Predictability when you need it

To fulfill your goal of a beautiful custom home designed for the life you want, you need the right partner:...

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Turkel Design welcomes Climate Beacon

Turkel Design team members were proud to welcome a group from Climate Beacon, New England’s largest conference on climate change,...

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How much will my custom home cost?

If you’re thinking about designing and building a high-quality custom home, you’re likely curious about the total project cost. Like...

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The Art of Precision

Point cloud technology brings accuracy and beauty to home construction When it comes time to build your custom home, you...

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Engineered wood reduces waste

In last month’s post on Passive Solar Design, we discussed how the materials used to build your home can have...

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Have a flat roof in snow country

“I love the look of your houses, but our site is out in snow country. Can we build a house...

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Custom casework surprises with hidden gems

This is the first in a series of posts that will illustrate how custom cabinetry makes for beautiful homes that...

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Designing a home for daylong living

Work-from-home homes must inspire day and night There are qualities that every well-designed home should share: beauty, warmth, tranquility, comfort,...

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Design We Like: Productivity and Beauty

Design We Like is a blog series highlighting everyday items that complement the aesthetic sensibility of Turkel Design. By sharing...

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Lake Muskoka Boathouse wins top honor at Wood Design & Building Awards

The Canadian Wood Council has awarded Turkel Design’s Lake Muskoka Boathouse its highest-level Honor prize at the 2022-2023 Wood Design...

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Video: Axiom 2650

Take a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2650 model.

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The Architectural Freedom of Panelized Prefab Homes

Within a systematized process comes amazing creativity. Panelized prefabrication with Turkel Design will empower architectural freedom in your next home design.

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A Deep Dive Into the Precision of a High-Quality Prefab Home

Our signature approach to prefabrication ensures attention to detail. Learn how this precision comes into play throughout the design and building process.

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Design We Like: Warming the Soul

Design We Like is a blog series highlighting everyday items that complement the aesthetic sensibility of Turkel Design. By sharing...

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Design We Like: Stylish and Celebratory

Design We Like is a blog series highlighting everyday items that complement the aesthetic sensibility of Turkel Design. By sharing...

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Architectural Record names Mulmur Hills Farm “House of the Month”

Turkel Design is proud to announce that Mulmur Hills Farm is named “House of the Month” in the December 2022...

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Custom cabinetry creates a sanctuary

This is the second in a series of posts that illustrate how custom cabinetry makes beautiful homes that promote better...

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Wine Country Retreat

Watch a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Wine Country Retreat in Sonoma, California.

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4 reasons to build your second home in a rural area

When the opportunity to build a second home arises, site selection is critical. Learn why a rural property offers the chance for a timeless new home.

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Sustainable features used in designing prefab residences

Designing for sustainability requires strategic decisions every step of the way. Explore the sustainable features in designer prefab residences with this guide.

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How to embrace minimalism when building your home

Minimalism is more than just a trend; it’s a lifestyle choice that prioritizes simplicity and functionality. When it comes to...

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This Century Modern

Classic design principles are influencing today’s best new homes Modern architecture aficionados may dream of living in an authentic midcentury...

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Design We Like: Spring Cleaning Essentials

Design We Like is a blog series highlighting everyday items that complement the aesthetic sensibility of Turkel Design. By sharing these...

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Visualizing your custom home

Finish materials play an enormous role in shaping the design of your custom home. When working with Turkel Design, homeowners...

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A Palm Springs Net-Zero Prefab Flaunts an Elegant, Airy Kitchen

Voluminous, versatile, and incredibly chic—the kitchen at Desert House has been thoughtfully designed to serve as a multidimensional stage for...

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The Marriage of Technology and Luxury in Prefab Home Design

The right materials and processes make for beautiful, high-quality homes. Explore the marriage of technology and luxury in prefab home design with this guide.

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Video: Axiom 2610

Watch a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Harvard Yard House in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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The difference between prefab panels and prefab modules

People often ask us why we build our houses using prefabricated panels rather than large modules. Let’s first be clear...

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Lake Muskoka Boathouse honored by Residential Design Awards

In its November/December issue, Architect Magazine announced the winners of the 2023 Residential Design Awards, recognizing Turkel Design’s Lake Muskoka...

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Why we use prefab panels

If you’re thinking about a new home—or just dreaming about one—how to construct that home probably isn’t at the top...

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Build on a steep slope

A house on a hillside can give you experiences that you can’t get anywhere else. You can have the cozy...

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Your home evolves as you do

When does a house become a home? You might say: It’s when memories of events and occasions began to accumulate....

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Video: Axiom 2340

Watch a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2340, inspiration for Highwood Home in Lake Forest, Illinois.

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Things to look for when hiring high-end home architects

Hiring a high-end architectural firm to design a custom home is a major decision. Equip yourself to make the best possible decision with these considerations.

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The Wonders of Wood

Materiality in Turkel Design homes When designing a custom home, it’s hard to overstate the importance of material selection. At...

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Video: Axiom 2110 Timelapse

Watch a timelapse assembly of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2110 model.

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Wood and Glass: The Warmth of Home

This is the third in a series of posts exploring materiality in the architecture of Turkel Design homes—specifically, our use...

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Design We Like: Summer Sipping and Snacking

Design We Like is a blog series highlighting everyday items that complement the aesthetic sensibility of Turkel Design. By sharing these...

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How to choose a building site

You’ve made the decision to build a home – congratulations, that’s a big step. But now what? Well, first you...

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Video: Muskoka Cottage

Watch a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Muskoka Cottage in Lake Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.

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Design We Like: Back to School, with Style

Design We Like is a blog series highlighting everyday items that complement the aesthetic sensibility of Turkel Design. By sharing...

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Design We Like: A Garden of Design Delights

Design We Like is a blog series highlighting everyday items that complement the aesthetic sensibility of Turkel Design. By sharing...

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Three ways to get creative with cabinetry

Every homeowner knows that cabinets are more than just a place to store your belongings. They play a significant role...

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Flexible space adapts to life’s unanticipated moments

What makes a house a home? Over time, memories accumulate, and they color your experience of the places in your...

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Video: Axiom 2790

Take a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2790 model.

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Video: Axiom 2450

Take a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2450 model.

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Homeowner’s Perspective: The Turkel Design Process and Mulmur Hills Farm

A Toronto entrepreneur shares how Turkel Design’s unique process resulted in an Ontario vacation home that surpassed his family’s expectations:...

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A Luminous Palm Springs Kitchen Fosters Easy Indoor/Outdoor Living

A manifestation of exquisite, thoughtful design, the kitchen in the prefabricated Desert House embodies rich indoor/outdoor connections, enabling a superb...

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How we design a custom home for you

Have you ever wondered where architects get their ideas? Many of our ideas come in response to factors you...

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Turkel Design is always custom design

If you’ve come to our website, it must be because you are dreaming about a custom home, one that is...

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Introducing Desert House

Introducing Desert House, a systems-built jewel from Turkel Design, located in Palm Springs, California.

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Bring the nature inside

There’s a difference between watching Nature, as if on a video screen, and feeling that you’re within Nature. We design...

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Turkel Design hosts architecture advertising awards jury

Architectural Record magazine visited the Turkel Design studio in Somerville, Massachusetts, in April to convene the jury for its 2024 Advertising...

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Homeowner’s Perspective: Designing Mulmur Hills Farm

A homeowner describes how Turkel Design incorporated his family’s lifestyle into a vacation home built on rural land. For closed...

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Wood and Stone: A Natural Pairing

Materiality in Turkel Design Homes In a previous post, we described how the organic quality of wood makes it uniquely...

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Dwell x Marvin

Dwell magazine takes a look inside Turkel Design’s Town Cove Retreat in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.

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Working together to keep girls in school and building materials out of landfills

If you have ever visited a construction site, then you are likely familiar with Tyvek—the synthetic material that wraps buildings...

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Tools to ensure municipal and HOA approval

You might think that once your architect has drawn up the plans for your new home, the next step is...

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Step Inside Palm Springs’ Latest Indoor/Outdoor Prefab Home

Inspired by midcentury Modern architecture and an easy, breezy, open-air lifestyle, Desert House embodies the beauty of prefab living to...

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Design for a low-maintenance home

When you are escaping to your vacation home or pulling into your driveway at the end of a busy day,...

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Reasons to build a custom home on your waterfront property

Are you looking for ways to make the most of your plot of land? Here are four compelling reasons to build a custom home on your waterfront property.

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Video: Axiom 2390

Take a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2390 model.

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What Turkel Design clients are saying

Josh D. – Mill Valley, CA “As an experienced developer, I thought I knew a lot about design and construction....

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Video: Axiom 2750

Take a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2750 model.

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Sustainability is built in to every Turkel design

At Turkel Design, we believe sustainability isn’t something added onto a design: it’s something that’s integral to the way we...

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Now is the time to build your family retreat

When Doug and Julie Weisman decided to build a home in which to enjoy their retirement on more than thirty...

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At Home with Innovation: Energy and Material Efficient Strategies

Desert House in Palm Springs, California, is our Living Lab because we’ve used it to try out new materials, explore...

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The benefits of optimizing natural light in your new home

Natural light can completely transform the look and feel of your space. Explore these benefits of optimizing natural light in your new home.

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Experience the spaces within the spaces

What makes a space an experience? We think it’s the emotions evoked. A home is a place where many activities...

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Video: Axiom 3250

Watch a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 3250, inspiration for Hudson Valley Retreat in Hillsdale, New York.

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Designing spaces to human scale

A well-designed home defines a purpose for every square foot—sometimes multiple purposes. Skilled architects use space thoughtfully and efficiently to...

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Guidance for homeowners: Questions to answer before buying land

At Turkel Design, we design your home for how you want to live, wherever that may be. Of course, deciding...

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Desert House Video Walkthrough

Watch a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Desert House in Palm Springs, California.

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Questions to consider about the spaces in your custom home

Making the decision to design and build a custom home comes with a great deal of freedom—and a lot of...

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Universal design is good design

As designers of custom homes, we are dedicated to creating solutions that improve our clients’ lives, whatever their needs may...

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Our homes embrace understated elegance

Designing a custom home is a way of contributing to the built environment—a contribution that, when done well, will stand...

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Desert House Timelapse

Watch a timelapse video of the assembly of Turkel Design’s Desert House in Palm Springs, California.

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Bringing predictability to the permitting process

The beauty of custom architecture is that, when executed with care, it results in a home that you love. The...

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We take advantage of the sun

When we ask our clients about what’s important to them—not just in home design, but in life—environmental sustainability ranks high....

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Things to consider when planning to build a vacation home

Building a vacation home is an exciting and rigorous process. Ensure you have everything you need by considering these factors before building a vacation home.

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