LGA STUDIOS BLOG
Your Step-by-Step Home Remodel Plan
A successful remodel doesn’t start with demo day — it starts with a clear plan. From defining your goals and setting a realistic budget to working with a skilled residential designer, this guide walks you through every step. Whether you’re updating a kitchen, reimagining a historic home, or preparing to age in place, we share practical tips to help you remodel with confidence.
ADUs: The Ultimate Guide for Colorado Homeowners
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) are gaining popularity in Colorado Springs as versatile solutions for expanding living space, generating rental income, or accommodating family. Whether you’re looking to build a detached backyard cottage, convert your garage into a studio, or design a custom ADU that blends seamlessly with your home, this guide covers everything you need to know. From zoning laws and design ideas to budgeting tips and real-life success stories, LGA Studios shares insights to help you create a functional, stylish ADU that fits your lifestyle.
Designing a Dream ADU in Colorado Springs: Custom Design with Net-Zero Goals
Building a custom ADU in downtown Colorado Springs takes creativity, smart design, and sustainable solutions. See how LGA Studios helped clients bring their unique vision to life with a net-zero design featuring Faswall Blocks, a rooftop gazebo, and space for a baby grand piano. This project blends personal style with thoughtful energy efficiency — perfect for those seeking eco-friendly living solutions.
Must-See Homes at the 2024 Colorado Springs Parade of Homes
It’s that time of year again – and LGA Studios has two homes featured in the 2024 Colorado Springs Parade of Homes! We’re thrilled and proud beyond measure to have designed two extraordinary homes in collaboration with our wonderful clients and two incredible local builders.
Behind the Design: A Refined Industrial Colorado Home
Something we love most about our jobs as designers is understanding how setting informs and interacts with built spaces, and this home – brought to life beautifully by Colarelli Custom Homes – embodies that idea artfully.
Colorado Springs Parade of Homes: Check out Summit Serenity, a Luxe Custom Home by LGA Studios
If you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend, don’t miss the final days of the Colorado Springs Parade of Homes! There are some fantastic entries this year – spread all throughout the Springs – and we always enjoy this annual showcase of home design, craftsmanship, and inspiration. LGA Studios is proud to have one of our designs featured this year: Home 31 – Summit Serenity.
Rocky Mountain Food Tour
Our office went on a Rocky Mountain Food Tour in September, and we had so much fun! As a hardworking group of mostly introverts, our office had been looking for an activity to do together to kick off the last quarter of the year. We all share a fondness for our beloved downtown, history, architecture, supporting local businesses, and, most importantly, food, so this was a perfect afternoon out for us!
Groundbreaking in Stratton Pines
In early June, we were thrilled to attend a groundbreaking ceremony with our fantastic clients and their builders – the awesome Solid Rock Custom Home team! The lot, nestled into the woods and hillside, is located in the stunning Stratton Pines neighborhood in the foothills of Cheyenne Mountain. The home will feature prominent trusses and stone for a Mountain Modern appearance, and will include fabulous outdoor living space.
Colorado Ranch Lifestyle - A Home Trend with Intention
The past couple years have led to a lot of adjustments and reevaluations about priorities in life and how we all choose to spend our time. With so many dramatic changes to everything, from how we travel and see friends and family to how and where we work over the course of the pandemic, most of us have been home a lot more than perhaps we had before. Our homes have had to become our offices, our theaters, our restaurants, and our hobby and play areas, and that’s led to a more thoughtful approach to home design.
Site Visit: Kissing Camels, Part 1
Seeing a custom design we’ve created with our clients take shape on-site is one of the best parts of our job. This project—a six-bedroom custom residence in Kissing Camels—has been a privilege and a pleasure to work on, and our clients have generously granted us permission to share a few construction updates as it comes together!
A 1980s Home Gets an Uplifting Contemporary Remodel
Remodeling a home can be a daunting yet rewarding challenge for homeowners, and we were honored to be part of the process for this custom home remodel in the Sunset Mesa neighborhood of Colorado Springs! Our clients worked with Pregio Homes to turn a house that had good bones but was a bit dark and dated into a stunning light-filled home that shines with contemporary warmth and personal touches.
Housewarming for a New Modern Farmhouse
There’s nothing we love more than seeing our clients moved in and enjoying their new home. Our team loved designing and working on this custom Modern Farmhouse that sits on twenty acres of land, and when our clients invited us out to their open house (and blackberry picking!), we were thrilled to see the final results!
Colorado Springs Historic Architecture Tour
The American Institute of Building Design (AIBD) Conference was hosted in Colorado Springs this year, and this summer’s theme was “Defining Your Architectural Style.” The AIBD always puts together a great conference and often includes local tours as well, and this year Larry Gilland was delighted to help put together a tour of some of the historic architecture of his hometown!
Hillside Home: Building Site Progress
Stunning progress shots from a custom home we loved working on! What a view! Still, after all these years in business, it's a thrilling feeling to see our clients' visions come to life.
LGA Studios-Designed Home in Colorado Springs Earns LEED Platinum Certification
LGA Studios could not be more proud to be part of the project featured in this post: a stunning modern home in Mountain Shadows that was just awarded LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).