APPROACH
CahillStudio views the design of a custom home as a rewarding, collaborative journey—an opportunity to create spaces that reflect our clients’ lifestyles and connection to place. Founder Chris Cahill believes the process should be both engaging and enjoyable, resulting in homes that authentically express their owners’ values and what they love.
Our work is distinguished by designs that honor their sites and respond to their natural surroundings. Rooted in modern principles, each project synthesizes the essentials of building design — site, structure, and enduring materials — with a careful consideration of space and light. Every commission is approached as an opportunity for innovation, guided by collaboration and grounded in our clients’ aspirations, goals, and budget. Just as important, we recognize that success depends on clear, consistent communication among the client, design team, and builder.
Since its founding, CahillStudio has been committed to creating residences that celebrate the individuality of our clients. We draw on lasting partnerships with artisans, craftspeople, and builders, engaging them from start to finish. This spirit of collaboration enriches the process, reveals the full potential of design, and leads to thoughtful solutions.
Each CahillStudio home begins with careful and strategic integration of site planning and building design, and is a response to its physical and cultural setting, and the essential values of our client—the embodiment of their lifestyle and how they choose to relate to their site and natural environment. Above all, our goal is to create homes that enhance the rhythms of daily life and deepen connection to place.
"Chris is a great listener, and his interactions with the clients are very clean, respectful, and considerate…I’ve thought the communication and collaboration is some of the best I’ve had. I like his ideas, and he has a good vision.”
— Robin Guilfoyle, Robinwood Construction
“We have done several successful projects with Chris at CahillStudio Sonoma, one of them a national ASLA award winner. Chris has the site design skills and the eye for detail that makes for graceful and interesting buildings and properties. We highly recommend you contact Chris for your custom residential design needs.”
— Dave Roche, Roche + Roche Landscape Architecture
