeks or months, so can the search for the perfect lot for your...
The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Perfect Color Palette
Your custom home is a reflection of you: your taste and style, including the building materials you choose – glass, wood, brick, stone – as well as the colors you choose. Interior design is one of the last things many people consider, but considering the final look of...
Sweet Mother’s Day Gifts for Your Designer or Architect Mom
She’s “Mom” to you, but to her clients, she’s the one who has breathed life into their dream home. Home designers, architects, interior designers, and contractors come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and backgrounds, including moms. Mom loves getting any gift from their...
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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.