Questions

The studio is at 204 Spooner Lane in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Most of the built work is at South Main in Buena Vista, Colorado, with more in Charleston, Mount Pleasant and North Carolina, and projects in Arizona, Oklahoma and Tennessee. A 2025 sampling of Kenny’s projects covered Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and South Carolina.

Residential architecture, from high end custom homes to affordable housing, including historic urban in-fill, town homes and multifamily buildings. Commercial work focuses on types common to new urban neighborhoods, such as live work, mixed-use and civic buildings.

A Town Architect, or Director of Design, creates a development’s standards, selects approved product manufacturers and vendors, sets up design review procedures, and reviews construction as it happens. Kenny serves in this role at the South Main Neighborhood in Buena Vista, Colorado.

Kenny has been a charrette team member for mixed-use developments around the country. The work includes photo documenting local precedent, defining local indigenous character, exploring building types, designing concept plans and elevations, and drawing perspective studies. Past charrettes were with Town Planning and Urban Design Collaborative and with Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company.

A re-skin is a redrawing of the exterior elevations of a house or building to improve its design, composition and detailing. The studio works from schematic, conceptual or existing designs. Great design doesn’t have to cost more. It generally involves re-arranging current elements and features to improve composition, massing, proportions and details.

Yes. The studio has a growing collection of house plans that can be purchased at plan book comparable rates, with options of localization, elevation re-skinning, alternate elevations, plan options and plan modification or customization. Cut sheets are on the plans page.

A pattern book helps establish and define appropriate details and design characteristics for the local historic architecture of a region, town or community. It can also set desired standards for architectural character and quality in a development, and it gives direction to architects, builders and owners.

Historic urban in-fill is one of the studio’s specialties. In Charleston the studio was the architect of Tu at 430 Meeting Street, and Kenny was involved in the design of two houses on Catfiddle Street, an in-fill pocket neighborhood downtown.

Yes. Kenny is a LEED accredited professional and has been involved on several projects pursuing LEED certification. The studio looks for strategies that reduce impact on the earth and bring tangible benefits, such as reduced utility expenses and improved indoor air quality.

Send a note through the contact page, call 704-408-5501, or email kenny@craftdesign-studio.com. Tell Kenny about the project, its location, its scope and its timing.