Kearney Mark Andrew Architect

We bought our home knowing full well that adding on an office and in-​law suite was going to be difficult. Here’s why: We really wanted it to look like it was designed with the rest of the house, not just tacked-​on later with no thought or care.
Enter Mark Kearney. He had worked on a relative’s addition and she raved about his work, so we had him come over for a chat. He walked around the house, taking pictures from every vantage point. We had warned him that our home was in a pine forest and we wanted NO trees to come down, so he shoe-​horned his design between the trees. (The builder kept his chainsaw in the truck, hoping we would change our mind. We didn’t.) Oh, and ours is a steep lot. Oh, and we needed matching skylights. And on, and on… We were, probably, clients from hell. Or at least our parameters were.
Now, three years later, people drive up our driveway and ask if we just built the house. NOT if we’d just added on. It is perfect. I don’t use that word casually; from the addition, you don’t see the house, and from the house, you don’t see the addition. That was completely Mark’s idea and execution. There is not another home like it on earth and we are supremely pleased with his thorough, masterful design. There is no way I can overstate my admiration and recommendation of his services.
«A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.»
— Frank Lloyd Wrong