The Morrison Group

In addition to being the Dream Home’s builder, the Morrison Group is also the home’s designer. Known for designing aesthetically pleasing yet pragmatic homes, Morrison Group’s projects are timeless because of their practicality.

“An architect or a home designer will tell you, if they do it right, that everything’s there for a reason,” Sangalli says. “Our designs are a very personal thing. Every wall is there for a reason; everything is in a certain spot for a reason. Not three inches this way or three inches that way. It’s like a Jenga thing. You can’t just pull out something and the rest of it works.”

Sangalli designs 99% of the houses The Morrison Group builds, and when I label him a “perfectionist for pragmatic design,” he says, “Exactly. Everything needs to make sense to live a comfortable life.”

In many ways, Sangalli works backward. He first thinks of the end product — everything and everybody that’s going in the house. Where will the furniture go? What if there’s a party? What if there are two people trying to get through this part of the kitchen? He avoids designing or building homes with hot trends or fads with little concern with what goes where. Point being, the space should never hinder one’s ability to do what he or she wants — to live comfortably.

“I don’t want any room, whether it’s a guest bedroom or whatever, to have a door in the wrong place or for the beds not to fit,” Sangalli says.