Build it withConfidence
Bring your next home project to life with a partner beside you. Design it, plan it, and build it together from the first spark of an idea to the last spot of paint.
Your vision.A shared effort.
Truly beautiful architecture comes from the human heart.
The spaces we inhabit shape the lives we live. The lives we live shape the spaces we inhabit. A place can invite us to gather within the warmth of loved ones, provide us room to create, offer refuge from the business of the outside world, or watch it from afar. Good design begins with understanding these needs, the desires and values that spring from them, and the hope of bringing them to fruition.
This is why, at Jake & Me, we start with you and your vision. Your ideas, your desires, and your understanding of what makes life feel full are the seed of your project. Our customer-centered design, planning, and building processes are the water and nutrients to bring it to life.
The result is more than a finished project. It's a space shaped by the life you live within it.
What Jake & Me brings
How We Bring Ideas to Life
Every project brings its own opportunities, possibilities, and challenges. While the exact road map will be different for each project, the following 3 pieces are always present:
Principles
Good design begins with understanding the people and their activities which a space is meant to serve. We look at how you live, what you value, and pair these with principles from our own experience and the writings of other design and building experts in order to clear the path to a properly balanced final product.
Guidance
We help you explore possibilities, develop your design, and think through materials, costs, construction methods, and the thousand and one other choices that come up during the course of a project. These choices don’t always have obvious answers, and it’s easy to get lost in the noise. Together, we turn early ideas into a plan you can move forward with.
Tools
We share our experience, work through challenges alongside you, and put our hands to the work.
Spaces Made for Living
Explore the spaces that have taken shape through
intentional design and shared effort.
More than a finished project
Every time you catch a chance to pause with your partner and a cup of coffee on a crisp autumn morning, or make drinks, laughing with your friends and family as the warm summer afternoon turns into evening, you’ll know that you’re doing it in a place that you designed and built with your own mind and hands. You’ll feel the sun on your face, the wind through your hair, and your body will tell you it worked at the end of the day, while you look with gladness on the fruits of your labor.
Our Founder
Meet Jacob Marsnik
I believe the best places emerge naturally from the lives of the people inhabiting and using them. The more meaningful the involvement of the users in the designing and building process, the better.
I started Jake & Me in order to work alongside people who have ideas for their homes but want a partner to help them navigate the world of construction in order to bring those ideas to life. No project is too simple or too complex.
This is about more than getting your project done. It's about entering into a relationship with a fellow human being and creating something thoughtful and beautiful through it. This is how spaces, which serve life, are created.
Blog
Field Notes
Reflections on design, architecture, construction, relationships, and more.
What would you like to build?
You don't need all the answers to begin. Bring your imaginings, or your half-finished project, or anything else, and let’s discover what we can make of it, together.
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