Keep Your Project Top of Mind with a Project Vision Board
The best way to keep your project top of mind and to stay motivated and inspired throughout the home creation process is with a project vision board.
How To Successfully Achieve Your Big Project Goals
How do you accomplish your home construction project successfully? Here's the most important things to achieve your big project goals.
Using the Power of the Mind To Achieve Your Dream Project
The subconscious mind is a powerful thing. How do you use the power of the mind to help you achieve your big project goals?
Avoiding Cost Blowouts: 4 Hidden Costs of Building a New Home
There's nothing worse than finding out you don't have enough money to finish your project. Avoid cost blowouts by learning about these 4 hidden costs.
What Makes a House a Home
There's nothing more important than knowing what makes a house a home when creating your dream home. So, how do you create a home in a world of many houses?
OD 004 – Living a Life Under Construction
In this interview, Allison shares her story of building a home for herself and her family in Wisconsin. She talks openly about not knowing anything about the what it takes to build a house, about her personal design process, her 4 biggest fears and how she overcame each of them, and how she ultimately decided to write a book about the process.
How to Choose the Right Construction Materials & Products For Your Home
Material selection can present huge challenges. Here are 5 selection criteria for choosing the right materials and products for your home.
Quality, Cost & Time: How To Choose Between Competing Project Constraints
How do you balance the ever-changing demands of a project when you’re constantly having to make choices between quality, cost, and time constraints?
OD 003: The Design Process as a Spiritual Exercise
In this interview, Robin share's her story about designing and building her own house in Austin, TX. She talks about her design process, her general contracting work, and how she branched out from journalism to pursue a life of building houses.
OD 002: Net-Zero House on a Budget
In this interview, Eric and Alex talk about building the first net-zero house in Seattle, WA. They talk about the ups and downs and offer up their lessons learned in setting project goals, building a good team, and trusting in themselves and the process.