I help people build homes they actually want to live in.
Edgar — architect. Twenty years turning a site, a brief, and a budget into a place that feels inevitable.
A house is the most personal thing most people ever build.
I started out drawing other architects' buildings and watching good ideas get lost between the sketch and the site. So I went small on purpose — one project, one family, start to finish.
The work I care about isn't the photograph. It's the morning light in a kitchen you didn't know you needed, the stair that's just wide enough, the budget that held because we made the hard calls early, together.
— edgar, architect since 2005
You get the person who drew it — start to finish.
No hand-offs, no surprises at the reveal. One architect, accountable for every line, from the first sketch to the last site visit.
That's how the budget holds and the building feels inevitable: the decisions are made early, together, by the person who has to make them work.
— and that never changes
How I work — and what you get.
You're in the room for every decision.
No hand-offs to a junior, no surprises at the reveal. The person who drew it is the person you talk to.
A drawing set the trades trust.
Documents clear enough that builders price them honestly and build them without guessing — which protects your budget.
Designed for the next forty years, not the next photo.
Materials that age well, rooms that flex as life changes, and details that still make sense long after the styling is gone.
A narrow, sloping lot the owners were told was unbuildable — so we let the house step down the hill instead of fighting it.
A dark 1960s kitchen at the back of the house — opened to a courtyard that now does the cooking, eating, and growing-up.
Aging parents moving closer, but not in — a small annexe that gives everyone their own front door.
We came in with a folder of photos and a number we were scared of. Edgar gave us a home that feels like it was always here — and we stayed inside the budget.
He spent more time listening than drawing for the first month. Every awkward thing about our old house, he’d quietly solved by the time we saw the plans.
Tell me about your project.
A first conversation is just that — no pitch, no obligation. Tell me where you are and what you're imagining, and I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right architect for it.
or emailhello@edgar.studio