by dreamdoctor | Jan 13, 2025
A delightful client/became a friend to work with – conservative in business, liberal/artistic in his personal life. I first was commissioned by hm and his spouse around thirty some years ago to do something about their boring HOA spec built home. I don’t...
by dreamdoctor | Apr 18, 2017
We moved here in ’91. Of all the houses we looked at this was the one that had been designed by the owner – all the rest were plan book or speculative. So many projects. A word of advice – if you ask your spouse their opinion you’d better be...
by dreamdoctor | Apr 18, 2017
Some projects are built well or at least competently built but have no redeeming characteristics beyond that. Some projects are built poorly but have character worth rehabilitating – this is one of those. The first line of their program was – “We...
by dreamdoctor | Apr 17, 2017
This project was originally designed by a great architect. And that is fine as long as you don’t have to deal with it. This was to be a passive solar home so efficient that you wouldn’t really need to have an HVAC system, but the bank requires it –...
by dreamdoctor | Apr 14, 2017
I do a lot of lighting design – layout, specifying and actual design. It is very hard to get a good picture of a lighting installation – they have to be experienced for the most part. Lighting is one of the biggest determining factors of success in a...
