Just for the record, this is making life just the tiniest bit complicated. Never mind - am confident that all will work out for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
"...the restraints thereon..."
Just for the record, this is making life just the tiniest bit complicated. Never mind - am confident that all will work out for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds.
Habemus architectum!
We've been thinking about this and talking about this and looking at pictures in magazines and asking people lots of questions and looking at house plans and making lists and so forth, but now we're ready to start moving forward. At left is a picture of the existing house and some of the building site.
I'm nervous because I've never done a project like this before. David has, so he knows what we're in for. Nonetheless, he's willing to do it again - isn't that great? Given the topography and the restraints thereon, and the magnitude of what we want to accomplish, we decided we needed an architect instead of a designer or instead of buying a ready-made house plan. So... again after talking and looking and cogitating, we've found our architect: http://www.jamesrosenbarger.com/. The process of picking an architect is as shrouded in mystery as is the process for picking a pope, hence the title of this blog post. David and I just went with what felt (and looked and sounded) right.
We are moving into the program-building phase of the project (read about it under Services on Jim's site).
At his suggestion, we are reading "A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander. At my friend Legene's suggestion, I've also bought a copy of "House," by Tracy Kidder.
Some of the things that we want to incorporate:
- A butler's pantry
- geothermal heating/cooling
- pool
- solarium
- appliance garages (isn't that a great term?) in the kitchen
- A couple of mosaics by our friend Monta
- screened porch
- unscreened patio with fireplace
What are we leaving out????
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