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My Favorite Color

May 24, 2011 by Bob Borson 27 Comments

When the question was posed - "What is your favorite color?" I instantly thought that many people have a favorite color - but I don't think I do.     'Why is that' you ask? It's because I am a highly trained to move beyond my … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Life in General Tagged With: about bob, color, Let's Blog Off

The Art of Residential Construction

May 23, 2011 by Bob Borson 11 Comments

Art of Residential Construction

One of the neatest tricks about modern residential design is that everything looks so obvious, clean and organized ... and it takes a lot of work and coordination to make things look easy. I recently had a coordination meeting on site with the … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: My Work Tagged With: a day in the life, Architects, Construction Observation, Construction Process, contractors

Writing your resumé

May 19, 2011 by Bob Borson 158 Comments

Resume tips

It's that time of year again and the resumes from graduating college seniors are starting to crash our office door. What better time than now to have a little chat about them? What this post isn't going to be a list of how to write a resume - … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Career, Do you want to be an Architect? Tagged With: architects office, Architecture School, career, resume

Modern Infill Project in Dallas

May 17, 2011 by Bob Borson 25 Comments

scaffolding

I spend about half of my day working on the construction administration of our projects (in one form or another). One of our current projects is a modern infill project under construction about 3 miles from our office. It's a really interesting … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Dallas Architecture, My Work Tagged With: Architects, Construction Process, great to work with architects, Modern Architecture, modern house, Residential Architect, Sale Street

Knoll Hardoy Butterfly Chairs

May 16, 2011 by Bob Borson 54 Comments

Today I am going to talk about the Knoll Hardoy Butterfly (BFK) chairs. I have two original butterfly chairs that came into my possession because someone else decided to throw them away.   (what?!?)    That's right - scoreboard.  . . via … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Life in General, Materials and Products Tagged With: a day in the life, furniture, My House

Cork Flooring: A modern floor choice

May 12, 2011 by Bob Borson 55 Comments

Cork flooring is a bit of a mystery - not just to me but to everyone I've ever asked ... although they don't all admit it. If you do any research on cork at all, you will find all sorts of conflicting information. Normally I could turn to my … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Materials and Products Tagged With: Materials

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