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Creative Juices – recharging your batteries

January 30, 2012 by Bob Borson 11 Comments

Creative Juices – recharging your batteries

It is only the end of January but I am feeling a little burned out, moving through the week in a fog-like creative vacuum - which is a really bad thing when you are in a creative field. It's time to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life in General, Travel Tagged With: a day in the life, design, Travel

It’s all about me

January 19, 2012 by Bob Borson 34 Comments

It’s all about me

Since I’ll be invading Bob’s blog on a semi-regular basis, I figure that I need to get to know you all a little better and in turn have you all get to know me (not the “hey, we should go grab a beer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Observations Tagged With: Architecture and Society, conversations, design, furniture, Scott Taylor

Exterior Ceilings – Here’s an idea for you

December 19, 2011 by Bob Borson 29 Comments

Exterior Ceilings – Here’s an idea for you

. In the picture above, you are looking up at the ceiling of  an exterior patio. More specifically, you are looking at 1x1 ipê wood strips attached to medium density overlay board that has been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Materials and Products, Modern House, My Work Tagged With: Construction Observation, design, details, Sale Street

Small Residential Projects

December 5, 2011 by Bob Borson 22 Comments

Small Residential Projects

Not every residential project I work on as an architect is large with an even larger budget - that just happens to be the case lately and where I find my role in the office. Since smaller projects … [Read more...]

Filed Under: My Work Tagged With: being a part of the design process, design, great to work with architects, modern house, Residential Architect, sketching, sketchup

B Roll from Bob Trending

September 26, 2011 by Bob Borson 3 Comments

B Roll from Bob Trending

Do you know what "B Roll" is? If you guess "what happens when Bob falls backwards out of his chair" you wouldn't be entirely wrong but that's not it. Basically, its secondary footage that is used to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life in General Tagged With: Blog tour 2011, design, light fixtures, London

Planning and Zoning Departments make my face hurt

September 15, 2011 by Bob Borson 37 Comments

Planning and Zoning Departments make my face hurt

Planning and Zoning Departments make my face hurt. Maybe not as bad as the original "this make my face hurt" and the infamous "this really make my face hurt" ... but my face still hurt. . Do … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Design, Life in General Tagged With: a day in the life, builder homes, design, Materials

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