The second in an on-going installment of things I think are cool. Whenever I find something that stops me down and gets me to say ‘cool’, I stick it in a post.
I decided to start a monumental project at my house this weekend – stripping my concrete floors. Depending on what you know, that may or may not be a big deal so let me tell you….it’s a big deal, for a couple of reasons.
Because more and more of our designs are about extending the inside into the yard, we want to design our fences to read more like walls. This allows us to create a visually pleasant and viably usable exterior area while trying to capture that random 10′ of side yard space. One of the ways we avoid our fences actually looking like fences is to use alternate materials and/or different scaled components to build the fence.
I get to work one some really nice projects so I’ve been exposed to some tubs that look and perform great. I thought I would put some of my favorites on display here. The prices run the range so these wouldn’t all be appropriate for the same project or budget but since this is my fantasy list, I’ve included whatever I wanted to – neener neener.
I have been toying with the idea of creating a post that just sits there for a while and whenever I find something that stops me down and gets me to say ‘cool’, I’d stick it in that post. So this is the first one, chock-o-block full of stuff I think is kinda worth checking [...]
Of course it’s impractical, but I think there’s something to be gained from what they’re proposing, even if it’s just the questions their work poses. Where do you go when there’s nowhere to hide? Is it possible to furnish a room and set a tone with a home’s location?
I can still remember all the times I went on a job site and heard someone use a word I had never heard before. There is a unique language that gets used on a job site and by admitting you couldn’t speak it, well, you might as well go sit in the port-a-john until the [...]
I interviewed concrete artisan Richard Holschuh to learn more about concrete as an interior finish material, his methodology for working with the material, and the finished ethereal qualities of one of the oldest known building materials.
And by my favorite things, I’m going to say that these are materials and products that I would like to use on my own house (yes, I am aware that if I used them all it would look like a student project but I might try anyways). Cor-ten Paneling After installation and exposure to normal weather [...]
It’s the little details that make a good house a great one. A product that we frequently use that helps set the design tone from the street is address letters. If you have ever gone out shopping for them, you can attest to just how hard it is to anything special. In the picture below, you [...]
