The Design Guy
Welcome
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... to TheDesignGuy.com, my personal cyber domicile where you can review a sampling of buildings and projects which I have completed over the past forty-some-odd-years of practice.
My goal, as a designer, remains to make my contributions so they will, in some way, enable my clients to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement through the finished product. Each project, regardless of scale, is engaged with a fresh new and vibrant attitude because that is exactly what every new project deserves.
This is my work, I hope you will enjoy reviewing it for consideration.
Sincerely,
Donald Whittaker, AKA: The Design Guy
Completed projects
Architecture is a response to fundamental human needs. It’s a way of organizing space while meeting practical demands. Architectural design can and should introduce new dynamic perspectives blended with fundamental ideals. Architects strive to synthesize these two goals, to create buildings that perform as well as they may visually delight. Buildings that uplift the spirit are memorable - and classical architecture should always be memorable.
Architecture is 10 percent what codes and budgets dictate and 90 percent how an architect reacts to it. And so, it is with you... we oversee our attitudes. So, if renovating your home is what you have concluded to do than enter that process with a good attitude and an excellent design team and wonders will be achieved that exceed your imagination.
And so, we begin...
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The Windward Cottage
Dutch Colonial - Shingle Style
Clyde Hill, Washington
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