LGA STUDIOS BLOG
ADUs: The Ultimate Guide for Colorado Homeowners
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) are gaining popularity in Colorado Springs as versatile solutions for expanding living space, generating rental income, or accommodating family. Whether you’re looking to build a detached backyard cottage, convert your garage into a studio, or design a custom ADU that blends seamlessly with your home, this guide covers everything you need to know. From zoning laws and design ideas to budgeting tips and real-life success stories, LGA Studios shares insights to help you create a functional, stylish ADU that fits your lifestyle.
Behind the Design: A Refined Industrial Colorado Home
Something we love most about our jobs as designers is understanding how setting informs and interacts with built spaces, and this home – brought to life beautifully by Colarelli Custom Homes – embodies that idea artfully.
Designing Dreams: A Few Recent Examples of our Visualization Services in Action
Architecture is a visual language, and in order to fully express how our clients’ dreams start coming to life, we prioritize keeping ourselves up to date with the latest advances in drafting technology that can help us do just that. In addition to 3D rendered views that can better show scale and massing, we can also create 360-degree virtual flyaround tours for our clients.
Mountain Modern Homes: A Timeless Blend of Nature and Contemporary Design
As Colorado-based home designers, we’re fortunate enough to enjoy the constant beauty of the mountains that surround us. How could you not be inspired by their rugged majesty? The Mountain Modern architectural style captures the essence of these breathtaking landscapes, blending nature's serenity with contemporary design principles. With its striking roof shapes, thoughtful finishes, and harmonious integration with the surroundings, Mountain Modern homes offer a unique and captivating living experience. In this blog post, we’ll explore the key features, origins, popularity, and design considerations of the Mountain Modern style, providing valuable insights for potential clients seeking to design their dream home in this distinctive architectural aesthetic.
Designing a Home for Life: House Plans that Cater to Aging in Place
Good home design isn’t just about architectural style, proportions, and site orientation. It’s about thoughtful attention to you and to all those who will call this space home. Your home should meet your specific needs and allow you to live well, both now and in the future. The ability to stay in your home as you get older – to age in place – has a lot to do with how your floor plan functions.
Colorado Ranch Lifestyle - A Home Trend with Intention
The past couple years have led to a lot of adjustments and reevaluations about priorities in life and how we all choose to spend our time. With so many dramatic changes to everything, from how we travel and see friends and family to how and where we work over the course of the pandemic, most of us have been home a lot more than perhaps we had before. Our homes have had to become our offices, our theaters, our restaurants, and our hobby and play areas, and that’s led to a more thoughtful approach to home design.
Housewarming for a New Modern Farmhouse
There’s nothing we love more than seeing our clients moved in and enjoying their new home. Our team loved designing and working on this custom Modern Farmhouse that sits on twenty acres of land, and when our clients invited us out to their open house (and blackberry picking!), we were thrilled to see the final results!
Reclaimed Materials and Architectural Salvage in Colorado Springs
By some counts, half of all the waste in landfills comes from buildings. Most of that trash could have been recycled or reused. You may not have heard about your options to buy and sell salvaged building materials in Colorado Springs yet, so LGA Studios is here to enlighten you! Whether you are trying to be more eco-friendly, aiming for an authentically antique appearance in your new house or remodel, or trying to get rid of some building materials in your garage, you've got options now.
Innovative Building Materials to Use in a Custom Home to Improve Durability
Building a custom home is a significant investment. Whether you plan on aging with your custom home or selling it during a market upswing, the only way the investment will pay dividends is if you build it with materials that will stand the test of time.
Guest blogger Matt Lee writes more about several innovative building materials on the market that can help your custom home maintain its integrity in the face of harsh weather and the debilitating effects of time.
5 Modern Custom Home Trends
Guest blogger Matt Lee from Innovative Building Materials is back with a post about modern custom home trends. Learn more about how homeowners are making their homes more luxurious, personalized, and sustainable than ever, incorporating accents such as bold trim, black fixtures, and plenty of glass.
LGA Studios Interview with Springs Magazine
LGA Studios was proud to be featured in the Spring issue of SPRINGS Magazine in an article by Cameron Moix all about current home style trends and how to make your space more inspired. We were also excited that the magazine chose to photograph a fabulous custom home LGA Studios designed in the Broadmoor Bluffs area to feature in the pages of the article, a stunning contemporary home that was a joy to design.