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Junto House is a twelve-studio shared workspace at 1516 N Durham Drive in the Houston Heights. The space opened in spring 2026, founded by Andy and Morgan Sommer, the husband-and-wife team behind Forth & Nomad and Café Forth. Domo, the Sommers' new mindful cafe, opens one block north in September 2026. Each studio is a private office. The building includes a bookable meeting room, a kitchen, and a common lounge. Studios start at $975 a month. The meeting room is open to the public at $75 an hour or $450 a day. juntohouse.com
Founders
Andy Sommer, Co-founder
Andy Sommer is co-founder of Junto House and co-founder of its parent OffChance, a brand architecture studio. In 2017 he and his wife Morgan opened Forth & Nomad at Heights Mercantile, a 500-square-foot shop that grew over eight years into a 4,000-square-foot flagship with Café Forth inside. At Junto House he handles brand, strategy, and long-term planning. Domo, the Sommers' new mindful cafe, opens one block north in September 2026.
Morgan Sommer, Co-founder
Morgan Sommer is co-founder of Junto House and its parent OffChance, a brand architecture studio. In 2017 she and her husband Andy opened Forth & Nomad at Heights Mercantile, a 500-square-foot shop that grew over eight years into a 4,000-square-foot flagship with Café Forth inside. At Junto House she runs the space day to day. Domo, the Sommers' new mindful cafe, opens one block north in September 2026. The Heights has been her workplace for a decade.
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Andy and Morgan Sommer, co-founders of Junto House.
Photo: Traci Ling.
A private studio at Junto House.
Photo: Traci Ling. Interiors: Amanda Heineman, Studio Heineman.
The lounge at Junto House.
Photo: Traci Ling. Interiors: Amanda Heineman, Studio Heineman.
The bookable meeting room at Junto House. Available to members and non-members through juntohouse.com.
Photo: Traci Ling. Interiors: Amanda Heineman, Studio Heineman.
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Junto House Opens in the Houston Heights
Twelve private studios, a meeting room, and a common floor at 1516 N Durham Drive.
HOUSTON, May 27, 2026. Junto House opened in spring 2026 at 1516 N Durham Drive in the Houston Heights. The twelve-studio shared workspace was founded by Andy and Morgan Sommer, the husband-and-wife team behind Forth & Nomad and Café Forth. It sits a few blocks from the Forth & Nomad shop the Sommers opened at Heights Mercantile in 2017, and is now leasing private studios.
The building is a single floor of twelve private studios, a bookable meeting room, a kitchen, and a common lounge. Each studio is a private office, sized 66 to 148 square feet. There is no open floor, no hot desks, and no day passes onto the studio floor. Studios are members only, priced from $975 to $1,800 per month based on size. The meeting room is open to members and non-members at $75 per hour or $450 per day, bookable through juntohouse.com.
Junto House is built for independent founders, creatives, and operators who want a real office without the overhead of a long commercial lease. Tours are by appointment.
The Sommers opened Forth & Nomad in a 500-square-foot retail space at Heights Mercantile in 2017. Over the next eight years they grew it into a 4,000-square-foot flagship with Café Forth inside, becoming a regular fixture of Heights life. Junto House is the third concept they have put their names on. Domo, the Sommers' new mindful cafe, opens at 1420 N Durham Drive, one block north of Junto House, in September 2026. Interiors at Junto House are by Amanda Heineman of Studio Heineman.
"We wanted a workspace where the people around you make you better at your work," said Andy Sommer, co-founder. "We could not find that in the Heights, so we built the room we were looking for."
"We learned from Forth & Nomad that a small thing built carefully outlasts a bigger thing built quickly," said Morgan Sommer, co-founder. "Junto House is the same lesson, applied to a different problem."
The name Junto comes from Benjamin Franklin's 1727 mutual-improvement society in Philadelphia, a small circle of tradesmen and printers who met weekly to improve one another's work.
Studio tours are available by appointment. The meeting room is bookable by the hour or the day at juntohouse.com. Press inquiries should be directed to press@juntohouse.com.
About Junto House
Junto House is a twelve-studio shared workspace at 1516 N Durham Drive in the Houston Heights. The space opened in spring 2026, founded by Andy and Morgan Sommer, the husband-and-wife team behind Forth & Nomad and Café Forth. Domo, the Sommers' new mindful cafe, opens one block north in September 2026. Each studio is a private office. The building includes a bookable meeting room, a kitchen, and a common lounge. Studios start at $975 a month. The meeting room is open to the public at $75 an hour or $450 a day. juntohouse.com
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