Every style, studied twice.
Most style guides are written by people who have never built one. This series studies each home design style as a composition — and as a construction project, through The Builder’s Eye.
Modern & Contemporary
Clean lines are the easy part. What separates a modern home that endures is everything you cannot see in the photograph.
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Art Deco
Geometry, curves, and glamour — the style almost nobody builds new, which is exactly the opportunity.
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Modern Barnhouse
The gambrel silhouette, glazed gable ends, and loft living — a country house that grew from the land.
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Coastal
Light walls, deep porches, metal roofs — and why the style works three hundred miles from the nearest wave.
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Transitional
Classic massing and real masonry on the street side, walls of steel-framed glass behind them.
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Organic Modern
Honest materials — unpainted wood, dry-stack stone, walls of glass — designed from the back yard forward.
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The metro’s most requested style, studied properly — the study is in the works.
A home that feels inevitable.
Daniel Allen Designs serves homeowners and builders across metro Atlanta —
from concept through permit-ready construction documents.