Waynesville Mountain Modern Craftsman

Tucked into the mountainside at nearly 4300 feet in elevation, this reserved Craftsman style home defines rustic, modern beauty that provides a balanced interplay between the rich but spare interior materials and dark windows that frame the resplendent mountain view. ...

The Modern Style Craftsman Home

Asheville Modern Craftsman

Asheville in Falcon Ridge, the exterior of this beautiful home reinterprets Craftsman style by blending traditional mountain materials with California Arts & Crafts detailing....

Biltmore Forest The Ramble designed by luxury mountain home architects, ACM Design

Ramble Romantic

An exercise in restraint, this home offers a carefully studied rendition of European Romantic style, honed with clean lines and masculine appointments. The balanced blend of warmth and reserve is expressed throughout the design from its spare but substantial exterior stucco and stone to the quiet interior palette with bursts of color....

ACM Design, Mountain Home Architects design this new construction Family Lodge in Black Mountain

Black Mountain Family Lodge

Designed as a family mountain retreat, this home offers many opportunities to experience the great outdoors from the covered porch with a commanding stone fireplace to a summer kitchen with outdoor dining under a heavy timber trellis. The chef’s kitchen opens to a large great room with vaulted ceiling and stone fireplace...

Architect designed home in Asheville

English Cottage

This new home exudes the character of an older home with distinct design elements such as unusual stone blended with brick, antique chimney pots, and elegant French doors. Yet the home has all the modern conveniences including an open plan main floor living....

Bridge in backyard of mountain craftsman home

Green Built, Sustainable Craftsman

From the moment you arrive at the front door, this home offers a retreat welcoming you to come inside, kick off your shoes, and relax. Whether you are admiring the beauty of the mountains from the covered porch or by the fire in the great room, you’ll appreciate that no detail was overlooked in integrating the design of the home...

Asheville Mountain Estate

180° long range mountain views looking westward from Asheville toward the Smoky Mountains are the reason this custom, architect-designed home was built on Reynolds Mountain....

Are you Planning to
Design and Build a Mountain Home?

If you’ve ever driven the Blue Ridge Parkway and dreamt of living in the Smoky Mountains or the Southern Appalachians, we’ve compiled a series of complimentary guides rich with information about designing a mountain home. Informed by our decades of experience as mountain home architects, we share expert advice about topics like building on steep slopes, terrain-specific building costs, and materials suited for withstanding the mountain weather. Our passion for creating personalized and heartfelt homes is apparent in all of our work and it is our pleasure to share our expertise with you in these free and informative guides.