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Every Home Tells A Story
Custom Home Architecture and Design Blog
We believe custom home architecture is about seamlessly uniting your style, lifestyle needs, and budget. Every single-family home we design is entirely unique because our clients are individuals who value homes tailored specifically to how they live.
By listening to our clients and creatively solving design challenges together, we have crafted some remarkable homes each with its own story to tell. Read more about our clients' journeys here. We hope you'll find inspiration and guidance from what we've learned every step of the way.
A Luxury Modern Farmhouse with the Ultimate Backyard Retreat
Architect James Knight anchored the home's design concept around a sprawling, multi-volume footprint tailored specifically to the expansive 4.5-acre lot. This intentional layout establishes a grand, welcoming presence while prioritizing effortless indoor-outdoor connectivity. A defining architectural feature of the front elevation is an elegant arched breezeway linking the main residence to a detached single-car garage.
Craftsman Dream Home in Canton Georgia Blends Vision and Site Challenges
For this home, architect James Knight balanced curb appeal, livable square footage, neighborhood presence, and a few special requests that make the plan feel personal. Those requests included an audiophile’s listening room, a generous front porch for watching the neighborhood, a light-filled stairwell, and a main suite designed as a quiet retreat.
Harpers Creek in Ellijay, GA Is A Developing Home Design From Site Walk to Concept Plan
A mountain home begins long before the first wall is drawn. On a steep lot, the land sets the rules. Access, slope, views, drainage, septic feasibility, and the natural shape of the ridge all affect what the house can become.
Designing Your Dream Home in Jasper, GA
The North Georgia mountains will always draw dreamers. The difference is in how carefully that dream is placed on the ground. With the right property and a design that respects it, a mountain home becomes more than a retreat. It becomes a place that feels inevitable, as if it was waiting there all along.
Contemporary Architecture on a Sloped Lot in Mableton, GA
I met with our client Jen in Metro Atlanta in the summer of 2022 to discuss her vision for a multi-level, contemporary custom home on a challenging, steeply graded .34 acre lot. A home she nicknamed "Outdoor Palatial Sexiness" was envisioned as a luxury home that also featured a subtle, sophisticated showroom for her branded products business.
Embracing the Slope: A Mid-Century Modern Revival in the Georgian Highlands
A pronounced natural slope defines the site. Rather than fighting the grade with massive retaining walls and deep excavations, James Knight’s design strategy embraces the topography. By utilizing a wider building footprint, the design minimizes foundation depths and takes full advantage of a walk-out basement. The resulting massing strategy steps down the hillside gracefully, allowing the home to read as a grounded, natural form that integrates seamlessly with the landscape.
Blue Ridge Forever Home Expansion for a Solar Ready Mountain Home
We partnered with our client to bring an architectural design perspective to the process. With 23 years of experience as a commercial interior designer, she is both creative and a deeply informed collaborator. Lead Architect James Knight of Reynard Architectural Designs leads the project, with design decisions guided by one clear idea: the home must be built to last, built to serve, and built to feel entirely her own.
Flat Creek: Modern Home Architecture in Clermont, Georgia
Flat Creek is an "on the boards" project that will become a new single family home residence in rural Georgia. This transitional mountain farmhouse will be situated on a 45-acre agricultural site in Clermont, Georgia prioritizing functionality for an active lifestyle involving outdoor work, while serving as a comfortable, multigenerational residence.
Thinking About Buying a Stock Floor Plans?
One of the most common—and stressful—situations we see homeowners fall into goes like this: You finally close on your dream piece of land. To save time, you buy a pre-designed "stock" floor plan online that you love. But when you hand it to a builder, you realize it’s going to cost a fortune in grading and foundation work just to make the house fit the land. If you are planning to build, especially on a lot with a view or unique topography, here is why a site-specific design
Stepping Into the Blueprint: A Life-Sized Walkthrough of "The Britt" at Walk Your Plans - Atlanta
We like to think this experience takes abstract concepts and transforms them into tangible moments. Our clients could finally feel the spatial relationship between the kitchen island and the living room where they’d host family gatherings, and they could see exactly how the morning light would filter into their master suite. It was no longer just a project on a screen—it was the place where their next chapter would unfold.
Behind the Blueprint: Designing the "Two Cows" Dream Home in Clermont, GA
Great architecture works with the land, not against it. For "Two Cows," James angled and lowered the garage 45 degrees, stepping the foundation to match Clermont’s grade. This minimizes excavation and gives the home an organic profile.
From Sketch to Virtual Reality: Create a Digital Twin To Visualize Your Custom Dream Home Before Breaking Ground
For many of our clients, staring at a flat, 2D blueprint covered in lines and symbols, and trying to imagine what the finished space would actually feel like is a challenge. Since most clients aren't trained to read floor plans, this traditional method can create some anxiety and lack of connection to the function and flow of the space. With a digital twin, you aren't just looking at the layout of rooms. You can see exactly how the morning light will spill across your great r
Seeing is Believing. How 3D "Digital Twin" Technology is Revolutionizing Custom Home Design
Visualizing Your Dream Home Design Designing and building your dream home should be one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of your life. It’s the culmination of years of hard work, planning, and dreaming. But for many homeowners, that excitement quickly turns into anxiety the moment a set of flat, black-and-white floor plans is rolled out on the table. Let’s face it: unless you are in the construction industry, visualizing custom home blueprints can feel like try
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