Architecture & Design
Custom homes shaped by land, light, and the way you live.
A Longfellow home is custom designed around a specific client, a specific site, and a specific way of living. The proportions of the rooms. The way natural light moves through the house. The relationship between kitchen, guest rooms, outdoor spaces, garages, and mudrooms. Each decision is made with your aesthetic and your family in mind — now and for generations to come.
A Design-Build Approach
Our architects, engineers, and construction managers all work from the same office. A designer refining a kitchen can speak directly with the engineer sizing the floor system. A construction manager can weigh in before a detail becomes expensive to solve in the field. Drawings stay tighter. Decisions move faster. The house remains coherent from first sketch to final walk-through.
“Longfellow maximized our views and natural light beyond imagination.”
Materials & Selections
Material palettes are drawn from an extensive network of suppliers across stone, tile, hardware, cabinetry, fixtures, lighting, and finishes. Clients visit our showrooms before selections are specified for the home. They touch the stone, compare finishes, and understand how each decision will read in the room. We favor those with beauty, depth, and staying power: rift-cut white oak, hand-finished metal, raised-panel cabinetry, honed stone, coffered ceilings, and tile chosen for the architecture of the space.
Kitchen & Bath Design
Our award-winning kitchen and bath designers consider every detail: how a room is entered, where the body turns, what should be within reach, where light lands, and how storage should disappear into the architecture. From there, we develop the cabinetry, hardware, surfaces, lighting, fixtures, and the details that give the room its character.
Custom Built-Ins & Millwork
Built-ins are fitted to the walls they inhabit. Cabinetry is detailed at furniture grade. Millwork is drawn and milled for the house. The result is a home where the details feel intentional because they are.
Interiors
Clients who spent months designing and building with us kept asking whether the same team could carry through to the furniture, rather than starting over with a new designer. We created our in-house design studio in response. It develops the furnishing and finishing layer alongside the architecture: floor-plan layouts to scale, fabric and finish selections, lighting, rugs, and window treatments, all reconciled against decisions already made.
Your interior designer can run the project from first conversation to final install. Pieces are specified before they are purchased and sourced from makers who build to last, from heritage American houses like Bassett, Hooker, Universal, and Rowe to designer-driven brands such as Arteriors, Four Hands, and Noir, alongside specialty artisans including Hubbardton Forge for hand-forged lighting and Hunter Douglas for window treatments. The studio works from Longfellow’s corporate office in Boston’s South End and its showroom in Lincoln, New Hampshire.
Smart Home & Lifestyle Tech
The technology layer is designed alongside the architecture from the first set of plans, so wiring, speaker placement, and control points are resolved before the walls close. Our architects work directly with in-house technology engineers who design and install the home’s entertainment, comfort, and security systems.
• Whole-home sound systems
• In-wall, in-ceiling, and outdoor speakers
• Home theater rooms
• Home automation (Lutron)
• Security systems
• Outdoor lighting
• Motorized window treatments and shades (Hunter Douglas)
• Three-season room motorized louvers
Fireplaces
A fireplace organizes the room around it, so its placement, surround, and scale are drawn on the plans rather than worked in afterward. The same team specifies and installs the gas and electric units, detailed to sit as a built part of the home, indoors and out.
• Gas fireplaces
• Electric fireplaces
• Indoor and outdoor fire features