Honoring the landscape at Aspen Valley Home
“The land is the simplest form of architecture,” wrote Frank Lloyd Wright in An Organic Architecture. The connection between a...
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The predictability you need
To fulfill your goal of a beautiful custom home designed for the life you want, you need the right partner:...
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Design We Like: Scents of Home
Design We Like is a blog series highlighting everyday items that complement the aesthetic sensibility of Turkel Design. By sharing...
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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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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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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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Design We Like: Holiday Gift Ideas for the Discerning
Design We Like is a blog series highlighting everyday items that complement the aesthetic sensibility of Turkel Design. By sharing...
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Video: Axiom 2450
Take a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2450 model.
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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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Introducing Desert House
Introducing Desert House, a systems-built jewel from Turkel Design, located in Palm Springs, California.
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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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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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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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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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Celebrating a Modernism Week milestone
Modernism Week, the annual celebration of midcentury Modern design, architecture, and culture in Palm Springs, California, marks its twentieth anniversary...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Homeowner’s Perspective: Town Cove Retreat
Our client, a builder in New York City, talks about working with Turkel Design on Town Cove Retreat in Martha’s...
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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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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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Video: Layers of Space
One of the design principles we rely on at Turkel Design is that spatial layering adds depth. It allows for...
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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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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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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: Muskoka Cottage
Watch a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Muskoka Cottage in Lake Muskoka, Ontario, Canada.
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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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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: Axiom 2110 Timelapse
Watch a timelapse assembly of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2110 model.
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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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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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Wine Country Retreat
Watch a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Wine Country Retreat in Sonoma, California.
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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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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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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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Design We Like: Al Fresco Elegance
Design We Like is a blog series highlighting everyday items that complement the aesthetic sensibility of Turkel Design. By sharing...
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Balancing privacy with indoor/outdoor living
With interior rooms that extend to outdoor living spaces, and ample opportunities to capture landscape views, promote air flow, and...
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Video: Axiom 2350
Take a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2350 model.
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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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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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Four 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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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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Five facts about prefab that may surprise you
For more than a century, prefabrication has brought precision and efficiency to residential architecture. To “prefabricate” a home is to...
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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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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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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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How to choose a design starting point
One of the benefits of prefab home architecture is that you can take advantage of a well-honed system. Turkel Design...
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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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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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Video: Axiom 2790
Take a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2790 model.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Video: Axiom 2650
Take a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2650 model.
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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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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 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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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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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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Four Directions for Custom Home Design in 2025
If you’re planning to begin the process of designing and building a new home in 2025, it’s important to understand...
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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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Turkel Design wins International Residential Architecture Award
Turkel Design is winning international recognition for Aspen Valley Home. The Architecture Community honored the project, located in Aspen, Colorado,...
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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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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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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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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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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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For modern homes, heat pump systems are an alternative to fossil fuel fatigue
For modern homeowners, heat pump systems are more environmentally friendly and reliable solutions to home heating and cooling.
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Video: Axiom 2390
Take a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2390 model.
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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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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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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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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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Flat roofs 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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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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Desert House Timelapse
Watch a timelapse video of the assembly of Turkel Design’s Desert House in Palm Springs, California.
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Video: Counter-definition
Creating spaces that are defined by each other allows a person to experience more than one space at a time....
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Modern gear barn offers beauty, versatility, and opportunity
Outbuilding brings flexibility to a Jackson Hole compound Thunder Road Reaches is a multigenerational retreat modeled after the sprawling family...
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Video: Axiom 2750
Take a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Axiom 2750 model.
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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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Getting to the point
Inside Turkel Design’s industry-leading strategy for precision in home architecture There is an undeniable thrill to the prospect of creating...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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