While designing a home, keep the future in mind, especially because aging in place has become more of a reality. Here’s the short list of things to consider even if you are currently perfectly healthy and physically able:
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Who inspires you? For me, it’s been a combination of people at different points in my life and career. One thing I’ve noticed is that the best mentors, the great ones, are always pushing.
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A WELL Designed™ home will support you in so many ways. Rather than taking care of your home, the home will take care of you. Imagine a space where you can really relax, after a long day of running a business, working for charity, and taking care of your kids. Your bedroom, bathroom, and meditation space can feel like a sanctuary, a retreat.
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As a design-build firm we don’t do cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all design. This is the essence of what it means to be an Architect-Builder.
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I partner with many contractors and we share the fear of ‘what could go wrong?’ Here are ways architects and contractors work together in home building.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in western Pennsylvania is one of the very first architectural iconic buildings I ever visited. What you see in pictures is never the same as being there. On this visit, I felt the significance of scale and sensory connection.
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What did a guitar teacher who looks and plays guitar like a rock star teach me about architecture?
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The California Energy Commission has ruled that by 2020 solar panels will be required on all new homes with limited exemptions. For many people this may seem sudden. You may be one of them… feeling surprised, wanting to know more.
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Lovers of color, Mike and Colleen felt delighted when Sesshu Design enhanced their Desert Mountain home’s connection to its North Scottsdale, Arizona, environment.
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When you are an Architect-Builder, you tend to look for the connection between architecture and art. Not just for its beauty or how it makes you think or feel about the subject, but you also analyze how the art was made. This is especially true with sculptors and artists who construct large scale art installations.
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