architect

Not-So-Big Remodeling

February 25, 2009

Last December I pre-ordered Sarah Susanka’s latest book, Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live,and it finally arrived yesterday! According to the Editorial Review: More Big Ideas from Sarah Susanka including hundreds of Not So Big ideas that can beautifully and affordably transform any home. Sometimes small changes can [...]

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Moving Up

September 5, 2008

I’ve alluded to some progress we’ve made recently, and here it is: we hired an architect for our upstairs space and first floor mudroom! The architect we chose has experience working with Morton Grove’s building department, and that’s one of the reasons we went with him. We didn’t want anything cutting-edge, nor did we need [...]

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In Gear

January 8, 2008
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Guess what? My last post got me going and I made some phone calls: first to the village for general information about building codes and then to an architect. Woo hoo! The village said that staircases should be three feet wide, but it sounded like they’d be somewhat lenient if it were a little smaller [...]

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