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Architectural Design Services

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Experience You Can Trust

Designing a home should feel inspiring—not overwhelming. At BrightBuilt Home, we provide architectural design services rooted in clarity, performance, and long-term livability, guiding you from early ideas to a fully realized vision.

Our team brings together architecture, sustainability, and building science to create homes that are beautiful, durable, and thoughtfully aligned with how you live. Whether you’re exploring a new build, a high-performance home, or a future-forward construction approach, we help illuminate the best path forward.

Since 2008, we’ve been guiding homeowners through a smarter, more transparent design process—one that replaces uncertainty with confidence and intention.

BUILDING SCIENCE

Designing Homes That Last

From energy efficiency to healthier materials, sustainable architecture continues to shape how homes are designed and built. Explore the latest trends—and how thoughtful design choices today can support comfort, performance, and longevity for years to come.

A Home That Reflects How You Live

Explore thoughtfully designed homes shaped by performance, place, and purpose.

White two-story house with solar panels surrounded by trees and green lawn

Appledore

A classic gable-end white farmhouse with a full-length porch draws inspiration from its local roots.

White house with solar panels, surrounded by autumn trees and landscaped garden

Cushing

A blend of modern and traditional, this design features banks of glass, tall ceilings, and an open first-floor living space.

Small cottage with porch, surrounded by trees, with a person playing outside

Drisko

This compact, well-designed single-floor home features a cozy entry deck, single-car garage, and sunny side deck, inspired by Maine’s mill town homes.

Solar-powered blue house in snowy forest with wooden porch

Foxbird

Our featured ranch design offers efficient single-floor living with ample light, comfort, and space. A walkout or daylight basement nearly doubles its size.

Modern black house with solar panels nestled in pine forest landscape

Frenchboro

This adaptable single-floor design offers ample living space, an attached two-car garage, and options for a classic or sleek roof style.

Modern white farmhouse with metal roof glowing at twilight in grassy field

Great Diamond

Reminiscent of Maine’s iconic barns, this design blends comfort with efficiency. Its compact footprint is ideal for tight lots, wooded sites, and rolling fields.

Modern cabin with red roof nestled in lush green forest on raised deck

Highland

Drawing inspiration from the quintessential Maine camp, this design offers rustic charm and is the perfect vacation home or primary residence.

Cozy wooden cabin with blue metal roof in autumn forest at dusk

Jewell

This design nods to Maine’s agrarian roots while embracing modern innovation, offering flexible work, leisure, and living in a compact footprint.

Modern small wooden cabin with large windows in lush green garden

Jordan

Perfect for tight spaces or alongside existing homes, this design offers modern amenities, creative storage, and cutting-edge, energy-efficient construction.

Green wooden house with two-car garage in forested area at sunset

Little Diamond

This design reinvents the classic New England Cape with exposed beams and a double-height window wall, creating grand, light-filled spaces.

Blue solar-powered house with large windows in wooded lakeside setting

Mackworth

One of our largest designs, this spacious home draws from Maine’s vernacular, adapting to any site and accommodating families of all sizes.

Modern black house with solar panels in wooded setting near smaller cabin

Perkins

Blending Scandinavian elegance with high-performance design, this modern farmhouse offers flexible, sun-filled spaces and energy-efficient construction.

White tiny house with deck in wooded area during autumn

Sterling

Designed for quick installation as an ADU, this home offers a compact yet functional layout with customizable rooflines, kitchen, and finishes to suit your style.

Blue tiny house with deck nestled in autumn forest surrounded by trees

Torrey

Designed for homeowners seeking extra space on demand, this ADU features a compact layout with modern elements and energy-efficient construction.

Blue tiny house with deck nestled in autumn forest surrounded by trees

Torrey

Designed for homeowners seeking extra space on demand, this ADU features a compact layout with modern elements and energy-efficient construction.

Modern white farmhouse with metal roof glowing at twilight in grassy field

Great Diamond

Reminiscent of Maine’s iconic barns, this design blends comfort with efficiency. Its compact footprint is ideal for tight lots, wooded sites, and rolling fields.

Green wooden house with two-car garage in forested area at sunset

Little Diamond

This design reinvents the classic New England Cape with exposed beams and a double-height window wall, creating grand, light-filled spaces.

White two-story house with solar panels surrounded by trees and green lawn

Appledore

A classic gable-end white farmhouse with a full-length porch draws inspiration from its local roots.

Blue solar-powered house with large windows in wooded lakeside setting

Mackworth

One of our largest designs, this spacious home draws from Maine’s vernacular, adapting to any site and accommodating families of all sizes.

Small cottage with porch, surrounded by trees, with a person playing outside

Drisko

This compact, well-designed single-floor home features a cozy entry deck, single-car garage, and sunny side deck, inspired by Maine’s mill town homes.

White house with solar panels, surrounded by autumn trees and landscaped garden

Cushing

A blend of modern and traditional, this design features banks of glass, tall ceilings, and an open first-floor living space.

Cozy wooden cabin with blue metal roof in autumn forest at dusk

Jewell

This design nods to Maine’s agrarian roots while embracing modern innovation, offering flexible work, leisure, and living in a compact footprint.

Solar-powered blue house in snowy forest with wooden porch

Foxbird

Our featured ranch design offers efficient single-floor living with ample light, comfort, and space. A walkout or daylight basement nearly doubles its size.

Modern black house with solar panels in wooded setting near smaller cabin

Perkins

Blending Scandinavian elegance with high-performance design, this modern farmhouse offers flexible, sun-filled spaces and energy-efficient construction.

Modern black house with solar panels nestled in pine forest landscape

Frenchboro

This adaptable single-floor design offers ample living space, an attached two-car garage, and options for a classic or sleek roof style.

Modern small wooden cabin with large windows in lush green garden

Jordan

Perfect for tight spaces or alongside existing homes, this design offers modern amenities, creative storage, and cutting-edge, energy-efficient construction.

White tiny house with deck in wooded area during autumn

Sterling

Designed for quick installation as an ADU, this home offers a compact yet functional layout with customizable rooflines, kitchen, and finishes to suit your style.

Modern cabin with red roof nestled in lush green forest on raised deck

Highland

Drawing inspiration from the quintessential Maine camp, this design offers rustic charm and is the perfect vacation home or primary residence.

Your Vision, Our Expertise

Discover how working with BrightBuilt helped shape a personalized, Net-Zero Ready home—where thoughtful design, efficiency, and comfort come together through a guided architectural process.

Modern gray house with green roof and solar panels in autumn forest

Working with BrightBuilt Home

Step 1: Pick Your Base Plan (or go fully custom!)


Your project team will then work with you to develop layouts and features that suit your lifestyle, your wants, and your needs. From locating the home on your site to helping you pick out your kitchen cabinets, we guide you through the whole of the design process. By finalizing the design, programmatic needs of the home, site placement, finish selections, and any added structures, we can also help you get a long way down the road to the final all-in costs for the project. This front-end decision making lends itself to price predictability, and, accordingly, alleviates the budget-anxiety often felt with custom design/build projects that can meander through a drawn-out decision process, change orders, and unpredicted delays.

Step 2: Choose Your Production Method

Depending on the specific variables related to your project, you may choose to engage in either off-site or on-site construction. We are large proponents of off-site construction practices for the following reasons:

  1. Your new home will be built in a climate-controlled environment, not a torrential downpour.
  2. Your new home will be carefully measured, precision framed, and systematically trimmed and detailed.
  3. Materials will be purchased and used to maximum efficiency, and their cost will be known at the outset of the project.

Building the bulk of the home off-site also means that the construction time on site will be shortened, thus reducing impact on the neighbors and the need for extensive long-term staging on your property. However, we also know that there are instances in which off-site construction is not a viable option. We believe that each client should have the ability to choose the construction approach that makes the most sense for their project, and we are well-versed in collaborating with general contractors to support on-site construction.

Step 3: Finish Out & Celebrate

The house is whole, the roof is on, the windows are trimmed, and plumbing and electrical is installed… It’s time for the finishing touches. Kitchen countertops, siding and trim, decks and porches, mechanical systems, finish paint, and brand new floors come together, and in turn, your house becomes your home. Your general contractor, whom you’ve selected on your own, out of our roster, or with our help, is your local resource — your conduit to the local deals, tradespeople, and insights that will help any project go smoother than if an outsider was dropping in for the duration. From there all that is left is to move in and relax. You’re home.

Ready to Get Started?

Let’s explore your vision and create a clear, confident path forward—with architectural design guided by experience and purpose.

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