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  • Redesigned kitchen gets artful twist

    Toronto — At the minimum, a kitchen serves as a place for cooking and food preparation. However, when Erica Westeroth, CKD, ARIDO, XTC Design Inc. in Toronto, Canada, was commissioned to renovate a 6,500-square-foot home for clients in the greater...

    Article • December 6th, 2012

  • Whole House $200,000 - $500,000

    Gold Allen Associates, Santa Barbara, Calif. This house is a transformation of a classic California ranch-style beach bungalow built in 1952 to a modern villa retreat. Because the house had settled, surfaces were not plumb or level. The project...

    Article • September 11th, 2012

  • Whole House More Than $500,000

    Gold Architectural Resource LLC, Ann Arbor, Mich. Objectives for this whole-house remodel included adding a wing for a bedroom and bathroom, home office, screened-in porch, kitchen gut, first-floor utility room, lower-level recreation room with a...

    Article • September 11th, 2012

  • Energy-efficiency Retrofit

    Gold Scott Wilson Architects LLC, Brentwood, Tenn. The existing home is located in an older neighborhood with a historic overlay in place, requiring that any alterations adhere to and maintain the historic fabric of the structure and community. A...

    Article • September 11th, 2012

  • Slopes, water and trees; oh, wow

    Builder, architect and homeowner use the design/build process to complete this Texas lake house on a challenging lot filled with trees and sloping land

    Article • May 9th, 2012

  • A simple, open experience

    Design of custom home includes huge folding doors, virtually no hallways, and what is practically a one-room house

    Article • March 22nd, 2012

  • Enlightening challenge

    Before discussing the design of this home and its beautiful kitchen in Eldorado Hills, Calif., one first must acknowledge the site condition prior to construction. The house sits on a steep slope [see photo pg. 19], creating challenges for both the...

    Article • March 22nd, 2012

  • More Than Green

    Incorporating green products and technology in a remodeled home shouldn’t exclude aesthetics, livability and accessibility. Iris Harrell, chief executive officer and senior designer of Mountain View, Calif.-based Harrell Remodeling Inc., believes...

    Article • December 9th, 2011

  • Master Design Award Winner: Darcy Bean Custom Construction

    Darcy Bean and Magda Zafer discuss their winning Whole House project.

    Video • December 1st, 2011

  • Designer Masters Art of Industrial

    VALLEY FORGE, PA — When Larry Palmer was a student studying for his master of fine arts degree at the University of Chicago, he had his first experience with zinc plate etching, experimenting with the metal in one of his classes. But it wasn’t...

    Article • November 7th, 2011

  • Team up to succeed

    By pure definition, a custom home meets the needs and wants specific to a client. The only way these needs and wants can be met successfully is with open communication — especially when the end result is a highly detailed 6,500-sq.-ft. home in a...

    Article • October 13th, 2011

  • Perfect the art of best practices

    The term “green” elicits both positive and negative responses from those in the housing industry. Josh Wynne, owner of Sarasota, Fla.-based Josh Wynne Construction, avoids this term completely. Wynne also is the designer and builder of U.S. Green...

    Article • August 15th, 2011

  • Vacation home

    Site influenced a design vision that focuses on exterior circulation patterns and moments of outdoor living. Expansive views, wind patterns and an existing tree canopy serve as crucial influences in the project’s design development. These elements...

    Article • June 20th, 2011

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