Posts from the ‘Elements of Design’ Category

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  • Secret weapons of design
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  • My New York Story
  • What the Napa earthquake taught me
  • Napa: the earthquake aftermath
  • My eclectic house
  • The wind is rising. We must try to live.
  • Back to Mexico
  • Mister Science
  • Driving like an Italian

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  • Secret weapons of design - 01/15/15
  • The rise and fall of Penn Station - 12/07/14
  • My New York Story - 11/30/14
  • What the Napa earthquake taught me - 11/30/14
  • Napa: the earthquake aftermath - 10/01/14
  • My eclectic house - 07/22/14
  • The wind is rising. We must try to live. - 05/16/14
  • Back to Mexico - 04/24/14
  • Mister Science - 04/24/14
  • Driving like an Italian - 04/24/14
  • Yosemite to myself (sort of) - 10/29/13
  • My day at the America’s Cup - 10/29/13
  • Pompeii, Italy – my kind of town - 10/29/13
  • Croatia visited - 10/29/13
  • Elsie Robinson’s Benicia - 10/29/13
  • Q and A with the high school kids - 10/29/13
  • Who will speak for design review? - 10/29/13
  • Features I want in my next house - 06/24/13
  • Bogart slept here - 06/24/13
  • My kitchen remodel a year later - 04/16/13
  • Five days in the Grandest of Canyons - 12/05/12
  • The house-move makes its final landing - 10/11/12
  • Notes from the Coconut Coast - 09/24/12
  • At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - 05/26/12
  • How Venice got its mojo - 05/04/12
  • A paint color by any other name - 03/21/12
  • What I learned while designing for First Street - 02/17/12
  • Favorite Architects - 01/10/12
  • My two smoke detector stories - 10/22/11
  • The Great Kitchen Remodel of 2011 - 08/07/11
  • Building them like they used to - 07/21/11
  • The website the architect built - 05/10/11
  • Benicia Magazine – An Interview with Steve McKee - 05/04/11
  • My Benicia fixer-upper - 04/07/11
  • Smokestack Benicia – PART 3 - 03/02/11
  • At the corner of West X and 15th Street – PART 2 - 01/26/11
  • ‘48ers: Benicians rushed for gold before it was cool – PART 1 - 12/22/10
  • A tale of two buildings - 11/26/10
  • A time when I could slay dragons - 10/28/10
  • Remodeling your Southampton home - 10/07/10
  • Sweet Sistine - 08/25/10
  • Why we travel: Finding the Rome within - 07/28/10
  • Confessions of a lighting junkie - 06/23/10
  • A day in the life of the architecture student - 05/25/10
  • Job site tips I learned the hard way - 05/04/10
  • More than just a pretty picture - 03/25/10
  • A Benicia sense of place - 02/18/10
  • Aging in place - 01/27/10
  • Why we travel: The hidden Puerto Vallarta is there for the taking – PART 4 - 12/24/09
  • How we lost our bit of paradise to someone’s greed – PART 3 - 12/01/09
  • The new rules for downtown - 10/25/09
  • A remarkable San Francisco bike ride reveals the city - 09/20/09
  • How to almost miss out on architecture school - 08/23/09
  • Visiting Italy in the movies - 08/02/09
  • Secret weapons of design - 06/26/09
  • Germany, the war, and why we like life in Benicia - 05/24/09
  • A hundred and sixty years in Benicia - 04/23/09
  • On dream houses in Mexico and life lessons – PART 2 - 03/12/09
  • Building a house in Mexico – the reality – PART 1 - 02/15/09
  • Phil Joy’s house move enters the home stretch – PART 4 - 01/15/09
  • Fireplaces: New rules - 12/26/08
  • A Benician in L.A. - 11/27/08
  • Why I’m doing my addition now - 10/22/08
  • Mont St Michel – must see - 09/17/08
  • Americans in Paris - 08/20/08
  • Front porch city - 07/30/08
  • On turning fifty, crescent moons, and Frank Lloyd Wright - 05/30/08
  • Building green, getting real - 04/22/08
  • Benicia versus the country club - 03/27/08
  • Stone arches totally rock - 02/27/08
  • These are a few of your favorite things - 01/23/08
  • Another vintage house is delivered to Benicia – PART 3 - 01/06/08
  • How First Street keeps us together - 12/16/07
  • You, the tile shop, the decision - 11/22/07
  • A Benician in New York - 10/23/07
  • Figuring out how much your building project will cost - 09/19/07
  • Why we travel: The city of Prague is a marvel – who knew? - 08/21/07
  • The “it” moment with my new house - 07/22/07
  • Dream-house for rent (no kidding) - 06/20/07
  • Artist Open Studios reveal creative undercurrent alive in Benicia - 05/20/07
  • Rome – 1982 – five weeks - 04/22/07
  • Haiku moments and performance art in the comfort of your own home - 03/02/07
  • Countertops: We live in a stone age - 01/28/07
  • The day the Thompson-Joy house came to town – PART 2 - 12/31/06
  • The revenge of the unpaid carpenters (and other true stories) - 12/03/06
  • A house move for the ages – PART 1 - 10/29/06
  • My best five seconds at design school - 09/24/06
  • Getting bids: “The rules” - 08/17/06
  • Benicia’s growth rings - 07/23/06
  • The well-considered window seat - 06/18/06
  • Hearst Castle – residential design mind blower - 05/14/06
  • San Francisco April 1906: Ordinary people in extraordinary times - 04/16/06
  • Dog handling at the Iditarod - 03/17/06
  • Your house’s defense against rising energy costs - 02/12/06
  • Not your father’s living room - 01/08/06
  • The best design book ever - 12/11/05
  • Further adventures in the Eternal City - 09/23/05
  • Lessons from Rome - 08/28/05
  • Roadside from the Tour de France - 07/31/05
  • My accidental getaway room - 06/09/05
  • Lighting Basics: It’s the layers - 05/08/05
  • Architecture school: The reality - 04/10/05
  • Southampton concrete slab floors: What’s to know - 03/13/05
  • Some basics to know before you build - 01/30/05
  • News Flash: Good builders earn their money - 12/26/04
  • The wonderful failure that is Benicia - 11/14/04
  • Energy laws and your building project - 09/26/04
  • Architecture goes to the movies - 08/14/04
  • What’s really up with a 2nd floor addition - 07/11/04
  • Home design in earthquake country - 05/30/04
  • Sightlines make a huge impact - 05/02/04
  • Meeting of the minds in your design - 04/11/04
  • Welcome to the new column - 03/21/04