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Affordable Home Design: Cost-Effective Materials + Simple Detailing
Brick. Tile. Metal. Stone. What do all these materials have in common? When installed properly they all look amazing. They are all durable, require little maintenance, and come in a variety or shapes, sizes, and [...]
Affordable Home Design: Simple House Design
A simple house design that is compact, efficient, and straightforward can considerably reduce the cost and time it takes to build your home.
Affordable Home Design: Efficient Floor Plans
The cost of building a new home depends on many factors: geography, size, complexity, quality of materials, design aesthetics, etc. But one thing is a constant: the size and complexity of the home have a direct correlation [...]
Affordable Home Design: Good Site Planning
Our previous article gave an introduction into creating an affordable home. In this post, we take a deeper look into one of the first places you look to reduce costs: good site planning. Before you [...]
Affordable Home Design: An Introduction
Would you like to create an affordable home? If you're one of those people who are deciding to build a new home over buying an existing one, you've probably already been thinking about money and [...]
Benefits of Working with an Architect
Why should I work with an architect and what are the benefits of working with one? Aside from the obvious emphasis on design, architects can add a lot of value to your project. We can [...]
Building Low-Tech, Sustainable Clay Brick Houses
How would you build a house in a remote location of the world with little money? You would probably use as many locally sourced materials as possible and the labor of family and friends. Right? [...]
Building Low-Cost, Sustainable Bamboo Houses
Bamboo. It's environmentally-friendly, sustainable, renewable, strong in tension and compression, and noted for its rapid growth. Bamboo houses are common in many parts of southeast Asia where bamboo grows abundantly. But just how do [...]
Reclaimed Timber: Fabricating & Erecting Timber Frames
Fabricating and erecting timber frames are exciting steps in the design and construction process of timber frame homes. They are also critical steps. Your timber design can be the best in the world, but if it [...]
An Architect’s Expertise
What Does An Architect Do? ....Ah, the most common question people ask. An Architect's Expertise Our knowledge, training, and skills make us particularly qualified to perform a variety of [...]