Custom homes, considered to the last detail.
D’Ascanio Mellor Architecture is the residential practice of Julie D’Ascanio — new homes, additions, and renovations carried from first sketch through construction across Maryland, Virginia, and Colorado.
Selected Work
Houses, additions, and the details inside them.
New Residence
Gibson Island Residence
A five-bedroom home for a family summering on the Chesapeake. A steeply sloped, wooded lot turned into Bay views above and a quiet street presence below.
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Interior Details
Annapolis Residence
Bespoke interior elements for a French Gothic home in hand-chiselled stone — a dragon newel post cast from sculpted clay, and two custom plaster fireplaces.
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Renovation & Addition
Boulder Residence
An existing house reworked into a Southwest rancher — a rear addition opening the kitchen, dining, and living into one space, with a new master suite for entertaining.
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Guest House
Leesburg Guest House
A small, single-storey home for aging parents and visiting guests — fully accessible, with an open kitchen and living plan tucked into heavy woods.
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One architect, from first sketch to final walk-through.
Julie D’Ascanio designs custom homes, additions, and renovations — and stays with each one from the first conversation through construction. As project manager and principal architect she develops the design alongside the owners, then sees it built: coordinating civil and structural engineers, county approvals, and trades, and managing the finish work down to hands-on construction where it counts.
The work is site-led and quietly traditional — a sloped Chesapeake lot that keeps its trees, an accessible single-storey home that reads as a cottage, a French Gothic stair with a dragon cast into its newel post. Each house answers to how its owners actually live, and to the ground it stands on.
- Practice
- Residential architecture — new homes, additions, renovations, interiors
- Approach
- Owner-led design carried through construction management
- Coordination
- Civil & structural engineers, county approvals, trades
- Regions
- Maryland · Virginia · Colorado
Contact
Let’s talk about your house.
New build, addition, or renovation — tell me about the project and the place it belongs to.