5 Tips For Seattle’s Remodeled Home Tour
5 simple tips to help you make the most out of the Remodeled Homes Tour in Seattle.
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New Home in the San Juan Islands: Ready for Living!
New Home in the San Juan Islands: Ready for Living! We love our new home! We spent a lovely day last week visiting our Island Cabin and celebrating its completion
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Before Architecture can help
Architects Without Borders: Before Architecture Can Help We’re Seattle architects working on a new school project in Haiti, in a particularly underserved community. As part of the Architects Without Borders team, we
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San Juan Islands Build – Update
Our house is nearing completion! Designing this unique custom home, and then watching it come to life has been such a rich experience…a process that no architect ever tires of! Once the wall board
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Lodge House
Approaching the lodge house… there’s a sense, an architecture of timelessness, something that’s been here for a while and something that will be for a while yet, a place to sit by the
Small Space, Big Change
Small Space, Big Change – CTA Builders Featured in Seattle Met Magazine Craftsman Remodel – CTA Design Builders are thrilled that our Craftsman Charmer project (Project Link) has been featured in the August
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Architects Without Borders
Architects Without Borders and CTA Builds I’ve recently teamed up with “Architects Without Borders” (http://awb-seattle.org/) as a Project Manager. In this role I’m able to give back a little where
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Design Pointers from a Classic Mid-Century Architect
A Great Seattle Architect. Gene Zema’s Lupton Residence: Design Analysis. Here are further thoughts on design from an analysis of the Lupton Residence! (See our earlier blog posting for an
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Northwest Style: Architecture Tips from the Masters
We have had the honor of visiting and even remodeling several classic mid-century homes recently, and have been (re)learning the importance of regionalism in our work. Techniques, themes, and concepts used in many
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Why Design Build ?
We sometimes get asked “why design build”, or more specifically, “why architect led design build”? So we have put together a few paragraphs to explain why we think this is
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Seattle Tour of Architects: Seattle Homes designed by Architects and open for viewing
information on upcoming Tour of Architects. Our remodel and addition project will be open for touring. Visit us and see this Seattle whole-house remodel, created by a Seattle design-build team.
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Island House Update March
Architect’s comments on a new house design in the San Jual Islands.
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Creating a Northwest Style of Modernism: thoughts on a Paul Hayden Kirk house.
analysis of Paul Kirk residence, Northwest style of architecture, Northwest Contemporary residential design, Seattle modernism, contemporary architecture in Seattle
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Island House Update
San Juan Island architect comments on new house construction as it unfolds.
Construction process on San Juna Island new home.
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Remodelling Older Homes – Size Matters
Remodelling Older Homes – Size Matters We often get called into a project where a homeowner’s challenge is that they don’t have the space for some necessary function – like
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The Importance of Thoughtful Interior Design
The Importance of Thoughtful Interior Design As observers and creators of our built-environment we get truly excited when all the pieces come together to create a harmonious space from outside
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Front Porches everyone!
Front Porches Everyone ! We love residential architecture and we love our neighborhoods, and the two work really well together when each supports the other. It works out best because
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Island House Rendering Movie
Island House Rendering Movie Our Island House has been moving right along! We’ve had a number of client meetings to fine-tune the floor plan, which in turn impacts the exterior
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Island House Update 1
Island House Update 1 After a couple of revision rounds with the little cardboard models, we then turned to our 3-D computer program to really start studying the design and
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Here are our further developments on the Island Cabin!
Here are our further developments on the Island Cabin! A plan is taking shape…responding to cues from the landscape as well as the owners’ “program”. It will be an intentionally
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