The art ofbringing the outsidein.
Floor plan reviews, architect-led. Light, flow, and landscape resolved on paper — not after framing.
About Linda
A home should feel inevitable, like it could never have been another way. That conviction is what first pulled me toward floor plans, when I learned how quietly a few lines on paper decide where light lands, how people move, and how a building meets its land.
Before walls go up, I work through the things most people only notice when they’re wrong: the viewshed, the circulation, the storage, and the threshold moments where inside meets out. Getting those right on paper keeps a finished home from feeling like a series of compromises. It’s what lets the house feel, once you live in it, like the only house it could have been.
Experience
- Bachelor of Science in Design, University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
- 40+ years in practice, residential and commercial
- Projects across private houses, museums, theaters, country clubs, churches, schools, and multi-purpose centers
- Integrated landscape design on every project
- Founder of Boyden Design LLC, est. 2011
Sometimes a plan
doesn’t feel right.
Other times you know something’s wrong but can’t name it. Or the plan reads fine, and you want one more set of eyes before the biggest investment of your life goes vertical. Three stand-alone services, architect-led, on Zoom. An eraser beats a sledgehammer every time.