http://www.vstudio3.comCopyright Vernacular StudioInterior DesignerGrowing up with artistic parents in the Connecticut countryside, an appreciation of art, design and nature was instilled in Becky at a young age. That appreciation led to a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Interior Design, at the CIDA accredited program at Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, Florida. After graduation, Becky made the move to Canada, working as an interior designer on spaces from Toronto to Vancouver. Several projects that she has worked on have been featured in Canadian House & Home magazine, including her own residence. In search of warmer weather and sweet iced tea, Becky recently relocated to the Triangle area. Her motivation, energy, creativity and passion for design has continued to assist her in creating dynamic interior environments. Becky enjoys traveling, changing peoples' minds about vegan baking one cupcake at a time, and the company of her partner, Chris, their 2 dogs & 2 house rabbits. Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:24:47 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/becky-dominhttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/becky-dominChad was recently interviewed for a Triangle Business Journal article titled, "Smaller homes, but full of amenities". The article focuses on the fact that the average size of a new single family home has dropped over the past year, though the quality expected by most buyers has increased significantly. "More buyers look for smaller homes with lower price points, incorporating designs and features to maximize space is becoming a higher priority" the article states. See this weeks TBJ for Chad's ten tips for improving a home.Wed, 18 May 2011 08:08:54 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/tbj-smaller-homeshttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/tbj-smaller-homesOur team have a collective eight dogs. From time to time they visit the office, howl at passing firetrucks and dig through our trash.Mon, 09 May 2011 07:09:37 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/studio-dogshttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/studio-dogsMay 4, 2011G2B is set to open later this month and there are favorable write-ups in this week's Triangle Business Journal and Durham's Herald-Sun. Gastropub to Beer will open May 23rd in Durham's South Court office complex.Wed, 04 May 2011 16:18:46 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/g2b-set-to-openhttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/g2b-set-to-openRaleigh, NC3000 SFLocated near North Hills, this renovation and addition sets forth to accommodate the needs of a young, growing family while maintaining the midcentury modern undertones found in the existing roofline and open plan within.Wed, 04 May 2011 07:20:37 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/m-househttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/m-houseProject Designereddie@vernacularstudio.comWe are pleased to have Eddie aboard and will have a full bio for him very soon!Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:06:58 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/eddie-laytonhttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/eddie-laytonRaleigh, NC30,000 SFUpdated text coming soon.Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:37:05 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/warehouse-conversionhttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/warehouse-conversionDurham, NC6700 SFUnder Construction - detailed description and photos coming soon.Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:09:34 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/g2bhttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/g2bBrett Hautop has been appointed to join the College of Design's Advisory Board for 2011.Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:33:37 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/brett-hautop-advisory-boardhttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/brett-hautop-advisory-boardTriangle Business Journal held their annual Space Awards on Thursday, January 27th. Chad Parker was on the jury for selecting "the triangle's most prominent economic development projects, innovative commercial real estate developments and largest commercial real estate transactions of the year" (source: TBJ).Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:28:20 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/2011-space-awardshttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/2011-space-awardsRaleigh, NC30,000 SFFounded in 1867, the Alfred Williams Company began as a bookstore and stationery company located on Raleigh's historic Fayetteville Street. They later expanded their services, offering office supplies to local businesses as well as public school textbooks. In 1948, Alfred Williams began supplying office furniture. Since the late 1970's, the company's showroom has been located on a busy stretch of Capital Boulevard. While conveniently located, the busy thoroughfare lacks integration with the urban context of downtown Raleigh.Today, Alfred Williams & Company are members of the Herman Miller Certified Dealer Network and offer interior design services, as well as office environments with in-house delivery and installation. With a focus on customer service and building strong working relationships, the company has considered a return downtown for many years. Chairman and CEO J. Blount Williams expects the new downtown location to perform as a catalyst for renewed energy for the company, all while hosting "a dynamic place for our customers to visit." Their return to downtown Raleigh shows renewed interest in being a part of the vibrant, urban fabric from which the company began over 140 years ago.The design incorporates the same simple, modernist palette found in a number of Herman Miller designs: glass, metal and wood. With refined detailing and materials integration, the design hopes to significantly elevate the street presence by activating a formerly austere concrete box.Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:02:42 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/alfred-williams-companyhttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/alfred-williams-companyChapel Hill, NC5750 SFThe reuse of an uninspiring former restaurant space to become a highly visible and visually stunning new restaurant concept was not easily achieved. The technical challenges of satisfying the requirements of both the health department and those of an owner with extremely discriminating tastes provided another degree of difficulty. Add to that a very aggressive schedule and budget and you get one of the most challenging restaurant projects that the firm has completed to date. In spite of all the challenges, we were able to deliver a striking space that is simultaneously elegant and understated.With a very minimal palette of materials and colors and through the use of simple millwork pieces and drywall planes, the space is activated to display the two key components of the business; cooking and wine. The open kitchen allows the patrons to view the award-winning chef prepare their meals with energy and excitement. The wine is displayed in custom designed wood and steel cabinets which serve functionally as storage for the bottles and aesthetically as a repeating texture that highlights the vast selection of wines that are offered.Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:42:17 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/one-restauranthttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/one-restaurantGreensboro, NC2000 SFThis radio station relocation project is an interior upfit of an existing office and administrative space within the General Classroom Building at NC A&T State University. The project’s main focus was to create a new identity and home for the popular Greensboro / Winston-Salem radio station, WNAA-FM 90.1, by developing a series of spaces to house an On-Air Studio, two production Studios, a Live Conference Studio, administrative offices and office support. The staff and equipment will be relocated from the old space to the new space once the renovation is completed.The design solution considers the broadcast studios as a cluster of rooms, centralized within the existing space, wrapped in a series of staggered wood and perforated metal panels. The finishes and arrangement of the wall panels are subtly influenced by broadcast equipment such as the perforated metal microphone and staggered equalizer bars of the sound board.This project was completed as a collaboration with Vines Architecture.Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:27:27 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/wnaa-fm-901http://www.vstudio3.com/news/wnaa-fm-901Saturday, October 2ndPlease join us at the Barker Residence this Saturday, October 2nd, between 10am and 6pm as we showcase one of the ten homes on the inaugural AIA Triangle Homes Tour. Tickets are still available and images of each home on the tour has been presented on the tour website. We are also excited to see that Barker Residence has been included in the preview slideshow Dwell magazine has featured on their site.See you there!Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:45:25 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/aia-triangle-homes-tourhttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/aia-triangle-homes-tourChad Parker, AIA was featured in this week's "What I've Learned" on local architecture news site Triangle Modernist Houses. What I've Learned is a regularly-updated section which chronicles "insights on life and architecture from the triangle design community". If you'd like to read more about Chad's design philosophy, what it's like to play with a baby tiger, or growing up with feral cats, please read the full post here.Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:13:46 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/tmh-what-ive-learnedhttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/tmh-what-ive-learnedWe are pleased to announced that the Barker Residence has been selected to be featured on the 2010 AIA Triange Homes Tour. The tour will feature several Triangle-area homes designed by other award-winning architecture firms, including Angerio Design, Georgia Bizios, Cherry Huffman, Ellen Cassilly, Frank Harmon, John Reese, Studio B Architecture, and Tina Govan. The Homes Tour website includes bios of each participating architecture firm.We are looking forward to this event, which will take place on Saturday, October 2nd. For more information and tickets, please see the tour website.Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:31:41 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/2010-aia-triangle-homes-tourhttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/2010-aia-triangle-homes-tour August 2010Last weekend, The Bridge House was featured as the News and Observer’s Home of the Month. Each month, the News and Observer features one home on the last Saturday of the month. Design professionals visit the home, speak with the owners and the Architects and contribute an essay and photo gallery for the series. Architect and NC State School of Architecture Professor Wendy Redfield wrote an article for the ongoing Home of the Month series. To describe the house, Redfield states, "rooms and spaces are generous in size, but it is the attention to detail, modulated light, careful combination of materials and responsiveness to the clients' needs that make this house so successful." The homeowners consider the house a success because, "It feels like home."Please take the time to read the full article here.Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:26:35 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/2010-home-of-the-monthhttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/2010-home-of-the-month Hometta Update – Schematic Design Vernacular Studio is well into the schematic design phase for their first set of house plans for Hometta. Our firm was selected out of a large number of national firms to provide modern, yet affordable house plans to a wider based audience. The excerpt below is from an article published in Artists + Artisans which explains why Hometta chose Vernacular Studio out of the numerous applicants to join their team. Among the 24 original firms represented are Roger Sherman of Los Angeles, davidclovers of Hong Kong and Min/Day of San Francisco. Recently selected are Vincent Snyder Architect of Austin, LTL Architects of New York and Vernacular Studio of Raleigh. The founders are careful about who they select, and why. They chose Vernacular, for example, because they’d identified that young North Carolina studio as a group with a substantial body of built work that combined traditional and modern elements. “We’re looking for enthusiasm,” Ann said. “We’re looking for studios that take a good idea and go beyond.” For more on Hometta, go to www.hometta.com. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:39:55 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/homettahttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/homettaNovember 21, 2009Over 100 friends, family and clients (not counting kids!) gathered at our office over the weekend for the 65th-annual Raleigh Christmas Parade. Raleigh's annual holiday parade is the largest between DC and Atlanta (kudos to our friend Gene for  the stat!) and this year nearly 60,000 people turned out for the floats, marching bands and a Santa Claus finale. Our corner location provides an ideal location to view the parade in comfort on what usually turns out to be a chilly winter day...though we were fortunate to have beautiful weather this year!Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:37:30 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/2009-christmas-paradehttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/2009-christmas-paradeJuly 15, 2009We are pleased to announce that 101 Lounge + Café has been awarded a Merit Award for the 2009 NC AIA Design Awards.Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:04:06 +0000http://www.vstudio3.com/news/2009-nc-aia-awardshttp://www.vstudio3.com/news/2009-nc-aia-awards