Living Space Design
Custom New and Remodel Designs for Homeowners and Architects.
DPS Design focuses on clients’ needs and aesthetics first and foremost.
Terrace Design, Patio Design, Garden Design, and Interior Design.
Living Space Design – Complete Home Design, Gardens, Terraces, Patios, Interiors.
DPS Design creates modern architecture designs and indoor/outdoor living space designs that incorporate contemporary elegance, practical ingenuity, sustainability, and ecologically responsible materials and building methods.
My designs are informed by 14 years of experience as a spacial and environmental designer. I work in an iterative design process where I create Design Plans, 2D illustrations, Photo-realistic Renderings and 3D Architectural Animations, depending on the budget, purpose, and level of detail desired by my clients.
Examples of DP’s Living Space Design Projects – Interior and Exterior, and complete Home Designs
New Passive Home Design in Portugal
Designed by DPS Design, this three bedroom modern home will be built with hempcrete and wood walls and roof. It will take minimal energy to heat and cool because of the passive solar design. Interior and landscape design is also by DPS Design. To be constructed in Coimbra city, Portugal.
Ruin Conversion Home Design in Portugal 3
This former xisto stone ruin is now a two bedroom rustic bungalow with a mezzanine and adjoining cedar wood deck that leads down into a spacious garden. The home is heated with one central masonry heater on the ground floor living room, which is an open floor plan kitchen and dining area as well. Designed by DPS Design.
Ruin Conversion Design in Portugal 2
A spacious one-bedroom ruin conversion with two floors, an office, and outside terrace, located in Central Portugal, designed by DPS Design, featuring original chestnut woodwork and xisto stone work which dates back 500 years or more.
Rustic Home Design in Portugal – Ruin Conversion.
An original, 200 year old xisto stone and chestnut wood house, completely restored and remodeled by DPS Design, with an open floor plan and rustic design ambience.
Lakehouse Design for a Residence in Switzerland.
Modern elegance incorporated into a forested area by a lake, with a sustainable systems such as irrigation, that incorporate elements of the surrounding landscape. Designed by DPS Design.
Shipping Container Home Design for a Rural Residence in Portugal.
Once again playing with the indoor / outdoor living space theme, this four part shipping container house has a greenhouse room with a bar and jacuzzi, and a full library on the top floor via a spiral staircase. Designed by DPS Design.
Barn House Design / Barn Conversion for a residence in Vermont.
Keeping the original elements and structure of the barn, this interior barn conversion design is comfortable and warm, keeping with its ancestral heritage while giving a modern, spacious, open design feel.
Oceanside Bungalow / Beach House Design, California.
The perfect, cozy modern beach house with a viewing, lounge deck and firepit. A summer cottage or winter hideout by the sea.
Outdoor Indoor Living Space design for a residence in California.
Mixing the indoors with the outdoors. The tree room, with reclaimed wood floors and a glass wall bordering the hallway. This residence includes an open air living room and infinity pool with a concrete deck. Designed by DPS Design.
Patio and Deck Design for a Lakehouse in Wisconsin. Teak lounge chairs and a fire pit accent this wooden, multi-toned, round shaped, sunken deck design. Flagstone is the main element in this large patio design, accompanied by curved cable railings made of iron and wood. Designed by DPS Design.
Secret Garden Design for a Residence in Los Angeles. Stone walls capped with granite, reclaimed wood rustic bench, a multi-density custom stone walkway, and a coy pond. Designed by DPS Design.
Tibetan Tea House Design, Los Angeles. Tea Lounge alongside a yoga and meditation studio, for relaxing in between yoga asanas. Designed by DPS Design.
Japanese Forest Cabin Landscape Design for a house in Southern California. For a client who likes the forest ‘as is.’ Designed by DPS Design.
Deck and Garden Design for a residence in Los Angeles. Bare bones modern design with a leisure outdoor area and fruit trees. Designed by DPS Design.
Bathhouse Design for a desert ranch and retreat center in Skull Valley, Arizona. Rustic, urban minimalism with permaculture elements. Includes jacuzzi, bathrooms, showers, and a hot rock sauna. Designed by DPS Design.
Japanese inspired interior design. Loungy bedroom with a 1950s japanese influence. Dark and cozy. Designed by DPS Design.
Terrace design for a mountain residence in Switzerland. Wild flowers are the center of this unexpected central pool, encompassed by flowering trees, ivy planters, and two unique lounge areas. Designed by DPS Design.
Concept for a Mediterranean bathroom / Spa. High modernism with swept concrete walls, all mahogany furnishings, and a floor heating element. Modified Design by DPS Design, from an original design by Sergio Chaparro Mafra.
Desert Cabina Design for a retreat center in Northern Arizona. Includes a rooftop lounge with staircase, and green building design (rammed earth), with a water catchment system. Designed by DPS Design.
