How to Bring the Cost of a Home within Budget With very few exceptions, building projects need to adhere to a budget of some sort. There...

A.K.A. Fun Time is Over :) In the last post we left off with the early times working through our schematic designs, playing with our...

Time to put pen to paper. It was about March of 2017, roughly five months after we purchased the lots...a hectic time of our lives after...

Accessory Dwelling Units, a.k.a. ADUs...What Are They, Can You Build One, and is it Right for You? What is an ADU you might ask? Is that...

"What should we do now?" So we finally, closed on the lots, now what? We found beautiful, wooded, lots, had an offer accepted, and...

"What do you look for in a lot?" As an architect, I get this question from time to time. It's much easier to give others advise when...

"What are we missing here?"... I can answer that one in a later blog post, or maybe several, because yes, there was a lot missing, or,...

"Why is it so cheap?!"... That was our thought as we perused the Zillow listing. Periodically (every day I mean), for no apparent reason...

And so it begins... ...or, maybe more accurately, where to begin? As I write this first blog post to document the design and...