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Art is now being installed at the new house

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Thanksgiving in Carlisle, 2016

Thanksgiving here in Carlisle was fun and relaxed. My parent’s and I enjoyed a wonderful turkey, succotash, potatoes and cranberry sauce dinner that my Mother prepared in splendid fashion – verrrry good!

Today (Friday after) is a bit cold and rainy – but we met the Maryland Collins’ and went over to look at my […]

House numbers – Mid Century style!

More mid century stuff – I needed a number for my house, so I ordered from a company I found as an advertiser in Atomic Ranch magazine that specializes in Mid Century modern styling. I ordered my number (337) in cut stainless steel like the photo below but with the background plate in Capri Blue […]

Big house update

It has been a few weeks since I last posted. I have been travelling a fair bit and lots has gotten done

First off and exciting – the Geothermal system is installed and running. With that up and going, Paul was able to bring the house up to full temperature and get the floor and […]

Cold, cold, cold Washington’s Birthday holiday in Carlisle

This morning (Sunday), at sunrise, it was a chilly -21 degrees Fahrenheit on our front porch (indicated at -16 but we normally find a 5 degree difference due to heat from the house impacting the thermometer). The temperature at the town center is showing at -11. I think the difference is that we are downhill […]

Flooring and tile – some decisions have been made

Saturday was beautiful and cold after the snow on Friday (more on the way potentially – a series of Alberta Clippers are on their way – which is normally moisture starved storms from Alberta but they appear to potentially be meeting up with wet low pressure fronts coming up from the Carolinas – but that […]

Winter Storm Lexi, working on measurements for the kitchen island and tile stuff

I took today off to meet with Paul and get the final plan for the aluminum I-Beam cantilever and to go and choose tiles for the entryway floor & bathroom floors, the kitchen back-splash and tile in the bathrooms.

My Dad and I went over and met with Paul (and his son Tim) and they […]

Getting ready for lighting decisions

Quick post – to be elaborated on later – but lighting decisions are in-flight. This post is work in progress – kind of a in-flight storage of stuff

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Design Philosophy Series: Building a mid-century modern Atomic Ranch – A visualization

Deck Acorn has given me permission to post up a photo of the 3D rendering their Design department did for my house – this was still in the pre-visualization stage of things as we were working on finalizing. I was pretty sure that I would not need an outside architect based on what I had […]

Design Philosophy Series: Building a mid-century modern Atomic Ranch – turning feelings and thoughts into ideas on paper

Please see the prior post here for the answer to the question – Why build a mid century modern house in the early 21st century

At this point in my process, I had the land, the permits (thanks to the Fields hard work prior to selling the land to me!), and a builder picked out. […]