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Our blog, Design Matters, is a place for our team to share our knowledge, community events, projects, resources, and opinions. It is a place for you to keep up with us and for us to hear from you. Thanks for reading!

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#NationalPizzaDay Celebration!!!

By cbhendricks | February 4, 2023 | architecture, Office Culture

Our Harrisonburg team loves to come together to eat and celebrate food, and what better way than to celebrate ...

Welcome Asha Beck to the Team

By Charles Hendricks | February 3, 2023 | architecture, Office Culture, team

It’s the turn of a new year and we are happy to share that our team continues to grow with the recent addition of ...

Welcome Myles Perdue to the Team

By Charles Hendricks | January 31, 2023 | architecture, Office Culture

Meet Myles Perdue, one of our newest designers at Gaines Group Architects. Originally from the U.S. Virgin Islands ...

National #LibraryShelfieDay

By Charles Hendricks | January 19, 2023 | architecture, Office Culture

Happy national #LibraryShelfieDay! We love the digital world, but there’s nothing like holding a book in your ...

#wedesignthattoo Kitchen Edition

By cbhendricks | January 11, 2023 | architecture, Indoor Air Quality, project update

We get to design a lot of cool spaces for our clients and kitchen design may be one of my favorites. As a former ...

Visualization of the dream

By Charles Hendricks | January 7, 2023 | architecture

As architects and designers, we have the privilege of being trusted with our client's dreams. A client might dream ...

Historic Farmhouse Renovation in Luray

By cbhendricks | January 5, 2023 | architecture, project update

Almost at the end of a dead end road overlooking the South Fork River a beautiful historic farmhouse was ...

Gaines Group Architects Elevates New Partners

By cbhendricks | January 3, 2023 | Charles Hendricks, Office Culture, team

Gaines Group Architects has elevated four new partners to the leadership of the firm: James Halstead, Deborah ...

Celebrating 2022 Architecture Fun!

By cbhendricks | January 1, 2023 | architecture, citizen architect, Fun, Office Culture

We loved celebrating together in 2022 all the architecture fun things, special days, and events! We are a small ...

Construction progress highlights this year

By cbhendricks | December 29, 2022 | architecture, project update

We have had some pretty awesome projects come up out of the ground this year. While it is super fun to design a ...

Detached garage / barn / workshop Addition

By cbhendricks | December 27, 2022 | architecture, project update

We get to work with some amazing people on some really cool projects. This project in particular has some of my ...

#HilltopHouse, this one is amazing

By cbhendricks | December 24, 2022 | architecture, project update

The #HilltopHouse is coming right along and is truly an amazing space. I was just looking back through my notes ...