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Garret Cord Werner is a full-service architecture and interior design firm, founded in 1996 and based in Seattle. Architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture develop side by side from the first sketch, so the home reads as one continuous body of work. Sustainable and climate-resilient strategies are integrated into the same process. Custom furniture, lighting, and hand-woven rugs complete each home with continuity from envelope to interior.
The pages below introduce each discipline. Each links to a deeper page where philosophy, strategies, and representative work are covered in more detail.
Each home begins with the land, its light, slope, and silence, and unfolds through a process that brings clarity to complexity. Whether selecting a lot or redesigning an existing structure, the journey moves deliberately from broad vision to fine detail: programming, schematic development, construction drawings, and close involvement through the build. Time and budget are treated with the same care as material and proportion. The result is more than a house. It is a lived experience shaped by rhythm, restraint, and resonance.
Interior design completes the architectural story, giving form to feeling and depth to function. Through layered palettes, considered materials, and bespoke furnishings, each interior becomes a spatial narrative. The process includes mood boards, immersive site visits, and selections that balance personal taste with spatial rhythm. Lighting, art, and texture are chosen with restraint and care so that every room feels resolved and the entire home reflects a lived identity with quiet confidence.
Architecture must engage the site that holds it. Gardens, hardscape, water features, and outdoor living spaces are designed in concert with the building so that thresholds soften and the landscape feels like an extension of the home. Native plantings, considered grading, and integrated drainage work with the regional climate rather than against it.
Sustainability is woven into the work from the beginning rather than added at the end. Orientation, envelope detailing, healthy materials, energy and water efficiency, and longevity all develop together as part of the design. Clients pursuing LEED for Homes certification can be guided through the process. Many clients design to those principles without pursuing formal certification.
Resilient detailing protects people, possessions, and the architecture itself across longer fire seasons, smoke events, seismic conditions, and extreme weather. Site planning, fire-resistant assemblies, glazing for risk zones, and integrated systems for water storage, backup power, and air quality are calibrated to the specific risks of each site.
Our studio is based in Seattle, and we work across the greater Puget Sound region, the Pacific Northwest, California, and beyond.
Yes, in many cases. Interior design, lighting design, or landscape architecture can be engaged on their own when the project supports it. The most coherent results come from engaging the full integrated process, but we work at the scope that fits the project.
Yes. Our studio is based in Seattle and we have completed projects in various locations, with primary focus areas in the Pacific Northwest and along the West Coast. We discuss geographic fit during early conversations.
Garret Cord Werner is a full-service architecture and interior design firm founded in 1996, with deep roots in Pacific Northwest construction and a long history of integrating architecture, interiors, and landscape into a single vision. Our studio designs and produces custom furnishings, lighting, and hand-woven rugs to complete each home with continuity from envelope to interior. If you are exploring a new home, a remodel, or a project that asks for the kind of integration our studio is built around, we would welcome a conversation.
