Amacher and Associates Architects

Francesca was our architect for a major addition and remodeling project we did in 1987-88. We expanded our kitchen, added a large living room and loft, and modified two bedrooms and a dining room. It all worked out fine and we have enjoyed the new spaces for the last 35 years. Her design captured the mid-century modern style of our neighborhood and provided us with a comfortable and functional space for our whole family of 5.

They are expert at listening to need of customer and designing the building to what they hear. They are artistic, but practical.

Franziska worked with us to design a transformation of our three story 1868 workers housing building with many small dark rooms into a stunning open and bright home for us and a small apartment for us to rent. Her knowledge of natural lighting is superb. We now have morning sunlight pouring from one end of our house to the other from early Fall to late Spring. This really brightens our spirits daily and I never would have thought of it. She was a pleasure to work with. I'm very detail oriented and in some cases, particularly both kitchens, I spent a lot of her time suggesting different options. She never became impatient and the results of our exchanges was always better than what I'd had in mind. She is also particularly good at making small spaces function and feel as if they are much larger. The apartment is only 400 sq ft and yet it gets rave reviews from our tenants. Franziska is also very knowledgeable about retrofit energy conservation. She cut our energy use to less than half of what it was.