Four decades:
Wright then and now I realized the other day that September 2019 marks my fortieth anniversary as a professional architect. Well, technically, I wasn’t an architect until I got my license in 1986, but my first job after college started in September of 1979. I had graduated in the spring … Read More
-$48 PG&E bill, i.e. it’s time to buy a new car!
We recently gave our first Net Zero Energy talk to the Rotary Club of Menlo Park (thank you Maya Sewald of Ovation Homes Real Estate for the introduction). Besides putting together a nice slide show with photos explaining the energy efficient solutions we built into our new home, it was … Read More
Building to last, at last
NEWS FOR EARTH DAY – WE REALLY HAVE STARTED CONSTRUCTION Almost eleven years ago, we found a vacant lot for sale in Pacifica, having looked around for a few years for a place to build our own house. The price was right, we had the cash, and 478 Monterey was … Read More
(B)Log of the Monterey
Tuesday, April 10 Christine here today, Bob actually did have to go do some paying work… The excavation and grading is starting! We stopped by yesterday to see the equipment on the site and was told by our contractor that they found oil underground. WHAAAAT? My mind raced in … Read More
Less and More (more or less)
We’ve just completed construction drawings on a new home to be built by Mansour and Kathy Moussavian in Los Altos, developers for whom we’ve worked on over half a dozen projects. Unusually for our practice and for our collaboration with the Moussavians, the home is in a ‘modern’ style. No … Read More
Presenting… Our New Home in Pacifica!
We are finally ready to share our plans with you! Thanks to Terry and Gerry at Millennium Enterprises for working with us to establish a preliminary budget and brainstorm additional ways to simplify and save costs. We have made the decision to go ahead and finalize our construction drawings and get actual … Read More
Whatever happened to our new house in Pacifica???
As we announced when we started this blog seven years ago, we plan to build our own house in Pacifica. Some of our studious readers may have been wondering what happened with that project. Our intention at the time was that we would have moved in about 2009 … but … Read More
New Home in Los Altos Hills Could be Yours!
2014 and 2015 have been the busiest ever in our architectural business, so I have to apologize to our blog followers. We hope to have more time to blog soon as we really, truly are starting design work on our own Net Zero Energy/Passive House in Pacifica California and want … Read More
New Beausoleil Designed Home in Los Altos now on the market!
New Beausoleil Designed Home in Los Altos now on the market! It’s been a busy year for us and our blogging has suffered. In the next few weeks we’ll be showcasing some of our current work, several projects finishing construction, several projects under construction, and several new houses on the … Read More