Like farm to table for building materials—a tour of Amazon trees and lumber

These mighty-mites can provide heating, cooling, and air-mixing for a well-insulated house, but they look so darned—European. It is hard for many Americans to warm up to them.

We budgeted nearly $50,000 for the foundation and yet ran almost 100% over budget—that hurts.

Buenos Aires is an architectural voyeur’s destination, with gothic, and ornate classical buildings that rival Europe in grandeur. There are also a lot of cool homes, and street-level building craft to admire.

and sometimes I'm open to looking

Doors are like eyes, or maybe mouths. They tell you a lot about who's inside. Would you want to walk in and get to know them? 

 

Walking on a scaffold with boots is like tightening a lug molt with mittens

Your own private Idaho—or Argentina—inside the house​

May you build a ladder to the stars, may you climb on every rung ...

 

The tiny house on stilts is ready for relaxation!

An #oldschool approach to decorative concrete surfaces

 

Are windows the eyes of a home, or a gateway to its soul? 

A simple stairway Answers the question of why. Why regulations?

As family size contracts, big houses become small hotels

It’s a pleasure to stroll the streets of Colonia, Uruguay, and realize that in those homes you admire, you could also live.

People do. And it’s not too expensive. 

Tropical hardwood beams, locally-fashioned framing connectors, and mahogany siding. Who needs a view?

Simple country houses, Brutalist bodegas, and superb craftsmanship

 

Not all places have water that comes out of the ground courtesy of the city. Sometimes it comes out of a truck.