We recently connected with Ron Elliott and have shared our conversation below.

Ron, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

Most of my career so far has been spent working on remodel and addition projects, many of those being historic homes. Even though they are all different, there are often many similar problems and solutions. Regardless of any similarities, there is always going to be this one problem with every remodel and addition and that is authorship. It is like trying to write a different ending to someone else’s book. No matter how much white out and ink I add, there are these things that I am trying to work around. These limitations and constraints help to define and shape a project, but they also never allow for the type of creative freedom that a new construction project will provide. Pair that with client’s who fully believe in and trust me throughout the process, and something really special can be created. These projects are the most meaningful for me. There is a new build project that was completed recently called The Container House that I was given a lot of trust and freedom on and I am very proud of the work.

Ron, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

To start, I grew up here in Phoenix and always wanted to be an architect. I went to college at ASU, worked at a few local studios, and then started working for myself. I design mostly residential projects, but have worked on more than a few small commercial spaces too. I like to get to know my clients and find out who they are, to create a space specifically for them, and I am quite used to my clients being happily surprised by the results. People normally start trying to figure these things out for themselves, and will even go as far as trying to show me sketches of layouts that they have created, but I try to stay away from that. I want to talk with them about their ideas, but even more so their values. If I can understand who they are, then I understand the guidelines to creating a space that is truly suited to them.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I want to create thoughtful and meaningful spaces. I would like each and every project to be contextual to it’s specific site and place, to be functional and beautiful for it’s inhabitants, to be responsive to it’s environment, and most of all honest.

Where do you think you get most of your clients from?

Referrals are great, but social media has been even better. I love it when someone recommends me, because it means that they were really happy with the process and the results if they were a past client, or that they have just seen some of my work and really liked it. The problem with referrals though, is that this other person has possibly never seen my work before and may not know the type of work that I do. Where as on social media, someone can scroll through all of the images and see all of the types of projects I have done and get a feeling for what it is that I do. I love meeting with a new client and they start telling me about the different things that they liked about each project they saw. This tells me right away that it is going to be a good fit for both of us.

Contact Info:

• Website: ronelliottstudio.com
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