Designing and Building Your Dream Home

This episode discusses why you should include ornamental metal work, created by a blacksmith or a metal fabricator, in your home. Our guest is Steve Lopes who has forged custom metalwork for Bruce and Jeannie Nordstrom, Bill Gates, John Nordstrom, Paul Allen, Larry Ellison and many others discriminating home owners throughout the US.    I am referring to things like custom-made door hardware, custom-made lighting fixtures, custom railing for your stairs and other artisanal metal work created by a skilled craftsman.   Custom architectural metal work can best be defined as functional artwork and Steve will help us to understand what goes into creating it, and why including it in your home should be an important part of making the home you live in, one-of-a-kind.

Our guest is Ryan Bloom. Ryan is the Co-Founder of Urban Bonfire. Urban Bonfire designs, and then pre-fabricates beautiful custom cabinetry for “kitchens, located outdoors”. You can learn more about Urban Bonfire at UrbanBonfire.com. Ryan discusses how a kitchen outdoors is so much more than just a few cooking appliances, it can be a gathering space that brings joy to your family members and close friends! UrbanBonfire.com

In this program AIA CRAN ® Executive Committee member, John DeForest AIA, walks us through some of the amazing tools available to help architects guide their clients through the design process. John DeForest received architectural degrees from Yale and Harvard then gained experience working for firms in San Francisco and Seattle and on the East Coast before starting his own practice in 1999. DeForest Architects is recognized for making the design process more engaging and inclusive and has projects in eight states ranging from 15 to 15,000 square feet. John co-founded CORA NW, a peer network and discussion forum for residential architects in the Pacific Northwest then helped launch AIA Seattle’s Small Practice and Residential Committee (SPARC) in 2016. He currently serves on the Executive Committee for CRAN ®, the AIA’s Custom Residential Architect Network. www.DeForestArchitects.com

Guest: Eve Guilbaud, Architectural Manager, Loewen Windows and Doors Which windows and doors you choose for your home will probably be one of the most important decisions your make in the design of your custom home. Among other considerations, this decision will impact how much outdoor noise and heat penetrates into your home - as well as how much it costs to keep your home warm in the winter and cool in the summer. My guest, Eve Guilbaud, Architectural Manager at Loewen Windows and Doors; walks us through which raw materials make for the best window and doors, and why. She also discusses how to identify custom windows and doors created by artisan craftsmen; versus windows and doors manufactured for a mass audience. Don’t make your choice based on brochures and internet images alone. To get the highest quality products, Eve teaches us what questions to ask a window and door manufacturer, and why these questions are important.

Indoor Golf Simulators are one of the fastest growing markets for remodels and new home construction. Our guest, is Aaron Waltz, VP of Sales for Uneekor. Aaron will help us to understand why so many homeowners are now including indoor golf simulators in their homes. Uneekor, established in the US in 2015, is a leader in golf simulation equipment and technologies specialized in performance analysis and enhancement. Uneekor is recognized for revolutionizing the industry by bringing together the sharpest team of passionate engineers, strongly committed to constant innovation and quality assurance. Products include launch monitors, simulators, performance software, and accessories to create the world’s greatest practice experience, empowering golfers to elevate their game. Uneekor knows what golfers want, but truly understand what they need. We are unrivaled, we are unmatched. We are Uneekor. Master Your Passion. www.Uneekor.com

In our show today, we will discuss cleaning and maintaining some of the surface materials your architect and custom builder will include to make your custom home, a work of art!   Examples of this might be the use of tile, stone or concrete for the floors, stainless steel for the kitchen counter-tops and/or copper for the hood system over your gas range. Also, understanding which materials hold up better over time, might affect your product choices during the design of your home. Whether you are living in the home of your dreams, or a home that works for now; you’ll gain a lot from today’s guest. RestorationArtechs.com (Website) and Barry’s Restore it All (YouTube) 760.804.5707 (office) 760.846.3323 (mobile)

Thinking of remodeling your home? Would you appreciate some expert guidance on how to maximize your Return on Investment (ROI)? In other words, remodeling your home in a way that allows you to minimize the money you spend on the improvements, while simultaneously maximizing the value of your home? Our guest today is Todd Tomalak, Principal Advisor of Building Products for Zonda, a housing market research and advisory group. Zonda produces research reports on various aspects of the housing market. These tools help buyers, home owners, builders, remodelers and product manufacturers make better informed decisions. In this program, Tom discusses Zonda’s highly respected Cost vs. Value Report (CvV). This FREE, annual report will tell you which remodel project investments are most valued (financially) by future property owners. For more information on the housing market research tools offered by Zonda go to: www.ZondaHome.com

Welcome to Designing and Building Your Dream Home. I’m your host, KT. If you are new to the program, this show is designed to educate its listeners on the industry’s best practices involving the design and construction of a single-family, custom residential home; your Dream Home. In this program we discuss an alternate building system for your new custom home, Rammed Earth construction. Rammed Earth Homes are beautiful, soundproof, fireproof, resistant to pests, and the are healthier than most traditional homes because they do not off-gas toxic fumes. Rammed Earth Homes are affordable, the construction materials are abundant and utilizing them in the construction of your custom home is very easy on the environment Rammed Earth Homes will also keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer with very little energy cost. To explain to us how to build a Rammed Earth Home and the tremendous benefits you will enjoy in owning a Rammed Earth Home is our guest, Bly Windstrom, of Earth Dwell, Ltd. Earth Dwell is a hands-on, design & build company that has been creating beautiful custom homes with Rammed Earth since 2006. Bly has completed projects from the interior of Alaska to the deserts of Mexico. He is also the co-founder of the North American Rammed Earth Builders Association. Bly Windstrom, EarthDwell, Ltd. www.EarthDwell.com bly@earthdwell.com 360-643-1013 North American Rammed Earth Builders Association http://nareba.org/ The Rammed Earth House David Easton https://www.amazon.com/Rammed-Earth-House-David-Easton/dp/1933392371/ref=asc_df_1933392371/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=533430521017&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16767844895899484509&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033458&hvtargid=pla-1389729171260&psc=1&mcid=f1bcd81709da3f27ad88cd3f276cc76a&gclid=CjwKCAiA-P-rBhBEEiwAQEXhH3ERoykT_Wp6w4GsKBX1jINxQApnx6jfTu5eFfR9PKxNyg2Wuh3t5RoCVFYQAvD_BwE

MethodHomes.net. Custom-designed, prefabricated, modular homes. If offsite fabrication and construction techniques can improve the quality of certain components of your new home; what about building the entire home offsite? Brian Abrahmson, Founder and CEO of Method Homes, a leader in prefabrication, helps us to understand modular construction and the impact it’s having on the custom home market.

Ted Clifton does much more than just create beautiful homes for his clients, he makes sure that the custom homes he builds not only look gorgeous, he makes sure they also deliver tremendous financial value to the owner. He does this by maximizing the value of every dollar spent during the construction of the home, and further, he minimizes the amount of money it takes for his clients to maintain their home, year after year. N this interview, Ted talks about how he is able to build new, super high-performance, custom homes for a fraction of the cost other custom builders charge to build a similar home. Contact TC Legend Homes here: https://tclegendhomes.com; https://powerhouse-designs.com/

Our guest today is Brian Scott, President of Illumina LLC. Brian is a trailblazer in Smart Home Technology and Lighting Design. With 20+ years of experience as a lighting designer and home automation integrator, Brian Scott has transformed countless homes and businesses into comfortable, efficient, and stunning spaces. Brian challenges the notion that smart homes require ground-up construction. He emphasizes the power of current technology, enabling seamless retrofitting of existing homes with smart features, eliminating the need for extensive renovations. He also highlights the disparity between basic LED bulbs and intelligent LED lighting systems. Brian showcases how high-quality, programmable LED lighting can create diverse lighting scenes, catering to any mood or occasion. Looking ahead, Brian is optimistic about the future of smart home technology, envisioning homes that are not only more comfortable and efficient but also offer enhanced enjoyment and convenience. www.illuminallc.com

Each year the National Association of Homebuilder sponsors, the International Builder Show. It's known simply as the Builder's Show. It is the largest trade show focused exclusively on residential construction in the United States.                                                The Builders Show features the latest and greatest products and services associated with residential construction anywhere in the world. Our guest, Ted Mahoney of Windjammer Construction, helps us to understand this model home, the new American home, and how, seeing it and understanding how it was built and the products used in its construction, can help you in the design and building of your new home or in the remodel of your home. So if you're thinking of remodeling your home or building a new home sometime in the future. You definitely want to attend the Builders Show! Guest: Ted Mahoney, Windjammer Construction The New American Home: TNAH.com The 2024 TNAH Team: https://tnah.com/team The National Association of Home Builders: NAHB.org The NAHB Leading Suppliers Council: https://www.nahb.org/nahb-community/councils/leading-suppliers-council

Our guest today is David Coleman, of David Coleman Architects. David was named one of the 100 foremost residential architects in the world by Architectural Digest Magazine. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects distinguished College of Fellows, his work is highly published, and he has received numerous design awards. He describes the way he and his team work this way; “We believe that a well-designed home sets the scene for a better life. We design our client’s homes in a way that instills warmth, joy, connection to the outdoors, and a sense of belonging. Our holistic approach merges architecture, interiors and landscapes. David will walk us through a few of the homes he’s designed, describing how we crafted them. Although great design must take the lead in the creation of a custom home, David helps us to see that energy systems like geo-thermal, radiant flooring, solar panels and heat recovery ventilation can be almost invisibly built into a custom home making your dream home, not just a custom home, but a high-performance custom home. You can learn more about his work at his website; DavidColeman.com. His phone number is 206.443.5626 or you can reach him via email at dc@davidcoleman.com. Guest:                                 David Coleman, FAIA Bio:                                       David has over 40 years of experience in the field of architecture and has completed buildings and projects in eight states. Early in his career, David worked in the office of AIA Gold Medalist Michael Graves. He is a registered architect and NCARB certified for reciprocity in all fifty states. David’s work has received numerous design awards and is widely published in books, magazines and on-line, including Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, The New York Times, ArchDaily, Design-Milk and Curbed. In the 1990's he won a prominent commission in the highly acclaimed town of Seaside, Florida. Shortly after he was named one of the 100 foremost residential architects in the world by Architectural Digest. In 2006 he won the Design Achievement Award for Architecture, and in 2011 he was elevated to the American Institute of Architects prestigious College of Fellows for, “significant contributions to architecture and society on a national level”. Most recently he won the Gray Award for Residential Architecture. David has served on an advisory board for the “House as Architecture” program at the University of Washington, where he has lectured, served as guest critic and taught graduate design studio. He has served on a number of advisory boards and committees, including the Solar Association of Vermont, and Allied Arts of Seattle, where he was co-chair of the Urban Environments Committee. While in Vermont he spoke at the Governor’s Conference on Design & the Built Environment. An active member of the American Institute of Architects, David has spoken at AIA events, is past co-chair of the AIA Honor Awards for Washington Architecture, and was a founding member of SPARC. Website:                            davidcolemanarchitects.com Contact:                             206.443.5626: dc@davidcoleman.com

In this program we discuss the advantages of restoring and repurposing existing structures; converting an abandoned warehouse into a custom home, and converting an existing home into an office. We also discusses how the time my guest spent practicing architecture in Japan influences the homes he designs.   My guest is Warren K. Lloyd AIA, LEED AP. Warren has been practicing architecture for 20+ years. He received a Masters of Architecture from the University of Washington in 1991. During his graduate work, he was a Monbusho scholar at Kobe University in Japan for 2 years.   Warren's personal interest in architecture has led him to seek innovative and sustainable uses of traditional wood construction in his projects located throughout the Intermountain West, the Pacific Northwest, and Japan. He worked in Seattle and Japan for several noted architects, including NBBJ, The Miller-Hull Partnership and Thomas L. Bosworth FAIA.   Warren was named a partner of Lloyd Architects in Salt Lake City in 1998, managing partner in 2000, and principal in 2001. Warren is the 2023 AIA CRAN National Chairman and Lloyd Architects was named 2022 Firm of the Year by AIA Utah.

Thinking of remodeling your home? Would you appreciate some expert guidance on how to maximize your Return on Investment (ROI)? In other words, remodeling your home in a way that allows you to minimize the money you spend on the improvements, while simultaneously maximizing the value of your home? Our guest today is Todd Tomalak, Principal Advisor of Building Products for Zonda, a housing market research and advisory group. Zonda produces research reports on various aspects of the housing market. These tools help buyers, home owners, builders, remodelers and product manufacturers make better informed decisions. In this program, Tom discusses Zonda’s highly respected Cost vs. Value Report (CvV). This FREE, annual report will tell you which remodel project investments are most valued (financially) by future property owners. For more information on the housing market research tools offered by Zonda go to: www.ZondaHome.com

Do you want to learn how to purchase many of the brand new architectural components you will need in your new home at up to a 50% discount? Then listen to this week’s show. In it, we discuss how certain architectural products can serve a dual purpose in your new home. We illustrate this concept with one of those dual use architectural products; custom-designed, stainless steel railing systems. I use this product to introduce you to a trending construction process known as “offsite construction” or “prefabrication”. We discuss what prefabrication is, and how the prefabrication of some of the architectural components in your home can really benefit you. By the way…I work for AGS Stainless, Inc. (AGS), and 100% prefabrication is the process we use to fabricate our railing systems. To learn more about AGS Stainless, go to AGSstainless.com.

Our guest is Lindsay Cullum-Colwell, AIA, Managing Principal of Cullum Homes. Lindsay is a second-generation builder, who brings a unique perspective to the field of custom home building in that she is both a builder and a licensed architect. Lindsay discusses how Cullum Homes manages subcontractor relationships to produce better results for her clients, how participation in a peer review group (NAHB Builder 20 Clubs) benefits both the builder and the homeowner, and how including high-performance products in the homes Cullum builds (like Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) and Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERV)); remove dust from the home, improve indoor air quality and eliminate outdoor noise from entering the home. Cullum Homes is recognized as one of the premier custom home builders in the US, being named custom home builder of the year in 2018 by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Lindsay has served as both Executive Committee member and as past president of the AIA’s National Custom Residential Architects Network

Welcome to Designing and Building Your Dream Home. I’m your host, KT. If you are new to the program, this show is designed to educate its listeners on the industry’s best practices involving the design and construction of a single-family, custom residential home; your Dream Home. In this program we discuss an alternate building system for your new custom home, Rammed Earth construction. Rammed Earth Homes are beautiful, soundproof, fireproof, resistant to pests, and the are healthier than most traditional homes because they do not off-gas toxic fumes. Rammed Earth Homes are affordable, the construction materials are abundant and utilizing them in the construction of your custom home is very easy on the environment Rammed Earth Homes will also keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer with very little energy cost. To explain to us how to build a Rammed Earth Home and the tremendous benefits you will enjoy in owning a Rammed Earth Home is our guest, Bly Windstrom, of Earth Dwell, Ltd. Earth Dwell is a hands-on, design & build company that has been creating beautiful custom homes with Rammed Earth since 2006. Bly has completed projects from the interior of Alaska to the deserts of Mexico. He is also the co-founder of the North American Rammed Earth Builders Association. Bly Windstrom, EarthDwell, Ltd. www.EarthDwell.com bly@earthdwell.com 360-643-1013 North American Rammed Earth Builders Association http://nareba.org/ The Rammed Earth House David Easton https://www.amazon.com/Rammed-Earth-House-David-Easton/dp/1933392371/ref=asc_df_1933392371/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=533430521017&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16767844895899484509&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033458&hvtargid=pla-1389729171260&psc=1&mcid=f1bcd81709da3f27ad88cd3f276cc76a&gclid=CjwKCAiA-P-rBhBEEiwAQEXhH3ERoykT_Wp6w4GsKBX1jINxQApnx6jfTu5eFfR9PKxNyg2Wuh3t5RoCVFYQAvD_BwE

SCOTT SEVON, GMR, GMB, CGP, CGR, CAPS Scott's ascent to becoming a Custom homebuilder and remodeler began when he was a child growing up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. His father, an accomplished carpenter, often took a young Scott to his construction sites. "I guess you could say from an early age, building has been in my blood. I went to college, even thought about law school, but in the end, I decided I really wanted a career in construction." While working for a northwest suburban builder as a project manager, Scott began building homes on his own. Ultimately, he decided to leave the builder and on June 9, 1983, Sevvonco, Inc. was born. For the next 25 years, Scott and his team built well over 260 homes with a cumulative total over $500,000,000.00. Although many of these have been high-end residences located primarily in the North and Northwest suburbs, there have been exceptions.  "At one point or another, we've built homes ranging in size from 1,400 square feet to 30,000 square feet and prices ranging from $150,000.00 to over $5.5 million and in locations from Oakbrook to Huntley," says Scott. While Scott is known primarily for his design/build custom homes, there is an ever-growing design/build remodel division that takes on projects of any size. Scott has remodeled, renovated and built many additions over the years. Scott is very active in the Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago, for which he serves on many committees. He is also involved in the National Association of Home Builders Remodelers Council where he currently or has served on many committees such as: Trustee on the Remodelers Council Board, Chairman of the Remodelers Council Membership & Communications sub-committee, Chairman of the Remodelers Council, Chairman of the CGR Board of Governors, Chairman of the CAPS Board of Governors, NAHB Build-Pac Trustee, Chairman of the NAHBR Green sub-committee, NAHB Design Committee, and NAHB Convention Committee. Scott is one of a very few “Senior Life Directors” of the NAHB Board of directors.  He is dedicated to maintaining standards and healthy practices throughout the building industry and is fanatical about professionalism. His peers seem to gravitate toward him as he is always being consulted by industry professionals and is continually elected to positions of influence throughout the industry. The Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago awarded Scott Builder of the Year in 2004 and Remodeler of the Year in 2006. Scott was also awarded from the National Association of Builders/Remodelers these awards for the entire nation, 2006 NAHB Graduate Master Builder of the Year, 2010 NAHB Graduate Master Remodeler of the Year, 2015 NAHB CAPS of the Year and the 2016 NAHB CGR remodeler of the year. Scott is also very active in Green and Healthy building projects. On these projects, Scott works with the American Lung Association and Health House. In 2001, Sevvonco built Illinois’ first, award winning, American Lung Association Health House, in Glen Ellyn. Sevvonco, Inc. is also the first ever Illinois American Lung Association approved builder. In 2010, Scott was a consultant for the Museum of Science and Industry “Smart House: Green and Wired” that opened on the museum property. In the fall of 2008, Scott teamed up with Remodel One to create MAW CHICAGO LLC and became the managing partner in Belgravia Plus LLC, a renovation firm specializing in renovation within the city limits of Chicago. MAW CHICAGO LLC is extremely active in the city of Chicago’s renovating market. MAW CHICAGO LLC is also recognized by HOUZZ as a premier builder and remodeler.

Growing older doesn't have to mean selling the home you love! Welcome to the Principles of Universal Design. In this episode we discuss with Kate Dailey, AIA the importance of designing your custom home in a way that allows for any necessary future mobility modifications to be handled quickly, and with minimum expense!