Renovation & addition design. Start with the house you have.
Mark Lynn Design prepares residential renovation and addition plans for homeowners and builders across Middle Tennessee, including Nashville, Brentwood, Franklin, Belle Meade, and Green Hills. The work connects the existing house, the changes you need, and the drawings your builder will use.
The existing house comes first.
A renovation begins with a different question from a new home: what is already working? The rooms, circulation, exterior, and relationship to the lot all belong in that conversation before the new square footage does.
Bring the address, any existing drawings or survey, photographs, and a short description of what needs to change. A better kitchen, another bedroom, or a different connection to the outdoors may call for an addition, a reworked floor plan, or both.
Drawings that connect old and new.
The Design division develops floor plans, elevations, permit sets, and construction-ready drawing packages. The scope is established around the project, from changes inside an existing footprint to a larger addition.
The conversation includes how new spaces meet existing rooms, how the exterior reads from the street, and what the builder needs to price and build the work. Where the project calls for specialist input, consultant coordination belongs in the scope from the beginning.
The rooms and the finishes belong together.
Mark Lynn Interiors can work alongside the drawing process on finishes, fixtures, lighting, cabinetry direction, tile, stone, hardware, paint, and procurement. Those decisions help turn a revised plan into rooms that feel considered.
Some clients need drawings. Others need both Design and Interiors. We establish that scope in the first conversation, with the budget and the builder in view.
A Nashville practice, since 1991.
More than 2,600 homes and over eight million square feet of residential work inform the office. That experience spans custom homes, infill, renovations, additions, and developer projects across Middle Tennessee.
For a renovation, the useful part of that history is practical: understanding how a plan works, how a home sits on its lot, and how a change on paper affects the rest of the house.
What to bring to the first meeting.
Start with the property address, the rooms or problems you want to address, your working construction budget, and your intended timing. Include a survey or existing plans if you have them, and tell us whether a builder is already involved.
We use that conversation to discuss the design scope and the next information needed. Design fees and timing depend on the work; they are discussed for your project rather than assumed from the square footage alone.