How to Pick the Right Light Fixtures for Your Home

A home without good lighting loses it’s beauty as soon as the sun sets, but a home with great lighting never skips a beat. Give your home the shining personality it deserves with the right lighting. To choose the right lighting for your home, consider the following: Contemporary Living Room by Austin Architects & Designers …

Functional Architecture: The Beauty and the Brawn

When people look at homes in shelter magazines, they discuss how beautiful a space is, and how much they would love to have aspects A, B, and C in their soon to be constructed space. Yet, when you sit down with someone to discuss what features they would like in their home, they’re likely to …

Home For a Lifetime: Creating a Home For All Stages in Life

When designing a home, many people consider what they need right now, whether it’s a two bedroom starter home for a new couple, a small cabin for empty nesters, or a four bedroom house with a spacious layout and nice backyard for a growing family. Gelotte Hommas tries to leave as small of a carbon footprint …

The Artwork of Gelotte Hommas: Envisioning a Home

When you trust an architect to build your home, you’re trusting their creative eye. They often times will show you the plans that they have, but if those don’t go beyond simple sketches or blue prints, you’re stuck trying to let your imagination picture a place that you’re expecting to live in for the next …

Seattle thinking about reuse. Good or bad?

Could adapting office buildings to residential be a viable solution in downtown Seattle? That’s a questionPublicola.com recently asked given the city of Seattle’s goal of bringing more housing to downtown. The one recent example of a large-scale conversion from office to residential in Seattle that the author cites as working: The Cobb, at 4th and University. …