Every home begins with the land—its light, its breeze, its contours. Our site-led home design brings architecture, interiors, and landscape together, so rooms open naturally to gardens, and living spaces flow into vistas.
Homes should evolve with you as life unfolds, shaped by your unique style and designed to support every stage of life. Our design approach captures they way you experience quiet mornings and joyful gatherings, and everything in between.
Meet Our Leadership
Creative Director
Melanie Freeland
Melanie brings an infectious love for creativity and place to every home. With an artist’s sensitivity and an architect’s precision, she creates spaces that are joyful, grounded, and uniquely personal.
Creative Director
Sebastian Salvadó
Sebastian Salvadó creates homes where culture and landscape shape how we live and feel. Drawing from Latin American traditions, he transforms humble materials into warm, contemporary spaces inspired by California’s indoor-outdoor lifestyle.
Where Our Homes Are Seen
Featured in Architectural Digest, Dezeen, ELLE Decor, The Local Project, and The Wall Street Journal, RIOS approaches each home as a dialogue between land and life. Using architecture and landscape architecture, we explore natural systems, local materials, and lived patterns to shape surroundings that are adaptable and animated. Named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Residential Architects, our work reflects a commitment to designing homes that are personal and timeless.
Explore Our Recent Residential Work
Lantern House
This award-winning home transforms everyday living into something extraordinary. Inspired by the rustic simplicity of a wooden barn, its weathered exterior creates a grounded yet luminous presence.
Lakeside Retreat
This family getaway brings generations together, creating a lakeside haven where the spirit of exploration meets the natural beauty of its surroundings.
Hilltop Terrace
Perched atop Trousdale Estates, this Beverly Hills residence epitomizes California living with seamless indoor-to-outdoor spaces that frame breathtaking canyon-to-city vistas.
Santa Monica House
This quiet retreat supports a wellness-focused family life. Architecture frames nature and daily living flows in dialogue with the landscape.
Reimagining Modern Living
Our renovation residential work honors the past of each site, building on its story to introduce new style with transformed spaces, materials, and connections. We adapt homes for new chapters to come.
Flexibility and longevity are core to our ethos. Whether restoring historic residences or refining mid-century modern homes, we enhance comfort and usability for clients seeking a dramatic transformation.
See our home renovations.
Bring the Inspiration Home
Hillside retreats and coastal sanctuaries alike reveal the many ways home can feel personal, grounded, and inspiring.
Our book of residences invites you to imagine the possibilities for yourself.
A Glimpse Into New Homes
From a lakeside compound rooted in family traditions of gathering, to a gallery-like residence in the sky, to a garden retreat animated by water, each home reflects a distinct connection to place and lifestyle. Stay tuned as we share more.