Earlier this year I hosted two discussions regarding the process of residential design. Over the next few months I want to share with you a few clips from those talks. The second of them was held @ Switch on Fourth in Cincinnati in February. Switch offers exquisite expertise in lighting design and products as well as modern furniture. In this short video, my …
Housetrends March/April 2018
This is to say thanks to the great people at Housetrends Magazine for their piece on one of my recent projects, the Holwadel Residence in Newport, KY. Check out the article at https://www.housetrends.com/digital-issue%20target= (page 24); fine writing by Sarah Dills and wonderful photography by Ross Van Pelt! I love working at a high level of detail such as I was able to …
Tradition To Modernism
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Luber Residence
This past September I asked photographer Ross Van Pelt to meet me in Ft.Thomas KY at a house I designed some 20 years ago. I always loved this light-filled house but the four or five images of it taken with film photography had been lost. During the shoot I served as amateur photographer’s assistant. For about four hours one Monday, I …
Newport Traditional to Modern
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Drawings: Kitchen Design
From my continuing series of illustrations and architectural drawings…. In 2006, I received a fantastic commission for a house near Cashiers, North Carolina. I made this drawing (pen and color markers on newsprint) of one corner of the kitchen during the design phase. I wanted to show my client how the windows, cabinetry and natural light were going to work …
Drawings: Mountain Section
This drawing of my Mountain House design from 2006 is both a design elevation and a site section. (pen and ink, gray markers and pencil on yellow trace paper). A site section drawing describes a cut through the ground, in this case showing a building elevation beyond the cut. Although it is rendered with shade and shadow and depicted with …
Drawings: Kitchen Windows
This month I wanted you to see a drawing that I made to illustrate part of a large residential remodeling project. (#2 pencil and prismacolor pencils on white trace paper) This was done quickly, probably executed in about an hour or so. It was effective though both in helping me understand and showing my client the basic idea of this …
Drawings: AMC Pacer
While thinking about drawings I’ve made over the last 30 years to include in this drawing series, I came across a sketchbook that had this imaginary street scene in it (pencil on sketch paper). The drawing is dated May, 1992 and was done simply for the pleasure of it. A car that looks something like an AMC Pacer is zipping along …
Drawings: Family Room Interior
This month’s drawing (#2 pencil and colored pencil on yellow trace paper) was part of a design proposal for a residential addition and renovation project dating to 2001. This was to be a light filled space with large windows looking out to a wooded green lot. It is important to set up a drawing like this so that the observer’s …