CUSTOM HOME DESIGN THAT SUPPORTS YOUR Joy Life Land Wellbeing Views Health Creativity
Luxury Home Design
Crafted for You & Your Land
Pippin Home Designs is an award-winning residential design firm in Lake Norman, North Carolina. With over 40 years of experience, our firm specializes in crafting luxury custom home designs that elevate both lives and landscapes. While we’re deeply rooted in North Carolina—designing homes from Charlotte’s iconic neighborhoods, to the scenic shores of Lake Norman, and from the mountain towns of Boone, Blowing Rock, and Banner Elk to the coastal beauty of the Outer Banks—we also proudly serve clients nationwide. Our designs reflect the character of each setting, no matter where your dream home is located.
Our expertise includes:
- Capturing breathtaking views for waterfront & mountainside properties
- Enhancing natural light while minimizing heat gain
- Designing for challenging sites & optimizing land use
- Green, biophilic, & accessible design
- Wellness-focused spaces for healthier living
- Creating homes that feel as good as they look
OUR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Fully Supportive Homes
Harmonizing with Nature
Your land has a voice that called to you and now seeks to be shaped in resonance with its unique essence and your vision. By attuning ourselves to the land, we craft homes that feel as though they organically emerge from the landscape—like they’re truly meant to be there. Our designs embrace sustainable principles, drawing inspiration from organic forms, natural materials, and the surrounding environment. Interiors foster a connection to the outdoors through natural light, ventilation, and truly epic views.
Focus on Feeling
A home is more than walls and a roof; it’s an experience— a feeling that touches every part of your being. It’s the warmth of sunlight streaming through the windows, the way the spaces invite you to relax and be yourself, and the quiet reassurance of being surrounded by what matters most. A well-designed home fosters connection with the land, with loved ones, and with the rhythm of daily life. Every room, every corner, carries an energy that resonates with a deep-rooted feeling that you are exactly where you’re meant to be.
Enduring Design
More than a structure, your home is an heirloom — crafted to endure, adapt, and enrich every chapter of life, regardless of changes in age, ability, or season of life. By blending timeless aesthetics with practical, accessible features, we create spaces that evolve with you and your family’s needs, creating a legacy of lasting comfort and joy for generations to come.
Authentic Individuality
We champion radical expression of your unique life and lifestyle, while simultaneously embracing the practicalities of everyday life. We believe your home can be a source of inspiration and a supportive environment for daily tasks and responsibilities. By artfully blending your vision for life with functional design elements rooted in sustainability, efficiency, and timeless beauty, we create spaces that inspire you every day, while seamlessly supporting the nuances of your life.
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HOW IT WORKS
OVERVIEW OF OUR DESIGN SERVICES:
GETTING TO KNOW YOU
In order to design a home that will truly be supportive of your unique life, we first need to get to know you, your family, the people you will share your home with, and everything that’s important to you. This begins in our very first phone call and is supported by our in-depth design questionnaire, followed up by a 2-hour initial consultation with Jenny in which she listens to your story and tunes into the specific needs of your intended spaces.
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR LAND – SITE ASSESSMENT
Jenny has a sixth sense for reading the language of the land. During an in-person visit of your property, Jenny learns how the land wants to be built upon, the natural features to be enhanced, the location and direction of best views, the path of the sun across the property, sunny/shady/windy areas, the existing trees to be saved, and any special natural features noted.
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
Jenny hand draws sketches of the preliminary design concepts, including sketches of the initial floor plans, exterior elevations, and a site plan concept. This is an organic and creative discovery process in which she intuits and interprets potential design solutions for your home unbound by the confines of a computer program.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
Preliminary design concepts are entered into CAD and the details are fine-tuned to create a more comprehensive set of design drawings. These CAD drawings include floor plans, exterior elevations with 3D perspective views, a roof plan, and a site plan.
CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS
Based on the final approved design development drawings, we create detailed construction drawings that provide coherence among your entire build team. Collaboration with your chosen team during this final stage is the most supportive way to fill out all remaining details.
JENNY PIPPIN'S
Story
FROM TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH.
Jenny Pippin, our fearless founder and lead residential designer, built her career on the belief that great design should enhance lives. Driven by a visionary spirit and a relentless pursuit of better ways to live, she has become an award-winning designer dedicated to pushing the boundaries of home design.
In her early twenties, Jenny faced a near-fatal accident that left her temporarily disabled. During recovery, she found herself in a home that was anything but healing. Though it boasted natural light and a passive solar design, it quickly became an unbearable environment—hot in summer, poorly laid out, and completely inaccessible.
That experience changed everything. It opened her eyes to the real impact of home design on daily living and well-being – revealing the critical flaws in conventional home design. This sparked Jenny’s lifelong passion for creating spaces that are functional, sustainable, and life-enhancing.
Today, as a highly respected Lake Norman home designer, Jenny brings empathy, innovation, and over 40 years of experience to every project. Her designs are rooted in real-world understanding—crafted to elevate well-being, connect with the land, and adapt beautifully to each client’s unique lifestyle.
LET’S TALK!
NEED SUPPORT
Designing a home with its many nuances that will affect you, your land, and your family’s lives EVERY DAY can be challenging.
Don’t know where to start? Schedule a consultation to get the conversation started.
You’ll quickly learn our Fully Supportive Home Design process covers ALL bases, including things you and other designers would never think of.
Allow the experts at Pippin Home Designs to guide you along the path of home design, one supportive step at a time.
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"Architects and designers have a greater ability to improve public health than medical professionals." - Dr. Claudia Miller, UT
What does your land
Whisper to you?
If you’re like our best clients, your land spoke to you,
sharing a vision for your life that captivated you.
You’re searching for a designer who can bring that vision to life.
That’s where we come in.
YOU DESERVE TO BE FULLY SUPPORTED BY YOUR HOME!
Join us in creating spaces where your life can truly shine.
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