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Vermont Architect 2012-05-10 14:10:36
I stole this off a friends facebook page and I don’t know where she got it from. This sums op so much of what I do. As I gain experience I should be able to make my process look more and more like the first sketch right? Nope – as I gain experience I see more options and opportunities on my way …

Doing the Architect thing

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Vermont Architect 2012-04-05 20:21:32
Probably related to the previous post. There seems to be a lot of psychology to what I do as an architect. When someone comes to me with their ideas I often sense that there is something behind those ideas and I want to know what it is. Some people welcome this level of ?interrogation? and others just want me to do some …

Nostalgia as a design influence

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Vermont Architect 2012-04-03 17:00:44
(Grumbly architect alert) Nostalgia is a powerful design influence for most clients. I find it interesting that otherwise artistic and creative people get all conservative when considering their own houses and I think a lot of this is due to a sense of nostalgia and a search for an emotional connection to something from their past whether real or imagined. Sometimes, however …

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Vermont Architect 2012-03-26 20:25:03
Another one for my Urban hipster friends: Pa Ingalls ain’t got nothin on me! If this had been three or four hundred years ago I would have been called ?crazy white dude who chases huge bears up trees and then throws plant pots at them? by the locals. This particular huge black bear Ursus Americanus Americanus showed up on our porch while …

Timberdoodles!

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Vermont Architect 2012-03-22 17:21:08
This is decidedly a non-architectural blog entry. More along the lines of child rearing and parenting. We have been having quite a warm spell in Vermont. Some trees are reacting to the warmth by leafing out which would indicate a measure of trust that I do not share. I remember a few years ago when the skies opened up and dumped …

My own Master Plan

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Vermont Architect 2012-03-19 16:50:04
My own house (circa 1970) has a minimally functional (could be worse) floor plan which includes two bedrooms a bath, stairs to the basement and a kitchenette in a large multipurpose room all in 900 square feet. Here is a current expansion plan which adds 63 square feet and gains a more functional layout, particularly in the kitchen and bedroom. It …

Mud Season in Vermont

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Vermont Architect 2012-03-15 21:46:23
This should really stun my more urban friends. My morning commute was blocked by some $#%$$# trying to drive through this soup with a little car. Which then got stuck and was abandoned. Then I noticed the little orange light on my gas gauge.

Occupant Behavior puts a kink in the calcs

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Vermont Architect 2012-03-12 18:13:06
From Martin Holladay on Green Building Advisor in an artivle titled “Occupant Behavior Makes a Difference” Engineer things all you want but when you put Americans into a house the metrics tend to change. This is pretty funny. It didn?t take long to figure out what was driving the high energy bills. ?There is a very large plasma TV, plus a …

Note to Do-it-yourselfers

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Vermont Architect 2012-03-09 21:15:20
The following is from a note I just sent off in an email and I thought it might be appropriate for the blog. In terms of budget and simplicity which go hand in hand I recommend one of two methods. If you have time and some good solid professional framing experience I recommend double wall stud frame construction. Otherwise I recommend a …

Addition

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Vermont Architect 2012-03-07 20:33:13

Woodshed

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Vermont Architect 2012-02-21 04:38:07

What I did this weekend

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Vermont Architect 2012-02-07 00:36:14
Got busy over the weekend and added this: Samuel Alden Swinburne born 2/4/2012 to this: Charlotte Farrin Swinburne born 10/26/2006

VSH1 youtube video

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Vermont Architect 2012-02-02 23:56:27
I forgot about this

Angles and Curves

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Vermont Architect 2012-01-22 22:00:55
I was recently sent a ?suggested? floor plan for a renovation project that gave me a good laugh. It was for an old house where rooms opened to each other gracefully and the back parts of the building (not original) contained hallways and many smaller rooms. There was not a big budget. The plan I was sent took out many walls …

Sketchup/Photoshop quick rendering

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Vermont Architect 2011-12-30 18:11:26
Here is a house I have been working on. I took an image from the sketchup model, added some site photos to create a background saved an image, touched it up a bit in Photoshop and here it is.

our house at 3/8″

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Vermont Architect 2011-12-21 22:57:49
My 5 year old daughter should be pleased on Christmas morning. This is our house at 3/8″ = 1′ in Basswood

CLOG – the complete construction log for Tiny house

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Vermont Architect 2011-12-01 20:33:18
CLOG – the complete construction log for Tiny house. Caleb and Laura kept a CLOG or Construction Log for their tiny house in Brattleboro. Plans for it are for sale on HousePlans.com

Drawing Floor Plans – what’s involved

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Vermont Architect 2011-11-30 15:10:33
Anyone can draw up a floor plan right? well…. Drawing a a floor plan is more complicated than most people realize. Floor plans are a fun but small part of what I do as an architect and involve much more than sketching on graph paper. To create a floor plan, or I should say; while creating a floor plan I must think of …

Content for Articles?

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Vermont Architect 2011-11-29 19:03:20
I am gathering old blog material to sort through in hopes of coming up with a half dozen topics that would make a good set of articles to pitch to my local newspaper. The overall subject would be “Home Design” or something along those lines. Does anyone out there have any suggestions? Planning Styles Budgeting and Cost control Building science additions and master planning Stewardship …..

Plan rendering

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Vermont Architect 2011-11-21 23:43:45
Sometimes it helps me to think about how a plan “lives” by spending some time on it with colored pencils and markers exploring relationships, light, land…. This design is similar to a house I’m working on right now but there are a few crucial differences that represent how I would have developed the design. As an architect I often think about …

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