Buying a Fixer Upper?

Buying a Fixer Upper?

How a Pre-Purchase Consult Can Help I often receive inquiries from home buyers who are in the early stages of their house hunt in the New Jersey suburbs. They want a comfortable modern home that is suited to their taste and how they live and they know that they will...
What I did on my summer vacation

What I did on my summer vacation

Hiking the Freedom Trail   Our enthusiastic group at the beginning of the trail. Back-to-school time, and it’s almost a cliche that returning grade school students are asked to write about what they did during the summer. Here is mine: personal, nothing to do...
Lighting Essentials

Lighting Essentials

Tips for the Empty Nester-  Part 2 Practically the day I turned 40, I started needing reading glasses. I needed extra light to read a menu in a restaurant, and sometimes doubled up pairs to read fine print. Over time, I needed stronger magnification, and then finally...
Spatial Relationships in the Great Outdoors

Spatial Relationships in the Great Outdoors

Mountains, Forest, Sea Colorado Rocky Mountains. Cape Cod Seashore. A forest trail. Images immediately come to mind and they couldn’t be more different. The grandeur and majesty of the mountain peaks, the dense enclosure of the forest, the sweeping and calming views...
Architect to the Rescue

Architect to the Rescue

House Triage There’s a unique challenge in being called in to rescue a project from a flawed design. It’s different than doing a great design from the beginning, I have a given design to work with and am charged with coming up with fixes to give the house a creative...