Design + Build · Saint Simons Island, Georgia

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Building, landscape, and interior design under one roof.

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Where Inside Becomes Outside

One design across every surface

Folding glass walls, native coastal plantings stepping up to the threshold, materials that belong to the land. The boundary between home and landscape dissolves because one mind drew the whole picture, from the soil to the sconces.

William Phinizy Spalding

William Phinizy Spalding

A design practice rooted in the coast, trained across landscape, building, and the interior.

MLA

University of Georgia

Master of Landscape Architecture

B.EnvD

University of Colorado

Bachelor of Environmental Design

Who I Work With

Three kinds of clients, one practice

A home that feels right because it is

Your home should support the way you actually want to live: the air you breathe, the materials you touch, the landscape you walk through. I design across building, landscape, and interiors so every decision works together, not against you.

Full Home Design

Building, landscape, and interiors conceived as one. Site planning, spatial layout, material specification, planting design, a complete vision from the ground up.

Home Consultation

A two-hour on-site assessment of your home's light, air, materials, ventilation, and landscape. You walk away with a clear picture of what is working and what is not.

Wellness Spaces

Home gyms, saunas, cold plunges, meditation rooms, zen gardens, greenhouse rooms, natural pools. Spaces designed for how you actually want to live and recover.

Native Landscape Design

Coastal Georgia plantings that belong to their place. Spartina, live oaks, muhly grass, saw palmetto. No pesticide lawns, no fighting the land. Less maintenance, more life.

Design that sells the vision

You see the numbers, the lot, the opportunity. I make the vision tangible with renderings that close deals, site plans that satisfy planners, and design packages that move projects from paper to permit.

Concept Renderings

Photorealistic 3D visuals and hand-rendered sketches that show investors and buyers what is coming. Your site, your project, your vision brought to life before ground is broken.

Site Planning & Feasibility

Lot analysis, zoning research, setback studies, and conceptual site layouts. I help you understand what the land can hold before you commit capital.

Design Packages for Permitting

Coordinated building, landscape, and site plans formatted for county submission. Designed to move through review, not stall in it.

Landscape Master Plans

Community-scale planting plans, amenity layouts, and streetscape design. Native species, coastal resilience, low maintenance, the kind of landscape that adds value without adding overhead.

Design packages your crew can build from

You build it. I draw it. When your clients want more than a floor plan on a napkin, I provide the design documentation so your team can execute with confidence: plans, elevations, material specs, landscape drawings.

Construction Design Drawings

Floor plans, elevations, sections, and details drawn to communicate clearly to your crew. Builder-ready documents, plain and clear.

Material & Finish Specifications

Complete material schedules, finish selections, and product sourcing. Your clients get design-grade selections without you spending hours in showrooms.

Landscape & Hardscape Plans

Planting plans, grading, irrigation layouts, and hardscape details your landscape sub can install directly from. Specified for coastal Georgia conditions.

Client Presentations

3D renderings and design boards that help your clients see the finished product before you break ground. Close the job with visuals, not just estimates.

Services

What integrated design looks like

Every project is different, but the way I work stays the same. Across disciplines, from the first walk of the land to the final material specification, one practice, one set of eyes.

01

Building Design

Conceptual design, site planning, and spatial strategy that prioritizes natural light, airflow, and material health. From hand-rendered plans to 3D models, I help you see the home before it is built or remodeled, and make sure it is built to breathe.

02

Landscape Design

Native coastal plantings, grading, hardscape, and sustainable site strategies. No synthetic fertilizers, no invasive species, no fighting the land. Landscapes that belong to their place and support the life around them.

03

Interior Design

Space planning, material specification, and interiors that connect to the landscape outside. Non-toxic finishes, natural materials, sight lines to nature. Rooms that feel calm because they actually are.

04

Project Coordination

Your design liaison, coordinating between licensed professionals, contractors, and specialists to keep the design vision intact from concept through construction. One point of contact, no compromises.

Specialty · Wellness Design

Spaces that do more than shelter you

Beyond the integrated design practice, a layer most designers never think to offer. Spaces that actively support how you live, move, rest, and recover.

Home Gyms

Purpose-built training spaces with natural ventilation, rubber or cork flooring, full-wall mirrors, and equipment layouts that actually work. Not a spare bedroom with a Peloton.

Outdoor Kitchens & Edible Gardens

Full cooking spaces built into the landscape with stone counters, wood-fired ovens, and covered dining areas, surrounded by raised beds growing herbs, vegetables, and edibles steps from where you cook.

Contrast Therapy

Cedar-lined saunas, outdoor cold plunge pools, and contrast therapy circuits. Integrated into the landscape so they feel like part of the property, not bolted on as an afterthought.

Greenhouse Rooms

Glass-walled growing spaces that double as living spaces. Year-round herbs, tropicals, and edibles in a space that floods with light and connects you to the growing cycle.

Meditation Spaces

Quiet rooms and outdoor enclosures designed for stillness. Sound-dampened walls, natural light control, grounding materials, and spatial proportions informed by contemplative traditions.

Feng Shui

Spatial arrangement guided by energy flow, balance, and intention. Zen gardens, koi ponds, furniture placement, material selection, color, and orientation all designed to support clarity throughout the home and landscape.

Yoga & Pilates Studios

Indoor and outdoor practice spaces with cork or hardwood floors, full-height glass walls that open to the garden, cross-ventilation, and enough room to actually move.

Natural Swimming Pools

Chemical-free pools that use plants and biological filtration to keep the water clean. A swimming experience that looks like a pond and feels like a lake. No chlorine, no red eyes, no fighting the environment.

Wellness Tech

Air quality monitors, circadian lighting systems, whole-house water filtration, humidity control, and smart ventilation. The invisible infrastructure that keeps your home actively working for your health.

How It Works

From conversation to completion

Every engagement follows a path. Two of them, depending on whether you are starting from raw land or rethinking what is already there.

01

Conversation

Tell me about your lot, your vision, how you want to live. No commitment.

02

Site Visit

I walk the land, study the light, feel the wind. Design starts with understanding the place.

03

Design

Building, landscape, interiors conceived together. Renderings so you see it before it exists.

04

Build

I work with the builder through construction, keeping the design vision intact from foundation to finish.

01

Assessment

I walk through your existing home, identify what is working against you, and map what can change.

02

Plan

Material swaps, ventilation upgrades, landscape redesign, spatial reconfiguration. Prioritized by impact.

03

Design

Drawings, material specs, and renderings that show you the transformation before a single wall moves.

04

Execute

I manage the renovation from demolition through final walkthrough. Your home becomes what it should have been from the start.

Why It Matters

Design is wellness

Wellness design is no longer fringe. The numbers describe what people are starting to feel in their own bodies, in their own homes, in the way modern construction quietly works against them.

70%

of homes have mold

2-5x

worse air indoors than out

$548B

wellness real estate market

20%

value premium on wellness homes

Resilience By Design

The landscape does the work

Native stone, coastal plantings, open air flowing through cedar and glass. A home that belongs to its place because it was designed from the land up, with the wind and water that shape every property on this coast.

Get in Touch

Book a consultation

Whether you are starting from scratch or rethinking what is already there, I would love to hear about your project.

Or call (762) 227-9034

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