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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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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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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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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Introducing Desert House
Introducing Desert House, a systems-built jewel from Turkel Design, located in Palm Springs, California.
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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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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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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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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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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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How much will my custom home cost?
Like most things in life, that depends. Custom homes also have a custom price. To ensure we are the right...
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Video: 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: 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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Wine Country Retreat
Watch a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Wine Country Retreat in Sonoma, California.
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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 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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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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At Home with Energy and Material Efficiency
Our Desert House in Palm Springs, California, is our Living Lab because we’ve used it to try out new materials,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Turkel Design prefab process: step by step
Known as one of the “Grandfathers of Prefab,” Carl Koch described building a home as the most expensive, most complicated,...
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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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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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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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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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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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Dwell x Marvin
Dwell magazine takes a look inside Turkel Design’s Town Cove Retreat in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: Axiom 2610
Watch a video walkthrough of Turkel Design’s Harvard Yard House in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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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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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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Desert House Beams
We worked with BC Timber Frame to source our Douglas fir glulam beams—using Select Structural, the highest grade of local...
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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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