We Make Custom Home Design Easy For You

Marre Design offers outstanding custom home design, precisely tailored to you and your family’s individual tastes and style.

Coupled with an unparalleled level of service and attention to detail, our residential design services include everything you need to design and build your forever home, whether you are interested in a major renovation for an existing home, or designing a custom home from the ground up to match your precise needs and wants.

Custom Home Design Services

• Architectural design
• Architectural drawings
• Building Design
• 3D Models of House & Site
• Shadow Studies
• Photorealistic Renderings
• Floor and House Plans
• Flow Charts
• Kitchen & Bathroom Design
• Interior Detailing
• Site Assessment & Planning
• Construction Administration
• Field Review

At Marre Design, we do all of this with less demand on your time and fewer costly change orders during construction. This allows you to enjoy every part of the process of designing your dream home.

Changing Custom Home Design, For The Better

We started with a simple idea: be the change you want to create.

When I started my firm back in 2000, I chose the name Marre Design for a reason. In French slang, to have “marre” means that you’re fed up, things need to change.

At the time, I felt that custom home design was ready for a big change, so I set out to create an alternative approach, one that offers a better experience — a true difference.

Over the past 20 years and more than 300 projects, we have created that change for our clients. With our unique approach, we go all in, completely designing and building every detail of your custom home on paper, well before any hammers start swinging.

This approach provides you with several distinct advantages:

• A faster design process, as much as half the time of other design firms. 
• A greater level of detail, so you can make decisions with confidence.
• More accurate drawings for quicker approvals and more accurate budgets.
• Smoother, faster construction, with fewer change orders, and no surprises.
• All this alleviates rather than adding stress, and makes you a happier homeowner.

For more than 20 years, our commitment to providing a better experience for our clients has consistently delivered the positive change for them that I set out to create 20 years ago…and they love it!

When you’re ready for change, think Marre.

Tom Chute

Principal, Marre Design

I'm Tom, Nice to Meet You!

LEAD DESIGNER & CHIEF CHANGE MAKER

I was so interested in architecture and design that in school I fudged my answers on aptitude tests to skew the results in favor of a career in building design. Not even my years as a competitive snowboarder could sway me from my dream.

In 2000, I founded Marre Design and I haven't looked back.

But what separates me from many designers is actually my on-site experience as a contractor. To get through university, I spent five years as a framing contractor, building large custom homes similar to the homes I design today. That experience and knowledge has been invaluable throughout my career, and has paid dividends for my clients.

Since then, I've resisted the idea of growing big, preferring to take on a limited number of projects at one time. This ensures that my clients receive the level of care and attention they deserve and simply won't find at larger firms.

When the powder is fresh, you might catch me sneaking out of the office to catch a ride in a helicopter to the backcountry, spending quality time riding with my family.

The Marre Design Philosophy

It's a question that often comes up: What design “style” do we prefer?

At Marre Design, we simply love architecture and we love design. We’re passionate about it! We work on projects of all kinds, and sizes, and hope not to be typecast with a specific one. There are some outstanding examples of historic houses, some really beautiful and well-resolved transitional projects, and many modern homes that are truly exceptional, with things to learn and take away from each. 

With every new project, we still get excited to delve into what’s great about the chosen architectural style, and with research and experience, identify what can be done with it – regardless of the number of potentially comparable past projects.

The fundamental principles of good design are not style specific. Proportions of space, layering or framing views, use of light and shadow, form, flow, functionality, and all with a vigilant resolution to the detailing; these principles are universal and timeless and are applied to our projects, irrespective of style. 

Those times when you were in a space that just felt great, or warm, inviting, cozy, peaceful, or even inspiring, but you couldn’t say exactly why, were the result of careful, thoughtful design. That’s the “style” we strive to work in!