Modern Custom Home with Resort Pool in Tampa, FL
Contemporary design with soaring lines and walls of glass, this Tampa residence features a resort-style pool with floating steps, expansive indoor-outdoor flow, and sleek finishes that define modern Florida living.
This Chippewa Avenue residence answers a question Tampa Bay clients ask repeatedly: how do you build a modern Florida home that lives like a resort without feeling like one? The answer at 427 Chippewa is restraint at the architectural level paired with confidence at the experiential level.
The home is organized around walls of glass that rise the full height of the public spaces, dissolving the line between living areas and the pool deck beyond. The pool itself — a clean rectangular geometry with floating step detailing — reads as an architectural element rather than a backyard amenity. Indoor and outdoor living spaces are designed as a continuous sequence, allowing the house to expand for entertaining or contract for daily use without feeling either oversized or compromised.
Material decisions throughout favor durability and visual quietness: smooth stucco exterior, neutral interior palette, and finishes selected to recede so the architecture and the natural light do the talking. The kitchen is built to perform for serious entertaining, but its detailing keeps it integrated with the living area rather than promoting itself.
The exterior expression is unmistakably modern — horizontal massing, minimal trim, and a controlled palette — but the home reads as relaxed rather than austere. That's the design discipline talking.
This project is representative of MTBH Studios' architect-led design-build work in Tampa, where the same team that designs the home also builds it, ensuring that ambitious modern architecture gets executed with the precision its proportions demand.
