Building and renovation

Designing and building a custom home

A custom home is built from an architect's drawings over many months, and the builder's questions and the owners' choices come up at each stage. Here the house is one project: site visit photos, material samples, the builder's questions on a board, open to-dos and inspection dates.

The Achterberg House project in Thicket over a photograph of granite boulders and juniper on a high desert hillside: the health flag reading At risk, the building dates and five people, then six cards: the Message Board with the roof beams ready to ship on top, Site visits as nine photographs of the rammed-earth walls on the steep lot, the RFIs board with cards in With architect, With engineer and Owners to decide, To-dos with three lists on the progress chart, the Calendar with the core drilling next, and Samples as nine photographs of rammed earth, Douglas fir, blackened steel, concrete and mesquite.

Lucero Holloway Architects posts site news and the owners' questions on the Message Board and keeps the photos from each weekly site visit and the house's material samples in two Docs & Files grids. The builder's questions move from new to answered on Boards, three lists in To-dos sit on the progress chart, and the Calendar holds the core drilling, the roof beam delivery and the owners' site walk.

In this project

The tools on the project's page, in the order shown above, and what each one holds.

  • Message Board

    5 posts, the newest “The roof beams are ready to ship”

  • Docs & FilesSite visits

    9 pictures

  • BoardsRFIs

    15 cards in Triage, With architect, With engineer, Owners to decide, Answered and Done

  • To-dos

    Walls and roof (4 of 9 done), Windows and doors (2 of 7 done) and Site, water and power (5 of 7 done)

  • Calendar

    6 events, the next “Cores drilled from panel 7”

  • Docs & FilesSamples

    9 pictures

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