Architecture & Interiors
Our Team With an award-winning, multi-disciplined staff of architects and interior designers, we are uniquely qualified and passionate about creating transformative spaces. Our design talent is only as good as our ability to develop a product to complement our client’s vision.
Chris Reebals President & Principal Architect AIA, NCARB, ICAA
Mack Braden Vice President & Studio Operations Director AIA, NCARB
Ria Neill Vice President & Design Director AIA, NCARB
Carleone Posala Director of Commercial Architecture MArch, BAS, NDAT, AIA Associate
Whitney Tingle Director of Interiors RID, IIDA, NCIDQ
Leigh Ann Harris Director of Product & Procurement RID, IIDA, NCIDQ
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Emily Hurt Sr. Interior Designer RID, NCIDQ
Chelsea Braden Sr. Architectural Project Manager
Cristen Cagle Sr. Interior Designer NCIDQ
Josh Adams Project Architect
Emily Lopez Project Architect, AIA, NCARB
Liz Hyatt Architectural Project Manager
Mason Cunningham Architectural Project Manager
Alex Harvill Architectural Project Designer
Madi Gray Project Designer, ASID
Isabelle Brown Project Designer
Katie Hamlin Procurement Specialist
Bailey Founds Project Designer
Ashley Carroll Project Designer
Bella Rizzo Assistant Designer
Landon Sessions Business Development Manager
Clara Posala Client Services Director
Kristen Milling, CPA Controller
Corey Flowers Office Manager
Chris Cornett Chief Operating Officer
Caroline Thomas Director of Special Projects
Lucy Jane Ragsdale Marketing Specialist
Blake Snetman Business Development
Lauren Bell Graphic Designer
Libby Adams Events & Programming Coordinator
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About Us Our vision is to have a lasting impact on the built environment through inspirational and enduring design. We are a small team that prides ourselves on fostering an environment that provides great opportunity for growth by exercising individual gifts and talents. Within CAI designers have the opportunity to work across platforms including residential, commercial, and interior environments. As a small business, we have a deep familial bond and take a personal interest in the success of individual employees while offering strong benefits including health, dental, disability insurance and 401(k). CAI is committed in excellence in all that we do. Our firm’s ability to provide a unified architectural and interior design approach offers exceptional synergy, extreme efficiency of production and unsurpassed quality of product. Beyond Christopher Architecture & Interiors, we are a family of brands molded together by vertical integration that allows our employees to engage in a variety of interests and industries including development, retail, furniture design, construction, real estate, and the non-profit sector.
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About Us Christopher Architecture & Interiors (CAI) is a luxury design firm specializing in Custom Residential, Boutique Commercial, and Estate & Land Planning.
Who we are
How we work
Reasons to Consider CAI
We craft meaningful designs, striving for timeless beauty and elegance for our clients who desire an inspiring product and fully customized experience.
Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. Creating space to frame your life is a monumental process. Entering a room should evoke a response. When engaged in a project, we focus our combined passion and talent on crafting a curated environment for you and your family. We believe our approach is the best methodology for producing inspirational designs.
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With an award-winning, multidisciplined staff, we are uniquely qualified and passionate about creating transformative spaces. Our team members uniquely integrate across disciplines — architecture, interiors, and landscaping — to create a cohesive environment that reflects each client’s specific vision of living, work, and play. We believe a seamless blend of responsive architecture and thoughtful interiors beautifies our surroundings and improves our life experience. We find joy in collaborating with clients who are passionate about design and are dedicated to uncompromising excellence.
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That is why our architects, interior designers, and professional consultants work hand in hand throughout the entire process. Working with a passionate clientele, highly skilled designers, meticulously vetted consultants, and discerning craftsmen, CAI is committed to excellence through teamwork.
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Award-winning design team A strict commitment to excellence Fastidious attention to details Impeccable documentation Comprehensive ecosystem Uniquely integrated architecture and interior design methodology Commitment to building enduring structures and lasting relationships Proven track record of adding value to the built environment Efficiency in deliverables and cost savings with integrated services Creation of investment-grade legacy projects Client Liaison throughout the project and beyond Customizable contract options Iterative Design Process Collaborative and Inclusive Client and Design Team Approach
Collaborative Efficiencies
Interior Furnishings & Decor
Project Customization
Typically design firms handle the architecture and interior design components separately or at different phases, but we offer both services concurrently. This specialized ability to provide a unified design approach enables CAI to ensure exceptional congruency in design, extreme efficiency of production, and unsurpassed results. By integrating, our end product is more symbiotic but also our fees on average are 20% less than when offered separately.
To complete the design of your space, we encourage our clients to utilize our interior furnishings and decor services. Every project is customized to meet our clients’ needs and we work with you to establish budgets, timelines, and installations accordingly. By offering these services, we ensure furnishings and decor enhance the home’s overall design aesthetic.
Every project is as unique as your vision and the site it is built on. For this reason, we offer customized options based on the owner’s programmatic needs and requests. Typically, our design services integrate architecture, interior design, decorating and procurement. However, since each project is unique, we will tailor our services to meet your needs.
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Our Services Due to the distinct nature of every project, we can offer a tailored experience to meet each client’s programmatic needs and requests. The following lists below offers insight into our service offerings. Incorporating all services will ultimately create the most unified design, but we can also provide architecture, interior design, decorating and procurement services independently. We are happy to discuss the most appropriate scope of services based on your project’s needs.
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Client Briefing Contractual Agreement Site Inventory and Analysis Regulatory Authority Coordination Master Planning and Feasibility Studies Architectural & Interior Programming Project Scheduling Project Phasing High Quality Design Presentations Design Development Drawings Code Analysts Material Selection & Specification
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High-end photo-realistic visualization services (Animations and/or still images) Concept & Schematic Design Consultant Engagement, Management and Coordination Project Budget & Cost Analysis Construction Documentation Architectural & Interior Detailing Building Information Modeling (BIM)
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Our Approach Christopher Architecture and Interiors’ approach to design emerged over 30 years ago and has been carefully refined since. Our process begins by acknowledging every project is unique and the design process needs to being with listening to our client’s needs and aspirations. Following this distillation process, our experience has taught us that the best outcomes are achieved when our team carefully crafts the rest of that process to suit the goals and objectives of each project.
Design Excellence
Delivering Value Through Design
Client Engagement
Our team has been nationally recognized for excellence in design and firmly believes that every project offers unique opportunities to create exceptional creative outcomes.
Collaborative design by expects can increase resale value by up to 30%, yet true value lies in home being spaces were memories are created and life is lived, showcasing the transformative power of great design beyond monetary worth.
Authentic design results from building strong client-design team relationships. By deeply understanding clients’ needs, goals, and lifestyle, we create responsive environments tailored to each individual.
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Client Inspired Design Focused Quality Driven
Professional Collaboration
Harnessing Technology
Iterative Development
Our collaborative process involves close teamwork between architects, interior designers, and a network of specialized consultants, ensuring intricate integration and meeting diverse needs in every project.
Our approach integrates groundbreaking technology to streamline routine tasks, empowering designers to focus on creative exploration, utilizing traditional methods while efficiently gather, documenting, and visualizing design.
Our team is well positioned to explore numerous design solutions in a diligent manner. These studies are constantly evaluated, revised, merged and further developed. This ensures that every idea is scrutinized to the same degree, allowing the best option to rise to the top.
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Our Beliefs It is our mission to inspire, create, nourish, and stimulate a broader appreciation for excellence in design and its importance to individuals and societies. We strive to seamlessly blend responsive architecture and thoughtful interiors to create a cohesive environment that complements each client’s specific needs. There are certain beliefs and ideologies that form the foundation of our approach to achieve this mission.
Contextual
Simplicity
Simply stated, design must address context. It is imperative to understand and incorporate the contextual vernacular in all our designs. For our team, the topography of a site, adjacent structures, sun angles, climate and other contextual nuances are studied before our first concepts are created. This integration is reflected in all aspects of the design; the interiors, landscape responses and building systems, among others, are all blended with the architecture to create complimenting spaces and holistic design compositions. The success of these compositions is realized by a seamless transition from the natural environment to the created space. We rely on the talent of like-minded designers, both internally and externally, to fully execute this integration.
It is said that simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. In many respects the most sophisticated designs are created when beautiful materials create a subtle transition of space or when the simplicity of an elegant form responds to the natural contours of a site. The beauty of an organic stone face or the varied characteristics of a wood grain should be able to express themselves without the forced pronouncement of an ill-conceived design. A project’s site demonstrates the innate complexity found in nature and should be complimented by a design that is responsive and deferential. The sophistication inherent in stone, wood and nature allow us to create simple forms that will highlight materials, space, sunlight and the personality of the occupants.
Timelessness
Elegance
We believe that there is both an objective and subjective component to design. Architecture and design should appeal to subjective sensibilities without compromising objective beauty. Style and trends can evoke different responses in every person. However, within that subjective frame there are objective qualities which transcend individual preferences. We believe that our designs should be beautiful today and for centuries to come. Because of this we try not to associate a definitive style but rather apply classic and objective principles to inspire a truly pleasing design. Materials should weather beautifully. Elements should contain elegant proportions. Designs should respect their natural environment. Great design will speak to subjective preconceptions and thus become objectively beautiful.
Articulating elegance is as much a challenge in written word as it is in form and composition. A pen in the hand of an artist can manifest a composition that is beautiful in form and appearance. We believe that the motion of design should create a form that silently proclaims elegance. Not easy to define or create, elegance is easily recognizable. The observer may feel compelled to stop in front of a welldesigned structure and just look. Every time we put our pen to paper and design, we are pouring our heart and passion into creating a space that will transfix the observer. Elegance is born of the subtle details and nuances that differentiate good design from great design.
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Alys Beach I Private Residence
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Alys Beach II Private Residence
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Orange Beach Private Residence
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Lake Logan Martin Private Residence
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Cahaba River Road Private Residence
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Smith Lake Private Residence
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Sheffield Lane Private Residence
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The Highlands Private Residence
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Smith Lake Private Residence
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Smith Lake Private Residence
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Canterbury Road Private Residence
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Lake Martin Private Residence
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The Heritage I Lake Martin
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The Heritage II Lake Martin
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Birmingham 2601 Highland Avenue South Birmingham, Alabama 35205 (205) 413.8531
Chris Reebals chris@christopherai.com
Mack Braden mack@christopherai.com
Ria Neill ria@christopherai.com
Carleone Posala carleone@christopherai.com
Whitney Tingle whitney@christopherai.com
Emily Hurt emilyh@christopherai.com
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