Featured project / Custom residential
142 Fairway
Project story coming soon
Steven SavoieArchitect & founderWith more than 25 years in architecture—including the past decade as lead designer for a national design-builder—Steven pairs creative vision with a practical understanding of cost and construction, shaping distinctive designs around your goals, budget, and what can be built.
Architectural vision / Hans C. Johansen
“Steve has an exceptional design sensibility, but his greatest value is making a strong architectural vision understandable and actionable.”
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“Steve has an exceptional design sensibility, but his greatest value is making a strong architectural vision understandable and actionable. He helps the client see the opportunity and gives the team confidence to move toward it together.”
Hans C. JohansenFounder, ONEVIEW CG · Architectural Visualization
From early ideas to built work / Eric Spohn
“Time and again, I can recognize the thinking from those first conversations in the finished result.”
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“After decades of working with Steve, I still get a kick out of passing a completed building and remembering the early sketches and three-dimensional concepts we discussed years before. Time and again, I can recognize the thinking from those first conversations in the finished result.”
Eric SpohnLongtime professional collaborator
These comments reflect longstanding collaboration with Steven across his professional career, including projects completed before House of Savoie.
Indianapolis · Select projects each year
Architect-led.
Complete accountability:
I design and I build it.
Your vision. One team responsible for designing it and building it.
One agreement brings architectural design and construction together. You have one place to turn for answers and follow-through—from the first sketch through construction.
Design, budget, and buildability develop together, reducing coordination gaps and the finger-pointing that can leave an owner caught between separate architect and builder contracts.
Let’s talk about your propertyRemodels / Renovations / Additions / Expansions / Reconfigurations
01 / Custom residential solutions
A home shaped around
the way you live.
Thoughtful remodels, complicated renovations, additions, expansions, and reconfigurations—connecting architectural design with construction management and personal attention.
Custom residential
138 Fairway
Project story coming soon
Outdoor living / Construction in progress
Fairway Outdoor Living
A pool, poolhouse, and landscape designed for life outdoors.
Fairway Outdoor Living connects the pool, poolhouse, landscape, and shared outdoor spaces into a setting for gathering, relaxing, and everyday family life. The design considers privacy, paths, views, and the relationship to the existing homes as one composition.
See the design concept alongside construction progress, including the pool shell installation.
A coordinated setting for swimming, gathering, and family life—with the poolhouse and outdoor spaces considered together.
Pool shell installation offers a look at the work behind the transformation. The project remains in construction.
Construction in progressDiscuss a property transformation
02 / Developer-led projects
See the potential.
Give it a new purpose.
Architect-led development brings the property, the vision, and the work of transformation together. As a developer, House of Savoie identifies opportunities, shapes the vision, and coordinates the transformation. Tarkington House is a featured example of that work.
Developer profile / Adaptive reuse · Butler–Tarkington, Indianapolis
Tarkington House
An Arts and Crafts home. A new neighborhood gathering place.
Steven and Julie Savoie are transforming the house at 4201 Boulevard Place into a family-run coffeehouse, creamery, and bookshop. Original oak beams, a coffered ceiling, fireplace, French doors, and woodwork guide the design.
The work connects preservation with a new use: a coffee bar and service spaces, welcoming rooms to gather, and an upstairs Book Loft shaped by the existing roofline. Layout, structure, accessibility, and construction decisions develop together.
Before & proposed transformation
Existing photographs paired with design concepts. The proposed views illustrate the vision for the renovation; they are not photographs of completed work.
Coffee bar
Enclosed porch
The Book Loft
House of Savoie development project · Images show design conceptsExplore Tarkington House
Explore. Design. Build.
A clear vision.
A practical path.
Complex remodels, thoughtful additions, and new possibilities for existing properties.
01 / Explore
Find the possibilities.
Listen to your goals, study the existing property, and shape a scope around your priorities and target budget.
02 / Design
Make the vision clear.
Test layouts, visualize the spaces, and connect materials and details with cost and constructability.
03 / Build
Carry it through.
Steven leads the design while our full-time construction project manager coordinates day-to-day work, trades, sequencing, and site decisions.
One accountable team keeps your vision connected to construction. We accept a select number of projects each year to stay personally involved.
Led by an architect
Steven Savoie
AIA · NCARB · LEED AP · DBIA Professional
Creative thinking grounded in how buildings are made.
Steven has served on the AIA Indianapolis Board of Directors for more than 10 years and serves on the Great Lakes Region Board of the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA).
Steven brings more than 25 years of architectural experience to custom residential work, challenging renovations, commercial projects, and store renovations. His strength is quickly turning complex needs into clear design possibilities aligned with an owner’s goals and target budget.
House of Savoie puts that experience to work on select remodels and renovations, connecting architectural judgment with construction management from the beginning. A full-time construction project manager brings day-to-day construction leadership to the team, with one point of accountability for the owner.
Meet Steven / 60 seconds
Building is in my blood.
Design is my passion.
Meet the architect behind House of Savoie and see the thinking that connects your vision with construction.
Homeowner resources / Practical guides
Thinking about calling a builder?
Start with an architect who builds.
Explore what architect-led design and build brings to your remodel, and what one point of accountability means when decisions overlap.
PDF / One-page guide
An Architect. A Builder.
One Accountable Team.
See the possibilities, understand the design, connect choices to budget, and keep the vision connected to construction.
Read & Download
PDF / One-page comparison
Who Owns the Problem?
Compare separate architect and builder agreements with single-contract design-build through a familiar renovation scenario.
Read & DownloadAsk before you sign.
Who contracts for design and construction? Who coordinates changes? How are costs approved? Who manages the schedule, quality concerns, and closeout?
Single-contract responsibility depends on the executed agreement covering both design and construction. Your agreement defines the scope, exclusions, and change procedures.
Select projects. Personal attention.
What isn’t working
about your property?
Tell us what isn’t working in your home, what you want to change, and your anticipated investment. Steven will help you understand the possibilities and the next step.
A few photographs, your location, and your hoped-for timing are a useful starting point for the conversation.