Springhouse Architects

Springhouse Architects Boutique architecture + interior design. Custom homes for clients
who know what they want — and deserve a firm that can deliver it. Founded 2008.

Cincinnati · Dayton · Columbus. springhousearchitects.com Springhouse is an architect-led, design-build company that helps create a home you'll love. 🏠 As a highly sought-after architect, founder Sheri Scott and team leads you through your entire home building project—from dreaming to house warming party.
📍Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati
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05/29/2026

3 Phrases To Use When It' Not Going Well

One of the most important things we do for our clients happens after the design is complete.Construction administration ...
05/28/2026

One of the most important things we do for our clients happens after the design is complete.

Construction administration — the phase where the team is on site, reviewing work, resolving field conditions, and making sure what's being built matches what was designed — is where a lot of projects lose the plot.

At Springhouse, the team that designed your home is the team doing site visits. Not a different division. Not a hand-off. The same people, from the first conversation to the final punch list.

That continuity is what keeps a $6M home from becoming a $6M compromise.

People often ask how the process starts.It doesn't start with a program or a budget or a site plan. It starts with a con...
05/27/2026

People often ask how the process starts.

It doesn't start with a program or a budget or a site plan. It starts with a conversation about how you live — the rhythms of your day, who visits, how the house needs to feel at 7am and at 7pm and at Christmas.

The design comes from that conversation. Every room, every detail, every decision traces back to something that was said in that first hour.

The three projects we're documenting this spring each began that way. You can see it in every design decision that followed.

05/22/2026

A Successful Multigenerational Home

The Legacy Playhouse sits at the highest point in the county outside Chillicothe.The view from this site — across the va...
05/21/2026

The Legacy Playhouse sits at the highest point in the county outside Chillicothe.

The view from this site — across the valley floor, to the forested hillside beyond — is one of those things that stops a conversation. You stand there and you stop talking.

Every room at the rear of this home faces that view. The entire interior-outdoor living sequence was designed around it. The house doesn't just have a view. It's oriented in service of it.

When a site gives you something like this, your job as an architect is simple: don't get in the way.

At Rutherford Retreat, the site told us exactly what to do.The approach — down a private drive, through a winding forest...
05/20/2026

At Rutherford Retreat, the site told us exactly what to do.

The approach — down a private drive, through a winding forest path, and then the slow rise above the pond — wasn't something we designed. It was something we found. Our job was to honor it.

Every design decision at this project was made in service of that arrival sequence and the view it reveals. The home sits at the crest of the rise. The glass wall faces the pond. The boathouse anchors the far edge of the water.

When the design follows the land, the result feels inevitable. That's what we're after.

The second site visit changed everything at The Opus.On the first visit, we knew the land was extraordinary — 25 private...
05/19/2026

The second site visit changed everything at The Opus.

On the first visit, we knew the land was extraordinary — 25 private acres, a pond, the kind of quiet that's hard to find. But it wasn't until the second visit, early in the morning, that we understood what the pond was actually doing.

The light hit it at an angle we hadn't seen before. It changed the entire home's orientation.

That's not a small adjustment. That's a fundamental design decision — made because we came back, at a different time of day, and kept looking.

05/15/2026

Start the HVAC Conversation Early

What does it look like to have three major projects in design and construction simultaneously?For our team of six, it me...
05/13/2026

What does it look like to have three major projects in design and construction simultaneously?

For our team of six, it means every day is a different site, a different set of decisions, a different client's vision moving forward.

We chose to stay this size on purpose. Not because we can't grow — but because this is the size that lets every project get everything.

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205 East Street
Springboro, OH
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