Remodels & complex renovations
Rework an existing home or commercial property with a clear vision for how it should look, feel, and function.
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.
Indianapolis · Select projects each year
Complex spaces.
Considered transformations.
Architect-led design and build for the remodel, the complicated renovation, and the property with untapped potential.
Architectural and construction management services come together under one point of accountability—from the first sketch through the decisions on site.
Let’s talk about your propertyRemodels / Renovations / Additions / Expansions / Reconfigurations
Architectural vision / Hans C. Johansen
“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
“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.
Personal involvement / From the beginning
Your architect.
At the table.
Clear ideas begin with a conversation—and a sketch.
Steven works directly with you to understand how you live, what needs to change, and where your property has more to give.
Built around existing buildings
The complexity is
where we begin.
An awkward plan. A difficult addition. An older building ready for a new purpose.
We enjoy the questions existing buildings bring: what to preserve, what to change, how to connect old and new, and how to make the investment work harder. House of Savoie focuses on transforming properties through thoughtful architectural design and hands-on construction management.
We take on a limited number of projects each year to give the design, details, and owner the attention they deserve.
What we take on
Additions & expansions
Create more useful space while resolving the relationships between the existing building, new work, and site.
Reconfigurations & adaptive reuse
Rethink a layout or give a building a new purpose while respecting the character that makes it worth keeping.
One point of accountability
The architect’s vision.
The construction decisions.
One coordinated lead.
Define it
Understand your goals, study existing conditions, and establish the scope and target budget.
Design it
Test layouts, visualize possibilities, and coordinate the details and specialists the project needs.
Carry it through
Coordinate construction planning, sequencing, trades, and decisions on site around the design and your priorities.
You have a clear point of contact connecting the architectural and construction management work throughout the project.
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.
Featured project / Custom residential
142 Fairway
Project profile coming soon
Photography and project details will be added here.
Custom residential
138 Fairway
Project profile coming soon
Photography and project details will be added here.
Exterior lifestyle / Outdoor living · In development
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.
The concept and construction imagery documents the outdoor work taking shape. The pool shell installation shows how early ideas become carefully coordinated decisions on site.
In developmentDiscuss 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
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 & DownloadPDF / 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.
Led by an architect
Steven Savoie
RA · NCARB · LEED AP · DBIA Professional
Creative thinking grounded in how buildings are made.
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.
Select projects. Personal attention.
What isn’t working
about your property?
Tell us what you want to change, what you want to keep, and what you hope the space can become.
Let’s discuss your remodel, renovation, addition, expansion, or reconfiguration.