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A Year and a Half After Moving In 25 Jan 2012 | 02:14 pm
It’s now been about a year and a half after moving in, and since many people have asked me to do a follow-up post on how things are going, I thought I would do that. Overall Overall, we couldn’t be ...
The Complete Timelapse 18 Nov 2010 | 05:22 pm
Putting together the final timelapse was a lot more difficult than expected. Since the construction cam was snapping one shot every five minutes and saving it to my server, there were 288 shots for ev...
Final costs and stats 5 Nov 2010 | 04:48 pm
Now that the house is all completed and everything’s paid for, I thought I’d share some of the final costs and statistics of the project. Half the fun of keeping such meticulous documentation during c...
Interior Lighting Detail 1 Oct 2010 | 02:49 pm
Finally, we come to the final post on this blog that involves a stage of the project and the expenses associated with it. Whew! Onto the subject of the post: lighting. I came into this construction ...
Doorbells, Numbers, Mailboxes, and Carpets 29 Sep 2010 | 05:02 pm
As I get ready to post the final costs for the project, I have two entries to sneak in first: this one covering several items and another one covering decorative lighting. The doorbell For the incre...
Hardscape Detail 22 Sep 2010 | 03:40 pm
One of the most successful aspects of the entire project, without question, has been the hardscaping. Not only were the contractors — Jim and Jim of Blackhawk Construction — among our favorite people ...
Smarter Space Usage with Sliding Doors 22 Sep 2010 | 02:01 pm
One of the things that can make a house feel too big is an abundance of hallways and rooms. You know the style: you walk in and there are three hallways leading to different places. You walk down one ...
A short post about the fireplace, the stairs, and the awesomeness of Bart 16 Sep 2010 | 03:46 pm
In the web business, there is a chain of people involved in most projects. Chronologically speaking, it goes something like this: client (who hires the firm), account planner (who writes the brief), d...
How to Design a Perfect Bathroom 1 Sep 2010 | 04:17 pm
Bathrooms are a big deal. People sink a lot of money into them because of the labor and materials involved, but rarely do homeowners take a close look at the usability of their prospective new bathroo...
Mitigating Solar Gain with Motorized Shades 30 Aug 2010 | 10:47 am
The shades from outside the house. Only the uppers are down in this shot. Given that the house faces Puget Sound to the southwest and the view side is almost completely glass, it was of utmost import...
