Boardroom Projects

I design houses in Phoenix and stay with them, from the first conversation through the plans, the permits, and every day on the job site. Old houses saved instead of scraped. New ones that belong on their street. All of it shaped around how you actually live.

Brick corner with a black steel window, State Ave

Navy front door with planters, State Ave

Sage door on a white brick wall, Headquarters

Blue and cream checkerboard tile, Paradise Valley

Black steel windows on a white pool house, Arcadia

Window and lantern in a white hallway, State Ave

Adirondack chair on a cabin porch, Flagstaff

Picnic table under a vine-covered pergola, State Ave

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State Ave

North Central Phoenix. New build in brick, built to look like it was always there.

Dark bar with brick wall and brass shelves

Flagstaff

Forest Highlands. A cabin in the pines. Stone base, board-and-batten, a porch that does most of the living.

Charcoal cabin with a deep front porch among ponderosa pines

Porch with wicker chairs looking into the trees

Bedroom with wood beams and striped blankets

Kitchen with sage cabinets and wood ceiling

Paradise Valley

Whole-house remodel. White stucco, low roofline, oak and sage inside.

White stucco house with a brick patio under a tree

Front courtyard with brick path and arched entry

Dining room with white beamed ceiling and oak table

Headquarters

Historic remodel. The Boardroom itself, where every house starts on a wall of pins.

Pin board covered in plans, fabric, and photographs

Copper pots on a brass rail over white subway tile

White brick house with red tile roof and lawn

Home Sweet Home

Our own house and pool house. The one we test everything on first.

White board-and-batten ranch with navy shutters and a brick path

Picnic table under a vine-covered pergola

Pool house bunk room with blue-gray built-ins

Arcadia

Two pool houses and a porch. Small buildings, done properly.

White pool house with black steel doors beside a pool

Pool house bath with slate floor and black hardware

Pool house with a white trellis and brick patio

These are houses people actually live in. The dogs, the flowers on the counter, the toys on the floor. That's the whole point.

A dog lying on a herringbone brick floor

Lemons in a striped bowl on a white counter

Stuffed animals scattered across a wood floor

Lindsey leaning on a black Dutch door, holding a lemon

A Phoenix pennant and bedding in a cabin bedroom

Lindsey

I've never wanted just
anyone to hire me.

I grew up here, five generations deep. On Saturdays I'd pull the open-house listings out of the paper, beg my mom to drive me around, and spend the rest of the weekend redrawing every floor plan I'd walked through. I still do that, more or less. Now there's a permit involved.

What I actually do is hard to fit on a business card. I sit with you and figure out how you live. Where the keys land. How the groceries get in from the car. Where you work on a Tuesday night, and what you want your life to look like ten years from now. Then we pin all of it to the board, find true north, and I hold us to it. Through the drawings, through the bids, through every pivot in the field. Almost no house ends up where it started. I'm the part that doesn't change.

I love old houses. I love giving a building a second life. I'll do new, but it has to belong on its street, because your house is a gift to the people who walk past it. Real materials. Rooms built for humans, not giants. I'm not the contractor, I'm just on site more than most of them.

The best thing a client ever said to me was that their house felt like a big hug. That's the job.

Have a house in mind? The older and stranger, the better.

lindsey@boardroomprojects.com

Ten percent of every Boardroom project goes to a fund supporting local affordable housing organizations, so that more people in this city have a place to call home.