"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us." ~ Winston Churchill
Imagine yourself in a home where the grandeur of a black-tie evening transitions seamlessly into the quiet, unhurried ease of a Sunday morning. Whether you're hosting family or friends for the weekend or resting after a long workweek, the right home knows how to serve you.
It isn't just a building with four walls that you inhabit; it is a living, breathing extension of who you are.
Architectural Design: Angela Healy, Boggs & Partners Architects
Testimonials
Flexibility and quick response time
"...Angela's flexibility and communication, as well as her drive to problem-solve toward our vision, while staying within our budget, is outstanding. While our project is still in progress, we really appreciate her availability, quick response time, positive attitude, and ability to keep things moving on schedule. We are happy."
Chuck and Andrea Mandfredonia
Elevated natural environment
"Three years after the renovation, our house continues to excite me as I approach it on the driveway, walk inside, and live within it. Angela and her team greatly enhanced the views of the natural environment in which the house sits. Our home is sophisticated, yet remarkably comfortable, whether we are there by ourselves or when hosting large gatherings of family and friends. The design has greatly enhanced our quality of lives."
Because we owned our house for five years before we began working with Angela, my husband and I had time to formulate ideas about how our renovated house would look. We asked Angela to challenge us, pushing us beyond what we envisioned, and she delivered! The addition of intersecting gables and beautifully designed, critically located window configurations enhanced the natural light entering the home, which enlivens the space.
Angela is simply a competent, fun, and comfortable person to work with on architectural and design projects. She was responsive during the construction phase when response time was sometimes critical and held fast to the quality of the design when unforeseen site conditions proved challenging.
My husband and I wanted an architect who treated each project as a unique undertaking, not with a cookie-cutter approach. The variety of style and detail shown in the completed work by Angela and her team is inspiring and was the determining factor in our selection."
Kate Lytle
More than 25 years of design accumen
I had the good fortune of working with Angela more than twenty-five years ago, when she was a young architect at Boggs & Partners in Annapolis, and I was relocating from New England with my family for what was supposed to be a year. We had an interesting start, as we first met in the 1950s kitchen of a house we had no long-term plan to keep the day Hurricane Floyd was gathering force in the Bay. Within 24 hours of that chat about house “updates” with Angela and Joe Boggs, her firm’s principal, a microburst had felled most of the large trees around the house, one of which managed to crush both the roof and the septic. I remember leaving a message that I was going to need architectural help sooner than expected, and the project was likely a lot bigger. I also remember receiving tempered advice to repair the damage, live in the house, take notes, and stay in touch. After heeding all of that, as well as following the instructions to put the new septic well away from the existing foundation, we moved.
Angela became a big part of the ensuing busy year, as Annapolis worked its significant charm, plans to leave faded, and the project scope expanded. Maybe we should have just found another house, but by then we were happily settled in our neighborhood, so I started combing stacks of HOME and AD magazines. From piles of clippings, scribbled notes, and design meetings in the quaint era before Pinterest, Instagram, and shared documents, Angela helped distill a host of ideas and inputs into drawings for the shingle style home we loved for many years. It was a project complicated by an existing footprint and good intentions to save most of the original structure. Through all of the pivots, Angela’s through lines became clear: she listened with intent, elevated concepts, and advanced “wish list” items. I love old houses and I remember saying I wanted to build something that would be here in 200 years. Eventually rebuilt from the ground up, the resulting home just may do it. It has an old feel, with belled siding, individual rooms, and wonderful flow. In an era of open concept everything and two story foyers, the team designed something with classic woodwork, bookshelves, wide hallways, window seats, porches, and a pantry. It was a privilege to build and a pleasure to live in.
Though our design journey was anything but linear, Angela’s involvement helped bring a great project to fruition, and I always felt like part of the process in a wonderful way. Angela’s deft client touch accompanies keen intelligence, and clear design acumen. Her calm nature, genuine warmth, and good sense of humor are added bonuses. I’ve followed Angela’s career with interest, and I look forward to watching this next chapter unfold.
Lynne McDonald
Architectural Design: Angela Healy, Boggs & Partners Architects Photography: Michele Sheiko
Thirty Years of Wisdom: Meet Angela Healy.
While ASTA represents a fresh chapter, the expertise guiding it is deeply seasoned. Our firm is led by Angela Healy, an architect with over 30 years of design experience. With roots in Panama and a long-established presence in Annapolis, Angela is building a high-performance culture comprised of experts who are the best at their game.
Under her leadership, our team pulls from the academic rigor of 3,000 years of architectural history while remaining unafraid to try what has never been done before. We combine the intellectual depth of a historian with the sophisticated eye of a creator to ensure your space holds its value—both financial and emotional—for generations.
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