Concepts and Drawings



May
18
2005
 0

Our House


My House Originally uploaded by daviderwin. Ugh. This is exactly as addictive as I thought it would be. My headache says, "Go to bed," but I just keep measuring stuff.


May
25
2005
 4

The Addition


The Addition Originally uploaded by daviderwin. Did I mention this is addictive? Seriously.


Oct
18
2005
 0

The Addition


The Addition Originally uploaded by daviderwin. A foamcore model of our soon-to-be-new old home.


Dec
12
2005
 0

Front and rear elevations with siding and color ideas




Jan
22
2006
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Living Room




Jan
28
2006
 2

Kitchen


Still talking about the details last night. We lowered some of the countertops to 32in for Christiane's comfort. She had some brilliant ideas about the little stretch of lowered countertop next to the sink: one half pull-out trash and recycle and one half open shelves.


Jan
31
2006
 0

Before Pictures


These correspond to this and this. I forgot to note the mysterious box above the vent hood. My guess: it's Hoffa. I wanna be there when they bust it open.


Feb
6
2006
 1

Mouseover Mockup


This is a little hacky, but you get the idea. Mouseover for a before/after:


Feb
9
2006
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Mmmmmm, Chrome


My sister's family sent us a super-nice gift certificate wedding present to Rejuvenation. I've been drooling over the catalogues for years. Now. I'm. Going. Shopping!


Feb
10
2006
 0

Floor Plans and Elevations


I was just at our County Commissioner's campaign web site. I had one question. What does the County Commissioner do? Not a clue on the web site. So I thought, "What obvious first question is not being answered on the Erwin House Blog?" Thus, I present floor plans and elevations. (btw, this is what a County Commissioner...


Feb
12
2006
 1

A 1:1 Mockup


I believe in mocking things up. So yesterday, I used the kids' sidewalk chalk to draw a life-sized version of our new kitchen on the back porch of our rental. I was trying to explain the concept to our older boy. Boy: Why are we building the kitchen in the back yard? Me: It's just a drawing. Boy: It's really flat. Me:...


Feb
16
2006
 2

Sigh-kea


The Ikea kitchen is cheap, but inflexible in design, and it comes from a factory, not a craftsman across the street. If anyone has had a bad experience with Ikea cabinets, we really need an excuse to not use them. Btw, this is one of the last things Christiane did before her computer melted. Did Ikea kill her computer?...


Feb
16
2006
 0

Mmmmmmosaic


...for the kitchen backsplash. Colors and mixture by Christiane, and it fits the Apollo-space-program-chic that I want the kitchen to have. I have an old boat from 1959 that has those influences: chrome, gold, gloss white, red, gray, and black. The mosaic generator on hakatai.com is a nice bit of interface design (except...


Feb
21
2006
 5

Modeling


Measuring the siding Originally uploaded by cmwoodley. David is a hands-on kind of guy. For those of you coming to the open house tonight, be prepared to feast your eyes on the 3D model he's been working on. Measuring the siding Building the model From the east From the south If I have time today and tomorrow,...


Feb
21
2006
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Fire Up the Shrink Ray, I’m Ready to Move In!


After our open house, I had time to glue on the windows. This is at least slightly related to the mania that drives old men to build elaborate model trains in their basements. Good thing there is some practical value.


Feb
22
2006
 0

Small Adjustments


Building the model revealed an awkward spot around the front door. The steps to the front door don't make sense with the posts from the porch above, and because we're moving the front door to the left, the sidewalk doesn't line up with the door. Angling the porch fixes this and turns the two posts into a gateway. Christiane...


Feb
23
2006
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I Dream of Carport




Mar
19
2006
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A Triptych


Our older boy set out this weekend to author a graphic novel of our renovation. These are three select pages from that tome. In the first page we see the house before renovations. It is a memory of the first night the boys spent at my house (before it was "our" house). Fate sent an awesome hailstorm, which would have been...


Mar
24
2006
 2

If I had it to do over.


I would have been more demanding of the draftsman. Today we encountered the third boneheaded mess-up in the plans. The wall between the dining room and the kitchen is one complex piece of origami. You won't be able to tell when it's finished, but it's wacky. We asked if elevations were needed and he said they would understand...


Mar
26
2006
 3

Goldilocks and the Three Trims


Today I noticed our pending trim in the front yard. It looked small to me, so I snapped the tape measure off my belt (like a real-life architect) and measured it. Horrors. It's 3.5 inches. That's wrong. The old trim was 4.5, and I want the old trim back. According to the James Hardie web site, they have 3.5 and 5.5 inches....


Mar
27
2006
 9

Kitchen Design Mockup


On Saturday we popped over to the Tile Guy. The place was teeming with pregnant women and toddlers. We picked up our backsplash sample (CoffeeHouse Blend II). It was browner than we expected, but we decided to make it work. We picked out the floor and paint color in a flurry of decision making. Bamboo floors, white cabinets,...


Mar
31
2006
 14

Kitchen Design Mockup II


Well.....maybe the Coffee House Blend II will not work. Now we are looking at the Bungalo Blend from Modwalls for the backspalsh. Very cool and right for our house. I saw a link to Schoolhouse Electric on House in Progress. They have some very cool light shades that ride the line between nerdy and atomic in just the right...


Apr
6
2006
 2

Getting Realer and Realer


There has been a bunch of progess this week. Concepts, drawings, and notions have been popping up as realities everywhere. The tile sample arrived today (Bungalo Blend from Mosaic Tile Market ). It couldn't have been a better match for our paint colors. Austin, I think we have a kitchen design. And I took some photos...


May
5
2006
 0

The Color Purple


I've been a little worried about the particular shade of purple we picked out. It has to be right, or we're going to have to live with it wrong. "Oh, you're the people with the Barney house!" or "You mean the big lavender wedge on Grover?" I took a couple more trips to the paint store, and consulted with my wife, and my three-year-old....


May
10
2006
 4

The Prize Winner


Tub Shelf Idea Originally uploaded by daviderwin. After college, my first apartment on my own was a veritable dream. It was an oversized one bedroom with a study, around 900 enormous square feet. It had one very long, large bathroom with a non-jetted garden tub. At the foot of the tub was a shelf, about 12-18in...


May
17
2006
 6

The Angle of the Sun


Well, someone finally built the daylight application I had always wanted to build. (Not as pretty of course, and upside-down.) You can put in any latitude, longitude, and time of day and get the exact angle of the sun. And it graphically shows the sunrise and sunset times for every day of the year. So I plugged in the coordinates...


Jun
1
2006
 0

Interior Paint Colors


On my laptop the colors from Colorcharts.org are all kinds of wrong, especially the light ones, so I exaggerated them on the mockup. a. downstairs bath: Ralph Lauren Polaris (Home Depot) b. living room, office: ICI 924 Floating Lilly c. kitchen: ICI 797 Moonstone d. dining: ICI162 Red Maple (needs gray primer) e. all bedrooms...