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If you are shivering in the winter or roasting during the summer, then it may be time to change your home’s insulation. Upgrading your house with energy-efficient insulation is one of the easiest, quickest projects that you can perform. Top-of-the-line insulation will make your living areas more comfortable, lower energy bills, and increase property value. […]

When you want to hire an architect, it’s standard to meet the prospective candidate face-to-face. However, during the current COVID-19 reality, meeting someone in-person presents a challenge.  Maybe you’re open to reading reviews, doing a phone interview, and hiring an architect, but it’s the rest of the process where things get dicey.  Typically, there’s a […]

Prefabricated components are used throughout the construction of course. Now, some companies are marketing entire prefab homes. Prefab homes have been around for over 100 years but have never really caught on. They haven’t always been economical, and if the prefab isn’t specifically designed for your site, there’s a good chance it won’t exactly fit, […]

50 years ago, we architecture students joked about the day when we could just project a hologram of a building onto a piece of land then walk around with a spray gun shooting light-sensitive concrete in the air and voila! the completed structure. This was, of course, a fantasy then, however something quite like this […]

Selecting Your Builder Every project needs a builder.  Only licensed contractors may work on your property without you assuming great risk in case anyone is hurt. Classifications California classifies contractors into three categories, A, B, and C.  An A contractor is called a “General Engineering Contractor,” and they typically build public works like roads, dams, […]

This home design uses the sun to heat up an attic, through a glass roof via the greenhouse effect. The collected heat is then stored in sealed five gallon bottles of water covering the floor of the attic. The water bottles act like batteries, absorbing the heat and holding it until needed. Even in winter, this attic will get over 150 degrees, so there are thermostatically controlled louvers at the peak of the roof to bleed off excess heat when necessary.