Bultman Architecture Inc.

Michelle, a native Floridian, has designed and led innovative projects in California as well as up and down the East Coast from Nantucket to the Cayman Islands. After receiving both her Architect and Interior Design licenses at age 26, she launched her eponymous firm in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1999. To date, she has earned commissions across a range of construction and renovation projects including coastal homes and compounds, mixed-use marina and commercial projects, and boutique hotels and restaurants. While specializing in high-end residential design that organically blends the interior architecture with that of the exterior, she also gracefully translates her small scale, intimate design sensibilities to large scale commercial projects, neighborhood, and town planning as well as historic preservation by carefully focusing the design of each individual space on the individual end-user. When she can find a spare moment, Michelle enjoys volunteering for a variety of local organizations which support graduating high school seniors with four-year merit and need-based college scholarships. Along with her husband and their five children, she enjoys traveling and spending as much time outdoors as possible. Architecture in its most elegant state reaches beyond the structure to subtly and gracefully affect the surrounding landscape. Defined space should not be confined within the physical boundaries of the structure. I view the exterior space as equally important and vibrant as the interior and those projects that embrace this idea are always the most successful. My personal taste favors a more minimal and uncluttered style of architecture. I believe that minimal design requires details to become critically important; they must therefore be carefully articulated and delineated throughout the ideation, sketching, and drafting processes. At the same time, I feel that great spaces can exist within any architectural style no matter the details or the scale of the project. To make great spaces, design ultimately must be transparent. The design must allow the space within to come to the forefront.