Residential Architecture & Interiors that make Tropical Luxury a Breeze
Your idyllic retreat in paradise. A modern, custom-designed home where you can relax in tranquility and enjoy life.
Homes Designed in Perfect Harmony
Style, function, sustainability, and resiliency come together in our approach to tropical modern home design. Our architects and designers deliver exceptional residences created for the beauty and challenges of Florida’s unique, subtropical climate and stringent permitting and planning requirements.
We’re with you every step of the way in designing your perfect home. Just like you, we want to get every detail right. Through our disciplined, thoughtful design and planning process, we address problems before they become yours.
From our initial talks about your vision of home and creating initial design concepts and hyper-realistic 3D designs, to securing specialty permits, specifying and overseeing construction, we focus on bringing your dream home to life, designing harmony around every corner.
Along with our architects, the Studio AJO Interiors' design team works with you to select interior finishes and source custom pieces and complete the final touches on your perfect tropical luxury home.
Custom Residential Architecture & Design and Interior Architecture
At AJO, we value the importance of listening, really listening, to understand your exact preferences, lifestyle, and needs. Knowing every detail helps us deliver a luxury home design that wonderfully reflects your vision and functions effortlessly to make every day easier and more joyful.
Coastal Connection
We’re passionate about designing with sustainability, resilience, and our Florida location in mind. Our tropical homes blend environmentally-conscious design principles and architectural features, use natural and local materials, incorporate solar energy, maximize shade and breeze, and more.
Along with that, our approach to interior architecture ensures a flawless connection between architectural and interior spaces. We meticulously design fixed elements—from kitchens to custom book cases and more—creating a harmonious, tailored home that optimizes aesthetics and functionality.
Communication
With our robust project management, 3D visualization tools, and communication systems, you will be up to date throughout design and construction. Even if you aren't here in Florida at the time, you’ll see your dream coastal home come to life without the need for frequent travel.
Collaboration
To keep things easy and simple for you, we can act as a point of contact for you and all involved in creating and completing your project.
We collaborate with engineers, contractors, and a variety of trades from start to finish. And, we will be your eyes and ears on-site, overseeing your project from permitting through construction to ensure you have a beautifully-integrated project that is true to the design plan.
What it really takes to remodel and reimagine a whole home
Home improvement shows lie. Those scary surprises that almost derail the project are planned for dramatic effect, and often easily avoidable.
Studio AJO Interior Design & Furnishings for a Seamless Finish
Going beyond our core architecture and interior design services, our sister company, Studio AJO Interiors makes it seamless to complete your new home design process by helping you select and order quality furnishings, a unique vintage piece, window treatments, wall finishes, trims, specialty lighting fixtures, artwork, and accessories that will help make your house a home.
It’s one more way we give you and your new home complete and coherent start-to-finish service, inside and out.
For more of that uniquely yours design sensibility, we design and build custom furnishings such as tables, desks, chairs, cabinetry, and sofas. Our custom-designed furniture adds a sense of distinction and can even be a chapter in the story of your home of life.
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From initial concept through the last finished detail, you can count on exceptional service and Team Architecture Joyce Owens to be there for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Why do I need an architect?
By hiring an architect, you get a project designed for you and your specific desires and needs. An architect is skilled in making the best use of the property, light, space, and materials to create a space that’s fits you and the environment.
Without an architect, you risk making costly and time-consuming mistakes, delaying your project with construction revisions, and living with results that don't work for you.
We can also provide construction oversight or do regular site visits and report on progress. Staying engaged throughout the process, we are able to answer questions and guide the build to ensure the result matches the design plan. Having our team be your watchful eyes on the project is especially helpful if you are not able to be on-site yourself.
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What's the difference between interior architecture and interior design?
Your architect should be with you almost from the word go, helping you assess the feasibility of your idea, understand the opportunities and limitations of your building site, assess permitting and planning requirements, and explore options you may not have considered.
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At what point in my project should I involve an architect?
As soon as you decide you want to design your dream home or build your new work space! When you start with an architects, they can help you assess the feasibility of your idea, understand the opportunities and limitations of your building site, and explore options you may not have thought about.
