My contract process: Over the years I have met with many, many people to design a plethora of different projects. Projects ranging from simple bathroom remodels, kitchens, outdoor kitchens, and additions as well as complete home designs. The one thing…
Year: 2019
Remodeling Your Home?
Remodeling, Add Value to Your Home! I am currently working on a remodeling design project in South Salem. These poor folks have gone though the wringer with this home. The home was originally supposed to be a part of the…
How do my Custom Home plans differ from an Architects?
How do my custom home plans differ from those of an Architect? I create stunning unique custom home designs with necessary code-compliant details to obtain permits and construct your home. I provide detailed structural & permit documents that a general…
Design, It is a process!
Design, It is a process! If I had a dollar for every time many over the years a client or prospective client has asked, “How long will it take?”, I would be a wealthy man! The answer in most cases,…
Engineering? What is Required?
Engineering is not always a hot question during preliminary design meetings! However, Engineering is the elephant in the room, a unknown, a hidden cost! The simple truth is, engineering usually is not a big deal, providing you plan ahead for…
Brookings, a Small but not Tiny House for Downsizing
Brookings, a Small but not Tiny House for Downsizing I have been doing quite a bit of looking at the tiny house concept, but I am not sure I want something that small. We have an RV for traveling, but…
House at the Coast
Want a House at the Coast? Another house at the coast! It seems that I end up designing quite a few homes for coastal living here in Oregon. While I have a few spare moments, I thought I would post…
To Truss or Not to Truss
Truss, Can I ? Truss? One of the common misconceptions made is that home designs can easily be converted to trusses from a traditional or stick framed roof system. Sometimes this is true, but most of the time, people don’t…
Interior Ceiling Features
Interior Ceiling Features : In keeping with a promise to give updated photos of one of my current jobs, Preliminary Drawings and Design Going Forward. The renderings below show a series of ceiling options designed to enhance each room. In…
Design Going Forward…
Design Updates Design Going Forward: After working with this layout for a few days, I ended up reversing the plan. We, “the client “and I played with the front entry trying to give it more appeal from the street. I…