Residential Design · Charleston, SC
We Take Ideas and Craft Them Into a Beautiful Reality
BROTHERS RICH is a residential design studio led by Paul Eric Rich. New homes, additions, renovations and exterior redesigns across the Lowcountry.
Where to start
Know what your property can do before a single line is drawn.
Most people call a design studio after they've already hit a snag: a code or zoning ordinance they weren't aware of, a site that can't fit the floor plan they had in mind, a tree that stopped the whole project cold.
BROTHERS RICH is built to be the call before that happens. In the industry it's called pre-design: the questions that decide what's possible on your property, answered in the first conversation, not the third.
The 50% Rule
Renovating in a flood zone? Your home's current value sets how much you can do before the whole house must meet today's flood rules.
Read more →02Building Area Ratio
Understand how much house your lot can actually hold before you fall for a floor plan.
Read more →03Flood Zones
Understand how your flood elevation shapes the foundation, the entry and the budget.
Read more →04Tree Removal
Better understand the challenges you may face designing around the existing trees on your property.
Read more →Current work
Projects
Carib Alley
A house designed for its peninsula site from the floor plan out, with views from every room.
Island Drive
A garage and shop for the owners' hobbies, in the mid-century style of the main house.
Butler Residence
A five-bedroom coastal contemporary house of about 3,500 square feet in Old Mount Pleasant.
Sheepshead Lane
A pool gazebo designed to replace a premanufactured unit, with more character, warmth, shelter and privacy.
Sols Edge
A house on a beautiful water's-edge lot, with a minimal presence: not loud, not busy, just right.
Maine House
A single-story house in Maine, with a separate garage and an ADU above it.
Our philosophy
Live a Rich Life.
Our name carries an idea older than the practice itself: live a rich life, shaped around what actually matters to you. At BROTHERS RICH, that means learning what the lot meant to you, how the family really gathers, whether it's the kitchen or the fireplace that matters most, then building the house around those answers, not the other way around. The result is a home that feels inevitable, like it was always meant to be yours.