Contemporary lake house living room overlooking the water

Petoskey · Northern Michigan

Spaces worth
coming north for.

Architectural design, interiors, and real-time visualization for homes and destination-driven developments.

Independent design practice Homes · Hospitality · Development
Residential design✦Hospitality✦Development concepts✦Real-time design✦Petoskey, Michigan✦

Northern Michigan isn’t a look. It’s a way of living.

The best spaces here understand the view, the weather, the welcome, and what happens when the whole family arrives. Makyle brings big-project design thinking home to Petoskey—then makes every decision visible before construction begins.

12+years across architecture and interiors
3Dfrom the first meaningful conversation
1:1direct collaboration with your designer

For homeowners

Make the big decisions before they become expensive ones.

Shape the plan, atmosphere, materials, and details together—in a model you can actually understand. You’ll see how the home feels before the work is in the field.

Explore residential services

For developers + builders

Show what the next project can become.

Move from early concept to a persuasive, buildable story. Makyle can lead design, strengthen presentations, or work quietly as an extension of your team.

Explore development services

Range, with a point of view.

Residential intimacy. Hospitality energy. Development scale.

Modern lake house living room with water views 01 View project

Custom Lake House

Luxury residential · Michigan

With Carrie Long Interiors

Warmly detailed contemporary hotel guest room 02 View project

Traverse City Hotel

Hospitality concept · Northern Michigan

With Pophouse

Moody, richly detailed Detroit cocktail bar 03 View project

Detroit Speakeasy

Hospitality · Detroit

With Pophouse

Sculptural reception lounge in the Hudson’s Detroit development 04 View project

Hudson’s Atrium

Amenity + hospitality · Detroit

With Pophouse

Contemporary desert home with mountain views 05 View project

Desert House

Luxury residential · Arizona

With Carrie Long Interiors

Boutique hotel guest room concept for The Alchemy 06 View project

The Alchemy Hotel Concept

Boutique hospitality · Detroit

With Pophouse

Project experience includes work recognized by Interior Design Magazine, AIA Detroit, ICSC, the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, and the Detroit Design Awards.

From the first possibility to the decision everyone understands.

Engage Makyle for a focused phase or carry the same design thinking through the whole project. Scope is shaped around what will create the most clarity and momentum.

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Home design + interiors

Ground-up homes, additions, renovations, space planning, interior architecture, built-ins, materials, and the details that make a home feel resolved.

  • Concept + schematic design
  • Floor plans + spatial studies
  • Interior and material direction
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Development + hospitality

Design concepts for boutique lodging, restaurants, branded spaces, amenity environments, and residential developments—built to earn alignment early.

  • Feasibility + concept studies
  • Guest and user experience
  • Investor and stakeholder presentations
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Real-time design + visualization

Live working sessions, accurate 3D models, and immersive visuals turn abstract choices into informed decisions—without waiting weeks between rounds.

  • Live design sessions
  • 3D modeling + renderings
  • Option and material studies
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Design-team support

Flexible production and documentation support for architects, designers, builders, and developers. Work can be client-facing or delivered discreetly under your brand.

  • Drawings + documentation
  • Presentation development
  • White-label studio partnership

Less guessing.More designing.

A direct, visual process that keeps the project moving.

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    Walk the opportunity

    Start with the site, the ambition, the constraints, and how the place needs to work.

  2. 02

    Build it together

    Explore plans and ideas in real time, with fast feedback and fewer lost-in-translation handoffs.

  3. 03

    See it clearly

    Use accurate models and visuals to compare choices, align the team, and create confidence.

  4. 04

    Carry it forward

    Translate the direction into presentations, design drawings, and coordinated next steps.

Makyle Welke standing in a Northern Michigan woodland

Makyle Welke
Architectural designer

Big-project experience. Northern Michigan perspective.

I’m an architectural designer based near Petoskey, with more than a decade of experience across luxury residential, hospitality, workplace, retail, and mixed-use projects.

I work in 3D from the start because good design gets better when everyone can see it, question it, and shape it together. My role is part designer, part translator: finding the idea, making it tangible, and helping the right decisions happen earlier.

After years contributing to ambitious projects across Detroit and beyond, I’m bringing that rigor home—working directly with Northern Michigan homeowners, builders, and developers to create places with a strong sense of purpose and place.

Start a conversation

Have a site, a sketch, or simply an idea?

Let’s bring your next space into focus

Share the project type, location, and where you are in the process. I’ll respond with a practical next step.

design@makyle.com

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