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Journal

Notes on sites, materials and permits.

Written by the studio for owners planning a house, an addition or a second dwelling.

Survey stakes with orange flags on a golden hillside lot below two oaks

Site

What a site walk tells us before we draw a line

A limewash bathroom with a stone tub under a long window

Accessory dwellings

Accessory dwelling units, in plain terms

Board-formed concrete meeting silvered cedar and a black steel window frame

Materials

Why we pour board-formed concrete

A soil test pit showing topsoil, clay and pale bedrock in its cut wall

Site

Building on a hillside lot: the first three questions

Silvered cedar siding beside new honey-coloured cedar boards

Materials

Cedar that silvers, and why we let it

The studio workshop with oak boards, a long bench and cabinet doors

Process

Open-book construction, explained

A weathered hay barn with a rusted roof below the foothills

Conversions

Turning a working barn into a home

A lived-in living room in morning light, glass wall open to the oaks

Process

What happens in the first year after the keys

Sample site by Loomwest

Sample site: this is a made-up number for a fictional business, so tapping it doesn’t place a call.