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Category Archive: info for home-making
Construction is well under way on a single family house we designed for a site in north Boulder. The lot is on the edge of the city’s open space facing west to a series of rolling foothills. As a corner lot, the house’s views are primarily directed toward this westward view with some smaller, more [...]
Over the last several months I have posted images of the construction progress for a house we designed up on Sunshine Canyon, just west of Boulder. The original house at this location was lost to the Fourmile Fire in September 2010 along with 170 other houses. We are in the last 4-6 weeks of construction, [...]
We have been working on a project in Boulder that holds a number of challenges, not the least of which is a long narrow lot with severe building restrictions. My client’s property is 50′ wide by 188′ long, but because of its corner location, both street-facing sides of the lot require a 25′ wide setback [...]
We are just getting ready to start construction on a new house in the Dakota Ridge Village neighborhood of north Boulder. The project is a design/build collaboration with Cottonwood Custom Builders with whom we have executed a number of past projects. The house consists of an extensive main level which houses all the primary functions [...]
We finally have some initial photos of the author and illustrator’s studio we completed earlier this year. The project consisted of the demolition of an older studio building – small and poorly constructed – and the creation of a new studio with an elevated reading loft. One of our goals of the project was to [...]
One of the sure-fire ways of designing a cool looking building in graduate school was to be infected with the Hyper-Attenuated Building Syndrome (HABS). Any project can be made absurdly long and skinny and by violating any notion of “pleasant” golden-section-type proportions, it instantly propels a project from everyday to extraordinary. Mind you, this was [...]
It can be hard to decide – this or that, one or two, artisan whole wheat or quinoa spelt (hey, I live in Boulder). Hopefully there is not a lot riding on those decisions and a mistake can be revisisted or disguised as toast. A house it not such an easy fix. I am not [...]
A year ago today, the Fourmile Fire was raging in the foothills just west of Boulder. It started on Labor Day and I was in the studio, working, with the door to the balcony open when I started to smell smoke. That first hint of smoke grew and when I finally went out on the [...]