East Side Sunset Recollections
It has been a little over a year since my mother, Evelyn Healy, passed away after a brief illness. I’d like to share again my reflections from one of her last nights of clarity where we sat together as the …
Bedroom Transformation in a Multigenerational Antique Home
This small bedroom in an antique post and beam house presented lots of design and construction challenges. Beyond the uneven floors, sagging roof and low ceilings that you would expect in a house that had weathered more than a century …
Accessory Apartment Cottage Blues
Seattle City Council Member Mike O’Brien tours a backyard cottage in 2016. I am currently running into a problem with a project in Connecticut that imposes a “high bar” to be able to create a legal accessory apartment. Accessory apartments …
Hidden Hinge Solution for an Unusual Door Placement
This project reclaimed underused Attic space for a Sleeping Loft for the daughter and a Home Office for Dad. Safety concerns required two means of egress (stairs) and a door between the two spaces but restricted headroom limited where it …
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NEXT STEP
DISCOVERY REVIEW
I have a pre-design service I provide called the Next Step Discovery Review. For a modest fee that we determine once we identify the scope of the work, I prepare a report that identifies the hidden barriers and opportunities in …