House Nerds
A post about posts….
I’ve been talking with clients quite a bit about posts lately. Anytime we are discussing a basement conversion (living space, ADU, bedroom, etc.), we get to look at and think about posts. Whether you want them or not, posts are a reality when you want to make the semi-subterranean space of your dreams! My typical …
Portland Traction Co – Local History in the Backyard
We just got back from an Eastern Oregon-to-Montana-and-back road trip and I was lamenting that during our house addition work that we didn’t uncover any dinosaur bones or historic relics. We visited the Painted Hills and Fossil, Oregon, to look for fossils and we did find some! While in Bozeman, we visited the Museum of …
Decommissioning a Cesspool in Portland
This is part of a longer story about doing a master suite addition project on my own home. I’ll add more posts as the project takes shape but you can start here to learn more about the remodel. A little story about cesspools One of the surprises when I got to permitting my project was the …