Looking to Buy or Design a Tiny House? Think About This
We’ve received several questions regarding small homes and tiny house design.
To help shed some further light on tiny house purchases or custom design, we highlight a question from a reader below.
A Tiny House can be a great alternative to investing heavily in traditional real estate but there are many factors that you’ll need to consider before hand.
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By Neil Silva
Coolest Cooler is One of the Best and Worst Kickstarter Campaigns
An Amazingly Inventive Approach to a Simple Product that Under Estimated its Delivery
The Coolest Cooler is one of the wildly successful Kickstarter Campaigns to bring you the next level of beverage entertainment at your summer beach outing.
Complete with a cutting board, blender, Bluetooth speaker and USB charger, the Coolest Cooler raised more than $13 million and broke Kickstarter’s funding record.
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7 Trendy Tiny House Floor Plans
We compiled a list of some of our favorite tiny house floor plans from various sources and assembled them in one place with additional perspective for you to check out.
With the growing popularity of tiny house floor plans hitting main stream, we encourage you to share your favorites.
From Do-It-Yourself projects to specialized tiny home companies, there is some pretty good resources available online for anyone to get started.
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Tiny House Village in Iowa Proposed for Des Moines Homeless
To respond to the situation which garners a reoccurring eviction notice from city workers who then have to clean up the mess, Joppa Outreach had teamed up with national architecture firm BSB Designs to address the issue.
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Newton, MA 3rd Floor Renovation for Master Bed & Bath
We have been working with a client in Newton, MA on developing a plan to renovate their existing 3rd floor into a new master bedroom and bathroom. The challenge is that the old space upstairs is really an odd combination of low roof slopes, stairway and wall placements.
To top it off the zoning regulations will be critical in reviewing to maximize the potential square footage they are allowed based upon Floor Area Ratio and the limitations they set on a single family residence zoned not to exceed 2.5 stories.
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New England Home Show 2016 – Ova’
Its official, we wrapped up our very first home show this past weekend. Overall we saw a great turn out and got to speak with many interested homeowners, business owners and developers.
What was great about exhibiting at this year’s New England Home Show in Boston at the Seaport World Trade Center was being able to quickly showcase our Services to those who were interested and feature our Portfolio of projects as reference.
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8TFive Studio Business Plan Interview
For the second year we have revised and submitted our business plan executive summary to Charrette Ventures Group’s (CVG, now AVEC) 2016 Architecture Business Plan Competition.
This is a great venue to continue to develop and stay on-top of business strategies for the firm. Sort of a kick in the butt from other tasks that get put on the shelf for “when I have time”.
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Donated Office Foosball Table to Non-Profit
After many foosball matches and two office tournaments at an old firm up in Boston, we picked up the table upon hearing they were relocating to a new space and didn’t utilize it much anymore.
With help from a few employees we disassembled the sturdy wooden legs and rolled it out to the parking garage. We then delivered the table to a local non-profit organization in Brockton.
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All Ready for our First Home Trade Show Event
Gearing up for the exhibit at this year’s 2016 New England Home Show in Boston.
Our new exhibition booth has arrived which features two 40″ TVs which we will be using to display not only our Portfolio of work thus far but also an animation featuring the process for conceptual design through to construction documentation.
If you are interested we will be using, for years to come, the Truss Booth from Displays2Go.
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Principles of Universal Design with Super Mario
Universal Design or sometimes as it might be thought about Accessible Design is an important piece in today’s urban landscape. How we use and interact with the world around us regardless of any sort of limitation, be it physical or otherwise, needs to accommodate everyone.
I recall being told several years ago that ‘good design’ was never really noticed because it is always something that just works. One of my favorite Steve Jobs quotes is “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
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