Root Down Designs is a dedicated team of women, working to bring peace-of-mind to our clients during an often mentally strenuous process. We work together with our affiliates and local contractors throughout the design + building process to achieve a holistic end product. We take pride in knowing that our designs not only look & function beautifully, but the inner-workings behind them ran smoothly.

Over the past 13 years April has worked for three of Charleston’s architectural firms, became a licensed architect & project manager, and in 2011 embarked on her own by starting Root Down Designs.

Recognizing that an architect can not exist only in the world of theory, she began to explore materials, with her hands. As she continued to experiment with building materials in the Carolinas, she also began to travel the world in search of ancient earthen building techniques still in use today and learn the principles of permaculture.