Topic: Home Advice
Should I Build A New Home or Renovate My Existing Home?
This question is asked with increasing frequency as people are reluctant to leave their more spacious backyard for a new house with next to no yard. Any renovation or addition to your home has to solve your space problems and suit your style but most of all also meet your…
If My Home Were A Car – Thoughts on Affordable Housing
If my house were a car, I think it would be a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air. Not huge, suitable for a small family, and modestly stylish for the time. At 1207 square feet, it was a common three bedroom bungalow with one bath, sitting on a bare sixty foot wide…
Is a Secondary Suite Worth It?
Many people are looking at secondary suites as a way to make a new home more affordable. There are many questions to consider. Do you really want to share your new house? What design issues do you need to consider when designing your home plans? Do the rewards outweigh the…
Good-Bye Clothing Chaos
In today’s society people tend to have an abundance of clothing and they need a place to put all of these items. Properly organized closet space with storage solutions can turn a closet that looks like a tornado went through it into a masterfully organized showroom. Many master bedroom…
Damn that Ice!
By Eric Mazden Gone is the season of comfortable fall strolls and pumpkin spice lattes, and in is the season of blizzards, icy roads, and of course, ice damming. You may be familiar with this term if you are a home owner living in a colder climate such as Canada…
Is Bigger Always Better?
Size vs Practicality We live in a world where success is often tied to the size of our house or cottage, and in many cases square footage receives higher priority than quality design and materials. When we look back to the large ‘mansions’ built a decade or two ago, we…
Welcome to our new website….and blog – “Perspectives on Design”
Welcome! We look forward to engaging with you on a weekly basis as we bring you some of our “perspectives” on the ever-changing world of home design. We will provide thoughts and tips on everything from architectural styles to rainwater recovery systems to aging-in-place architecture. Let us be your…
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I just wanted to let you know some of the comments I've had about the house plans that you drew for our new home. Our builder says the blue prints are awesome to work with. He just can't believe all the detail you put into the house plans and it makes his life very easy when building the house. The truss builders said they really like building truss systems from Robinson Residential Designs because they are always right and have lots of detail.
Randy & Sheila
