It's been a while, but I have to say, nothing big has been happening. Rick went on vacation then we went on vacation and next thing you know, 3 weeks have blasted by.
The good news is that after our last meeting on Monday, where we modified the roofline pretty dramatically and finalized all of [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Architecture’
June 21, 2006
Going to Estimates
April 21, 2006
The Man Is Keeping Us Down
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We met with Rick the other night and he delivered some semi-bad news to us. The City of San Jose has decided that attached garages are negatively affecting the integrity of the neighborhood of Willow Glen. Ouch, says us.
Our options are to A.) Spend a few hundred dollars and several weeks [...]
April 7, 2006
Awesome 3rd Meeting
We had a great meeting the other night. Rick had some good ideas and felt that we were getting really close. At this point, we need to finalize where were are going to have the walls.
Probably best if this is opened in another window, but you can see that we are adding the [...]
April 3, 2006
First and Second Architect Meetings
We had our first and second architect meetings recently. It was great. It was like being in grade school again. We simply took our existing floor plan and a Sharpie marker and drew all over it on velum. We made 3 different versions and ended up with one that we really liked.
Holly and I [...]
April 3, 2006
First Check
Well, I suppose with the writing of the first check the project is officially underway. All of the contractors that we spoke with recommended several architects, but one name came up with all of them and that was Rick Hartman of HOMETEC Architecture. We were really glad to see this as, obviously, this means that [...]
