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Deck House project 9961

Happy MLK Day! A three day weekend leads to: Workshop design thoughts

Woke up this morning (Monday, Martin Luther King day – which is a stock exchange holiday, so one of my few official 3 day weekends) and we had a surprise overnight snow storm.  The forecasts didn’t seem to predict this … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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To mangle a quote – “The new NSTAR is here, the new NSTAR is here, the new NSTAR is here!”

For those of you who are not cross wired like me – Steve Martin classic bit here on Youtube NSTAR (aka – national grid or something) came on Friday and installed the electrical power hook.  Woo-Hoo! Paul’s team has been … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Design Philosophy Series: Building a mid-century modern Atomic Ranch – Why?

This is a post that I have been mulling over for quite some time – why did I decide to build a mid-century modern Atomic Ranch house as opposed to some other design style?  What is the thought process behind … Continue reading

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Insulation is in and the concrete team produce a work of pure artistry

Good morning all NSTAR might be coming in the near future – but I am starting to wonder if Paul will be able to get the Generac placed and running before they get organized and arrive – lol There have … Continue reading

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Fall has arrived in Carlisle and progress is continuing on my house project

edit at 6pm – added Geothermal details at the bottom of the post I have been doing some work travel and so it is has been a couple of weeks since any post here.  Fall has arrived in a definite … Continue reading

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Fall 2015 in Carlisle – a short construction update and other things

Fall has started to arrive in Carlisle and it is a misty Saturday here.  Things are continuing to move apace at the job site.  As you can see below in the pictures, things have moved forward quite quickly during the … Continue reading

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As we move into Fall, exterior stuff is happening

Deck house is known for their classic cedar tongue and groove vertical siding – there was a bit of a delay for installation as we were waiting on delivery from California.  But it is here and going up and my … Continue reading

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Kitchen & Bath design thoughts and other things

My prior post on the electrical, fireplace, kitchen and bath details grew into a monster of a post – so I decided to leave out my thoughts on why and how did we get here? and instead break them out … Continue reading

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