About Natural Home Design


WHO ARE WE?    Rob Austin-Murphy is the founding member of NATURAL HOME DESIGN who after years of practicing architecture and interior design in a traditional way sensed a growing personal need to re-examine his practice. This has led to the formation of NATURAL HOME DESIGN with the intention to develop a holistic and collaborative approach to the design and creation of the spaces that we live and work in. We work with other designers, artists, craftspeople, builders, and artisans to achieve your project goals. We rely on our extensive design backgrounds to focus our approach but we always invite nature to inspire us and guide us on each project.

ROB AUSTIN-MURPHY holds a BA degree in art and history from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Colorado. He has been licensed as an architect by the State of Colorado since 1984. He has had professional design practices in Denver, Seattle, and Bellingham, WA. Since moving to Bellingham, WA he has taught design courses through the community education program at Whatcom Community College. He lives on a small organic farm in Bellingham where he communes with nature and practices sustainable living.

OUR PASSION.     To explore what it means to 'live naturally and responsibly in the world'? This is the question that we as designers and fellow travelers on this planet ask ourselves each day and the question that we address in each and every design. We fully understand the challenge of this question and know that this requires an ongoing exploration of what it means to be human and what it is to live naturally in the world? We also acknowledge that there are potentially as many answers to this question as there are people to ask the question. This truly excites and inspires us!

GIVE US A CALL We would love to collaborate with you on the design and implementation of your next project.