For projects of every kind  – from apartments, townhomes, and houses to hotels and residential developments –  the process begins shortly after a new client engages the Workshop/APD team.

In Nantucket, Workshop/APD was tapped by Blue Flag Partners to design Hawthorne Park, a new residential development comprising modern cedar-shingled homes artfully arranged around gorgeously-landscaped communal greenspaces. In this case, planning was crucial in arranging the homes to create privacy and community, optimizing views and public space usage, and ensuring that each home design was in harmony with its neighbors.

For Hawthorne Park (and the majority of our projects) a landscape study was step one, in order to develop a holistic design that captured views and optimal light conditions and optimized outdoor living potential.

A preliminary presentation illustrates the scale and relationship of project elements, including rendered elevations and preliminary layouts, 3D views and palette selections.

• Our team creates detailed renderings depicting major elements of the exterior and interior spaces, including floorplans, fixtures, finishes and millwork. Changes can be made as needed to reflect client requests, allowing them to constantly visualize what their home will look like completed.

• The smallest design details –  like reveals and joinery elements – can also be rendered to ensure that there are no surprises during the actual build-out and that all work is finished to our exacting standards.

Material and finish sample options provide a more visual and tactile experience, and beautifully photographed material palettes help provide clarity.

• Throughout the process, our in-house architectural and interior design teams work hand-in-hand , seamlessly marrying finish choices and furniture, fabric and accessory selections, lighting placement, custom furnishings and millwork, floorcoverings and more for a cohesive, holistic design.