Design Matters

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Our blog, Design Matters, is a place for our team to share our knowledge, community events, projects, resources, and opinions. It is a place for you to keep up with us and for us to hear from you. Thanks for reading!

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Visualization of the dream

By Asha Beck | January 7, 2023 | architecture

As architects and designers, we have the privilege of being trusted with our client's dreams. A client might dream ...

Historic Farmhouse Renovation in Luray

By cbhendricks | January 5, 2023 | architecture, project update

Almost at the end of a dead end road overlooking the South Fork River a beautiful historic farmhouse was ...

Gaines Group Architects Elevates New Partners

By cbhendricks | January 3, 2023 | Charles Hendricks, Office Culture, team

Gaines Group Architects has elevated four new partners to the leadership of the firm: James Halstead, Deborah ...

Celebrating 2022 Architecture Fun!

By cbhendricks | January 1, 2023 | architecture, citizen architect, Fun, Office Culture

We loved celebrating together in 2022 all the architecture fun things, special days, and events! We are a small ...

Construction progress highlights this year

By cbhendricks | December 29, 2022 | architecture, project update

We have had some pretty awesome projects come up out of the ground this year. While it is super fun to design a ...

Detached garage / barn / workshop Addition

By cbhendricks | December 27, 2022 | architecture, project update

We get to work with some amazing people on some really cool projects. This project in particular has some of my ...

#HilltopHouse, this one is amazing

By cbhendricks | December 24, 2022 | architecture, project update

The #HilltopHouse is coming right along and is truly an amazing space. I was just looking back through my notes ...

Happy Festivus!

By Annie | December 23, 2022 | architecture, Fun, Office Culture

Happy Festivus! While most of us around here are swept away in the excitement of this holiday season, we ...

Cabin Addition finishing strong

By cbhendricks | December 22, 2022 | architecture, project update

The Cabin Addition in Luray is finishing strong and looking really good. Integrity Custom Builders took on this ...

Modern Mountain Home finishing construction

By cbhendricks | December 21, 2022 | architecture, project update

When we kicked off the design for the modern home on Afton Mountain our clients provided aesthetic goals and a ...

Mind Behind the Design: Adrienne Stronge

By Annie | December 19, 2022 | family, team

Adrienne with her husband Andrew and son Alister If there is one thing we know to be certain, it’s that ...

Architecture Design verses Drafting

By Annie | December 14, 2022 | architecture, Office Culture

Discussing the differences in architecture design verses drafting allow us to share the value an architect ...