Hand a client a full plan set and watch which page they turn to. It is never the foundation plan. It is the front elevation, because that is the drawing that looks like a house. It is also the drawing most people are least equipped to read, which is unfortunate,...
There is a room sitting above most garages that never gets built. The roof is already there, the foundation is already poured, the walls are already framed, and the space inside the trusses is filled with nothing but air and insulation. Attic trusses turn that air...
Preston sits about twenty five miles north of Logan, close enough that Franklin County is officially part of the Logan metropolitan area. People shop in Logan, work in Logan, and often assume that building a house up there works the same way. It mostly does, right up...
A cabin at Bear Lake is a different animal from a house in Logan, and the differences are not cosmetic. You are sitting close to 6,000 feet, the snow arrives heavier and stays longer, the building season is short, and for months at a time nobody may be there to notice...
Almost everyone arrives with a number, and almost every number is a memory. Our last house was 2,400 and it felt tight. My sister built 3,200 and it feels about right. The trouble is that two homes with identical square footage can live completely differently...
Nearly every client arrives with a folder of bedroom photos. Soft morning light, a bench at the foot of the bed, a freestanding tub under a tall window. What almost nobody arrives with is the thing that decides whether any of it is possible: dimensions, door swings,...
