Luxury Renovations & Custom Homes in Park Ridge
A principal-led studio for Park Ridge's brick Georgians, storybook Tudors and established family homes, where uptown character meets considered, beautifully built interiors.
Park Ridge keeps a rare balance: the ease of a real town just minutes from the city, and the settled grace of streets shaped over generations. Its homes tell that story plainly, symmetrical brick Georgians, Tudors with steep gables and leaded glass, and family houses that have been added to, lived in and loved without ever losing their character. Martire Custom Homes begins where that character begins, reading the architecture, the land and the way a family genuinely moves through its days before a single line is drawn. The aim is never to overwrite a Park Ridge home but to draw out its best self, work that feels original to the house, quietly refined and unmistakably the homeowner's own.
Renovations that respect Park Ridge's architecture
Much of what makes a Park Ridge home lovely lives in its detail, the measured rhythm of a Georgian's windows, the warmth of brick and timber on a Tudor, the way a entry hall sets the tone for everything that follows. Renovating these houses well means honouring that language while opening them to the way families actually live now: a kitchen that gathers everyone, daylight drawn deeper into the plan, primary suites and baths that read as a private retreat. As a principal-led studio, Martire carries the artistic direction from the earliest thinking through to final styling, joinery and millwork detailed to suit the period, cabinetry and lighting plans composed as a single idea, materials and finishes chosen with restraint. Nothing is bolted on; every change is meant to look as though it always belonged.
Whole-home transformations and considered additions
Many of Park Ridge's finest homes are ready for more than a single room. A thoughtful addition that respects the street, a re-imagined floor plan that finally resolves how the house flows, a whole-home transformation that brings every space into agreement, this is the work the studio is built for. Engaged early, ideally in the pre-architect or pre-construction phase, Martire can guide or create the plans, select or collaborate with your architect, and hold one coherent vision steady from structure through to drapery, textiles and art. Established neighbourhoods reward this kind of patience: the intent is not to make a home louder, but to make it more fully itself, balanced, generous and built to last.
Interiors composed around your story
Courtenay Martire's background in fashion, photography and styling shapes a distinctive approach to interiors, one that treats the homeowner as the star of the home. Drawing on more than two decades of practice and long-standing artisan partnerships, the studio layers art, materials, light and craft into rooms that feel collected rather than decorated. In Park Ridge, that might mean tailoring a kitchen and bath to a home's classic proportions, dressing windows in bespoke drapery, or commissioning custom cabinetry and millwork that gives a room its quiet authority. Whether interiors complete a larger renovation or stand on their own, the intent holds: spaces that carry your soul print and grow more right with every year you live in them.
A studio suited to homes of this calibre.
- Principal-led from first conversation to final styling, Courtenay Martire personally directs the artistic vision rather than handing it off
- Fluent in Park Ridge's housing stock, renovating brick Georgians, Tudors and established family homes with period-sensitive joinery, millwork and finishes
- Best engaged early, in the pre-architect or pre-construction phase, to guide or create plans and select or work alongside the architect
- Built for ambitious, design-led work, whole-home renovations, additions, custom homes and architectural interiors rather than one-off rooms
- A design and fashion sensibility that makes the homeowner the star of the home, backed by 23+ years and trusted artisan partnerships
Good to know.
Do you renovate classic brick Georgians and Tudors in Park Ridge?
Yes, these are exactly the homes the studio is most drawn to. We renovate them with respect for their proportions and detail, from period-sensitive millwork and cabinetry to lighting, materials and interiors, so the finished work reads as original to the house rather than added on.
When is the best time to bring Martire into a Park Ridge project?
As early as possible, ideally in the pre-architect or pre-construction phase. Engaged early, we can guide or create the plans, select or collaborate with your architect, and carry one coherent artistic direction through construction, finishes and styling.
What kinds of projects are the right fit?
Design-led luxury renovations, additions, whole-home transformations, custom homes and full architectural interiors. The studio is built for substantial, trust-based work rather than one-off bathrooms or self-managed builds, so the vision can be held to a high standard from start to finish.
If your Park Ridge home is ready for its next chapter, we would love to begin the conversation.