Rawlings Design, Inc.

I have to admit that after working with dozens of architects and designers in Georgia, California and Missouri, Eric Rawlings is incredibly talented and the absolute best to work with on a project. He brings a personal interest into your projects, and dreams with you until you come up with the perfect design. I obviously highly recommend Eric to any of you that have architectural and or design needs.

I've worked with Eric on a couple of Custom Homes and can honestly say he's a pleasure to work with. Teamed with his creative design, knowledge and experience we were able to create two spectacular homes. I've recommended his design services to several clients and look forward to future projects with him. Take a look at our collaborations:

Eric designed a custom home for our clients (Butler Byrd Residence). It was a pleasure working with him to revise the plans in a collaborative way. As a design professional myself, it is refreshing to work with other Architects who have a sensitivity and passion for the residential scale. The home is a testament to Eric's skill in crafting a home reflecting our client's unique taste and lifestyle. We hope Custom Dwellings has the opportunity to work with Eric again on future builds.

We worked with Eric on the design our our house in Decatur, GA. Ours was a renovation. I remember the first time we met Eric spend a few hours walking around the existing structure with us asking us what we wanted out of a house, how we wanted the space to flow, how we would use the space and what design elements we were leaning towards. While we made some adjustments to his initial drawings, there were not many. He was professional, easy to work with and most importantly sincere to our input and our needs for our our home, while making sure it would all work out structurally. We would work with him and Arlene and her team again in a heartbeat! Thank you for building us our dream home!

Rawlings Design is an incredible firm. From start to finish, our entire project was exciting and wonderful in every way. We were surprised at how well Eric Rawlings listened to us because time and time again he delivered exactly the vision that we had in mind. His first rendering of our home came back at about 90% perfect. And from there, we just tweaked and tweaked until it was beyond perfect. We took our time reviewing each version of the design so that all our revisions were thoughtful, purposeful, and a certain improvement. During our first meeting, Eric asked us what we'd like to see. My husband said he wanted a river in the house. Seriously. Given that a river in the house would cause humidity problems, Rawlings Design encased a koi pond with 10' tall windows. It's the first thing I see when I open the front door and it never ceases to be a welcoming view--with water lilies in bloom, our resident frog perched atop a lily pad, and all our little goldfish just peacefully swimming about--all stress just evaporates. Our home just embodies serenity and beauty (in our opinion). In addition, the house was designed with such care and purpose that each area of the house relates to things like the sun, the way water reflects and dances on the ceiling, the visual axis from the front to the back. Perfect. Eric said, "doesn't this remind of you Venice?" Well, of course it does! We love our house. It's perfect for us. Rawlings Design is beyond ordinary. We would hire him again in a heartbeat. In fact, we wouldn't even consider hiring anyone else. He is truly a talented architect and a very pleasant person to work with.

We really enjoyed working with Eric Rawlings on the design of our house. I work with industrial designers as part of my profession and I've learned that the best ones are those who can combine a strong creative vision with a real good practical understanding of construction and engineering. Eric is really strong in both his creativity/vision and his knowledge of engineering/construction. The result for us is a beautiful house that came in a bit under budget without any significant construction issues. Besides being a smart and knowledgeable architect, Eric is extremely easy to work with. He did an excellent job asking us a lot of questions to really understand what we were looking for. He's a good listener and he puts his ego aside to make sure it is his client's vision that he then turns in to a beautiful design. One other measure for me of a talented designer/architect is the ability to take a lot of input and then come back with a design that goes beyond what we had even imagined. Eric's design concept that he presented us took our thoughts and ideas and translated them in to something even more striking than we had imagined. We have been in our house for 2.5 years now and love it. I am still impressed with how well thought out the entire layout is. My wife and I would highly recommend Eric to anyone considering building or renovating a home.

We hired Eric to design our home from the ground up. After a couple meetings talking about what we wanted for the house both inside and out he came up with an incredible design. We tweeked that initial design until it was perfect and then started building. Not only was the design fantastic, Eric was there every step of the framing, adding his input and making sure everything went perfect! Anyone who has seen the house comments on it's pure beauty and incredible architecture! In addition to an incredible architect, Eric, is so much fun to work with and so easy to work with. He was so fully committed to our project it was hard to imagine he was working on anything else at the same time.

Eric Rawlings designed our new home, both the structure and many built-ins. We gave him some general parameters and set his creativity free. He came up with a great design that was both functional and aesthetically pleasing. He was wonderful to work with, incorporating changes we requested and patiently trying different options as we "tweaked" his initial design to get things "just right." He does everything on a CAD system, so he could show us both 2D and 3D renderings as we considered design options. His services were very reasonably priced; he even threw in a cool mailbox design for free.

Eric was the architect on our new home in Decatur, GA. We found him to be a creative and hard-working partner in designing our home. He was open to our questions and ideas and always completed his work for us on time and in a professional manner. We love our home and all of the spaces that Eric created or us. He worked closely with our builder to be sure that our home was all that we had imagined.