Santa Barbara Riviera.
In-town estates with ocean view. Tight lots, beautiful light, historic bones.
Our practice in Central Coast, applied to Santa Barbara Riviera.
Our flagship studio sits on Coast Village Road. Our receiver operates in Summerland. Our trades — plasterers, stone masons, millworkers, hardware smiths — are within a thirty-minute radius. The result is a delivery rhythm that cannot be replicated by a firm arriving from elsewhere: weekly site visits, same-day material samples, and a decade-deep bench of local craftspeople who know our standards and our clients' expectations.
Central Coast clients share a specific sensibility. They do not want their homes to look like Los Angeles. They want warmth, patina, authenticity, craft, and a sense that the home has existed in this landscape for generations — even when newly built. Understanding this sensibility is the price of entry for designing here. Most firms from elsewhere underestimate it.
For the full Central Coast positioning, visit the Central Coast market page.
- Market
- Central Coast
- Investment range
- $5M – $60M+
- Region
- Santa Barbara & Ventura Counties
- Hand-troweled lime plaster walls
- Saltillo, Malibu, and Santa Barbara tile
- Reclaimed oak beams and Douglas fir
- Wrought iron lanterns, Moroccan fixtures, and custom hardware
- Courtyard fountains and citrus allées
- Summerland antiques and collected vintage
- Marc Appleton
- Tom Meaney
- Jeff Shelton
- Neumann Mendro Andrulaitis
- Ferguson & Shamamian
- Don Nulty
- Allen Construction
- Becker Studios
- Sonora West
- Giffin & Crane
- Young Construction
Projects in Central Coast and adjacent markets.
A Cerro home in Santa Barbara Riviera.
We design ground-up estates, whole-home renovations, and historic restorations across Santa Barbara Riviera and the wider Central Coast market. Every inquiry is read by the principal designer.