The first act of building a house is to walk onto the empty property with a helper and a long piece of string. The two of you will pull the string taut to create a straight line and then carefully position it to mark the exact edge of the house to be built. The end […]
ArchiTalk: My house in 200 years
I’m in the process of building a house for myself alongside the edge of a cliff. The best view of the Carquinez bridge is had from there, so that’s where the house is going. A couple of people have expressed concern about building so near a cliff. Like I’m not going to do something about […]