Designing Ductless Around Wellesley Architecture
Wellesley homeowners rarely ask us just to make the house comfortable — they ask us to make it comfortable without seeing the equipment. That constraint drives every design decision. In the center-entrance Colonials around Wellesley Hills, we typically run line sets through closet chases or an unfinished attic knee wall so the exterior stays clean, and we use slim wall units high on interior partition walls rather than exterior walls under windows. In the Tudors near the college, where plaster detailing and leaded windows are the point of the house, ceiling cassettes in a dropped hallway soffit often beat a wall head entirely. Cliff Estates and Wellesley Farms properties tend to be larger and set back, which gives us freedom to place the condenser on a side yard pad behind screening rather than crowding a patio. We photograph and mark every proposed head and line-set path before installation day and walk it with you, because the wrong penetration in a plaster ceiling is not something you undo.