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Designing homes with
vision, structure, and purpose.

New construction, renovation and complete interiors — from the first idea to the last detail.

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Specialists in high-end home design.

Boston New England
About the Studio

We design more than homes.
We design the entire experience.

Some projects begin with an empty lot, where every proportion is decided from zero. Most begin with a house that already has a life — a row house, a three-decker, a cape added onto four times over. We open those up and give them the plan they should have had.

i

New, from zero

Building new is the one chance to get all of it right at once — proportion, light, flow, material. Nothing worked around.

ii

Old, made new

A house that has stood a hundred years has good bones and bad decisions. We keep the first and undo the second.

iii

One studio, all the way

Plan, elevation, interior and structure decided at the same table — and held to the day you move in.

What We Do

Everything a new house needs.
One studio.

01

Design

  • Custom home design, from the empty lot
  • Small residential developments & multi-family
  • Site & space planning, floor plan development
  • Kitchen & bathroom design
  • Material selections & finish specifications
  • Lighting design & furniture planning
  • Luxury interior styling & home staging
  • Short-term rental & Airbnb design
02

Making It Real

  • Land, buildability & zoning review
  • Residential structural design — framing & load paths
  • Permit sets & complete construction documents
  • Budget development & cost estimating
  • Scheduling, trade coordination & site walks
  • Owner representation through to final walkthrough
Selected Work

New homes. And old ones made new.

Ground-up construction across Boston — and full remodels of the historic houses that give the city its character.

Why Melo Design

We are not handing a beautiful drawing to someone else and hoping. We draw it, we detail it, and we stay until you are standing in it.

Bruna Melo & Moises Mendes · Founders
How We Work

From empty lot to move-in day.

01

The Conversation

Before a single line is drawn — how you live, how you host, what your mornings should feel like.

02

Design

Plan, elevation and interior developed together, until the light and the proportion are right.

03

Documentation

Permit set, structural design and drawings complete enough to build the house exactly as designed.

04

Construction

Trades, schedule and site walks — with us there, protecting the design, until you move in.

The Difference

One team.
The whole project.

The difference clients feel from the very first meeting.

  • 01

    We start with the light

    Where the sun lands in October decides the plan. Not the other way around.

  • 02

    Nothing is a compromise

    Building new means no inherited walls, no working around, no "it was already like that".

  • 03

    Materials chosen, not specified

    Every finish selected by the person who designed the room it lives in.

  • 04

    Structure that serves the design

    Engineering done in-house, so the span you want is the span you get.

  • 05

    One studio, all the way

    The people who drew it are the people on site. You never explain yourself twice.

The Founders

Built by two people
who love what they do.

Melo Design is a partnership of two disciplines — and a labor of love. Bruna shaping the vision, Moises carrying forward a family legacy of engineering.

Bruna Melo

Creative Director · Design & Interiors

Bruna is the creative heart of the studio. She shapes the design vision — space planning, interior layouts, materials, and the residential identity of every project — bringing warmth, intention, and a refined eye to each home.

Moises Mendes

Structural Engineering · Project Leadership

Engineering runs in Moises's blood — he comes from a whole generation of engineers. He carries that legacy into every project: wood structural design, pre-construction strategy, coordination, and on-site leadership.

The Melo Journal

Stories from the studio.

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The Melo Journal

Stories in design,
structure & craft.

Notes from the studio — the projects, the process, and the people behind them.

Issue No. 04Greater BostonUpdated Monthly
Featured · Projects

Inside the lakefront residence: building where land meets water.

How a single team carried one waterfront custom home from feasibility study to final walkthrough — coordinating structural engineering, interior selections, and the build without a single hand-off.

Read the story

Every home we touch carries that heart — design and engineering cared for by the people who love them most.

Bruna Melo & Moises Mendes · Founders
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