DOVETAIL
Pen study of a church front, from Austin’s student portfolio
The studio

Tailored,
not templated.

A house should fit the way a good coat fits: cut for one person, measured with care, better with every year it’s lived in.

We begin with you: who gathers at your table, where the morning finds you, what you want to come home to. Then we draw a house around it, by hand, from the first sketch to the last detail of trim.

Austin Bewley
Founder

Austin J. Bewley

Austin studied architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio, then spent a year at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding learning traditional joinery by hand. He leads every Dovetail house himself.

Mallet and chisel beside a row of hand-cut dovetail joints

A dovetail holds because of how well it is cut, not what holds it together.

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Begin your house.