Jeff Pelletier
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Designing in 3D with SketchUp
Dreaming of your perfect floor plan and sketching in a notebook is a fine tradition that I fully support. But, if you're tech savvy enough, I suggest taking it to the next level, downloading SketchUp, and having fun with your ideas. Take your dreams and use them as inspiration in communicating with your architect.
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Steve Jobs as an Inspiration to Architects and Design
Steve Jobs, you'll be missed. You've inspired not only legions of software and hardware engineers, but architects around the world with your clear and focused passion for design. Here are some reasons why architecture and architects are better off for what he has done for the world.
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Bad Corners and Where to Transition Finishes
It doesn't seem like rocket science, but figuring out how to transition two different materials is something that is often done horribly wrong. Here's how to properly transition materials at corners and make your building vastly better looking.
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Ask a Designer, Custom Residential, Interior Design
Do the Shoes Match the Boards?
Do the shoes match the boards? As in, should the shoe on your baseboard match the baseboard or the floor? The baseboard! Here's how to ensure that you have nice, consistent baseboards and shoes that don't fight with your floors.
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An Architect’s Thoughts on Hospital Rooms
When an architect ends up in the hospital, even then they keep on observing and judging the spaces they occupy there.
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How to Create Great Outdoor Rooms
Creating an outdoor room isn't hard, but creating a GREAT outdoor room in the Northwest has some unique challenges. Here's what to look for.
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Use Your Words (Even When You Can’t)
Even in a profession where we quite literally draw pictures to communicate, words are incredibly important, too. Use them carefully, and precisely to get the job done right, and don’t forget that words can communicate very differently if they are said out loud versus written down, and there’s a time and place for both.
Channeling Experience: Storytelling in the Spaces We Design
Although we humans have invented new ways of sharing knowledge beyond the sharing of stories to one other over the firepit, storytelling is a key part of our culture. (Who doesn’t love a good story?) But beyond the stories we tell out loud, there is storytelling in spaces we design, too.
Unlikely Inspiration: The Strange Journeys of the Creative Process
A lot of times, unlikely inspiration solves your problems. To non-designers, it may seem a little crazy, but just as any odd thing can remind you of something else entirely, for designers, that experience often triggers their brains about a project they are working on, taking them on a mental journey towards a design solution.
Finding That “Eureka!” Moment in the Design Process
Parts of the architectural design process can (and must) be very precise, but there is also a messy, organic part of it. It’s the creative part of the game, and it’s often in that time that we find the “Eureka!” moment in the design process. When you’re working on your design, watch for it!
Designing a House into a Home
Emotion and personalization turn a house into a home, and when you're talking about designing your living space, this is incredibly important. Read about how our design process at Board & Vellum helps us make the leap from a great design (that is still just a house) to a home that our clients will love.
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