Custom Home Design
Intentional architecture for the way you live.
At DK Studio, we design custom homes that reflect your rhythm, your values, and the beauty of everyday life. As custom home architects based in Austin, we believe your home should do more than look beautiful, it should feel effortless, grounded, and deeply personal.
Each project begins with a conversation, guided by curiosity and care. We listen first, to how you live, how light moves through your day, and what comfort means to you, before shaping the home that will hold your next chapter.
Custom Home Design with DK Studio
From new builds to detailed residential design, our Austin-based studio creates homes that unite timeless character with modern flow.
As Austin residential architects, our work balances proportion, texture, and light to create spaces that feel intentional and connected to nature.
Every home we design is rooted in:
Light: Natural light defines mood and brings energy to daily rituals.
Flow: Thoughtful spatial movement ensures ease and connection.
Materiality: Honest, tactile materials create warmth and depth.
Balance: Every line and volume supports comfort and calm.
What Our Clients Say
“Dianne truly listened. Our home feels like an extension of who we are, open, calm, and filled with light.”
– Megan and Thomas
“Working with Dianne and her team was a joy. Every decision felt intentional, and the result is a home we never want to leave.”
– Sarah and James
Why Choose DK Studio
Choosing the right residential architects means finding a team who understands not just design, but how you live. DK Studio offers a boutique approach, hands-on, collaborative, and deeply rooted in relationship.
We are not a firm, but a residential architecture studio, one that values:
Personal Connection: Dianne and her team work directly with every client.
Design Integrity: Each detail has a purpose and emotional resonance.
Lifestyle Harmony: Homes designed to support life’s quiet rhythms.
Experience: Decades of combined expertise in custom residential architecture and construction collaboration.
Our studio’s designs aren’t about scale or luxury, they’re about how life feels when form and function exist in balance.
Selected Work
Our custom home design projects span Austin and beyond, each one an expression of place, purpose, and personality.
Our Process
Designing a custom home is a deeply collaborative journey.
At DK Studio, our process is hands-on, transparent, and guided by heart.
We begin with discovery, learning your routines, your hopes, and the way you want to feel at home. From there, we guide you through design, documentation, and construction in seamless partnership with builders and craftsmen.
Our process includes:
Discovery & Visioning: Exploring your goals and daily flow.
Design Development: Creating a home that blends beauty and purpose.
Construction Collaboration: Staying engaged through every phase of the build.
Learn more about ourProcess and how we bring architecture to life through collaboration.
Start Your Next Chapter
Your home should feel like a reflection of your life, thoughtful, grounded, and filled with light.
Let’s begin designing a space that tells your story.
FAQs
-
Our studio takes a highly personalized approach. Unlike larger firms, we design with intention and intimacy, each project led directly by Dianne Kett and her team of residential architects who focus on harmony, flow, and comfort.
-
We collaborate closely with residential design build partners to ensure every detail transitions smoothly from drawing to construction, maintaining our shared design vision throughout the process.
-
We begin with a conversation, exploring your goals, style, and site. From there, our home architects develop a concept that reflects how you truly live.
-
Yes. While most of our work is in Central Texas, our custom residential architects occasionally take on select projects throughout Texas and beyond.
-
Every project is unique, but most homes designed by our Austin residential architects move from concept to completion in 12–24 months, depending on scope and site complexity.