I was reminded yesterday that I never really told the story about the buried treasure we found in our backyard in 2001. We needed to correct some immediate drainage issues in the yard and in the small gangway between our house and our neighbor’s house. That area had the original brick pavers, but over the…
Category: renovation
addition: material inspiration
Despite all my recent moaning and groaning, I have managed to distract myself a bit from my current situation by organizing my thoughts about the future of this house. I really enjoyed putting together the post on the interior materials, and so I thought I’d move onto the exterior materials next, before heading back inside…
kitchen: material inspiration
Last week I showed you some basic massing / programmatic layouts of a possible addition and talked about the key pieces I’d put into a new kitchen design. This week I’m going to build on those ideas a bit and flesh out a few more details, starting with material and surface ideas. There’s no shortage…