by JJerraldHayes | Feb 16, 2018 | Design Trends
Rules for Proportion From the Greeks to the Golden Rectangle When it comes to rules of proportion, I never understood the whole picture. At least not until recently, not before spending the last three years studying the classical orders with Todd Murdock-one SketchUp...
by JJerraldHayes | Aug 9, 2017 | Design Trends, The Real Estate Market
After briefly being forced to shut down in June due to a lawsuit for critiquing the homes depicted in photos which Zillow customers had uploaded to their website McMansion Hell is back up and running again. What are McMansions and what constitutes McMansion Hell where...
by JJerraldHayes | Dec 21, 2016 | Design Trends, General Information
Builder Magazine is a trade magazine for new home builders covering the latest news on home designs, building materials, building products, and home plans. The Next Big Thing: Healthy Homes When Meritage Homes began to ask its average buyer, a 36-year-old mother of...
by JJerraldHayes | Aug 18, 2016 | Design Trends, General Information
Mark Q. Kerson (author of The Elements of Building: A Business Handbook For Residential Builders & Tradesmen) has created a new website titled House Parts, as a free visual resource for carpenters, builders, designers, and homeowners. House Parts photographs...
by JJerraldHayes | Aug 4, 2016 | Design Trends, Methods of Work
It’s always been a pet peeve of mine to get shutter installation correct even if they are something we no longer use the way they were once intended. Getting Shutters Right The shutters attached to many houses look haphazardly flung on and bear no relation to...
by JJerraldHayes | Feb 10, 2015 | Design Trends, Interior Projects
There is a new Yahoo News article that gives us a Consumer Report article looking at what they think are 5 Big Home Remodeling Trends for 2015 Kitchens go handle-less Commercial kitchen features coming home (Geez,… when have commercial kitchen type features,...
