“To listen to our clients, to understand their lives and their dreams, and to interpret them and incorporate them into a new home or renovation that works. To see new possibilities...unique approaches...while remaining mindful of the project's specific design requirements. To design homes with spaces that reflect our client's personalities, their tastes, their preferences, the way they live and the way they want to live.”

CMRD&D is an innovative architectural design firm with almost 30 years of hands-on experience. The firm specializes in high end custom homes and residential renovation projects, with design work which can be viewed in homes on city streets and country estates across the Ottawa-Carleton region.

Graduating in Architectural Technology in 1979, company founder Chuck Mills worked in Calgary until 1983 before moving to the nation’s capital. He worked for several of Ottawa’s premier builders and developers before establishing his own design company and consultancy in 1994. Today his firm serves a wide clientele of homeowners, bringing to them all the benefits of his broad knowledge of the most recent design trends, the most advanced CAD technology, and the latest, state-of-the-art building methods and materials.

Over the years, Chuck's work has garnered a prestigious array of design awards (National, Provincial and local) and has been featured many times in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper and the country's leading building trade publications.