Meet Bucca
Nicholas Buccafurni, known as “Bucca,” is the founder of Vellum Design Studio, a residential design firm dedicated to creating exceptional homes through thoughtful design and strong client relationships.
Based in Central Oregon for over a decade, Bucca has cultivated lasting partnerships with clients, builders, interior designers, and landscape architects—assembling a tailored team for each project to ensure its success.
Each custom home is designed with a deep sensitivity to its surroundings, integrating topography, views, and solar orientation to enhance both function and beauty. Above all, every design is shaped by the client’s lifestyle, ensuring a seamless blend of vision, flow, and livability. With fluency in all architectural styles, Vellum Design Studio brings both versatility and artistry to every project.
Drawing from a lifetime immersed in construction and architecture, Bucca blends creativity with technical precision to craft homes where design and function exist in perfect harmony.
A LEED Accredited Professional
A LEED Accredited Professional credential signifies an advanced depth of knowledge in green building practices. The LEED professional credentials were developed to encourage green building professionals to maintain and advance their knowledge and expertise. All LEED professional credentials require adherence to the LEED Professional Disciplinary and Exam Appeals Policy and require ongoing credential maintenance requirements either through continuing education and practical experience or through biennial retesting.
An award winning firm
With deep roots in Bend, Oregon, Vellum Design Studio was voted Central Oregon’s 2023 Home Designer of the Year—a recognition that reflects both the quality of the work and the trust of the community. Founder Nicholas “Bucca” Buccafurni brings a personal passion to every project, creating custom homes that capture the character of the land and the life style of those who live there.