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What is Passive House?
There are a lot of terms out there in the world of green building – it can be overwhelming! In this post, we explore Passive House. What is it? What does it mean to build that way? And, why would you want to?
Learn more.Ask a Designer, Commercial
How Do We Design Office Spaces?
While designing commercial office spaces is a different animal from designing single-family homes, there are some key things that carry through, and those are some of the exact things that make for some of the best office spaces.
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Best of Houzz 2014
We are so excited to announce that Board & Vellum has been honored with two Best of Houzz awards for 2014, in the categories of Design and Customer Satisfaction! We love our clients, so it certainly feels good to learn that they like us, too! Thanks, everyone!
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Custom Residential, News
A House Built for LEGO
While the title of this post isn't 100% true (there were other driving factors aside from the wonderful little plastic bricks), this Houzz article does a great job of walking you through Jeff's recent remodel of his own house.
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Custom Residential
Bungalow West Project Review
Bungalow West is one of our favorite projects. Here, Jeff shares some of the behind-the-scenes details of how the design evolved, and there are even some amazing "before" and "after" shots.
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Custom Residential
An Architect Remodels His Own House
In case you didn't already know, the Seattle Box Remodel project is actually Jeff's own house. Here, he shares some of the stories behind the design challenges the house presented and explains why they made the design choices they did along the way.
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Thoughts for the New Year
2013 has already come to a close, and we've been so busy that we only now have the chance to write our year-end recap! Better late than never, here it is!
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Some Seattle Love for Everyone
Having recently returned from a trip back to the town he grew up in, Jeff writes about the experience in the light of having now moved to exciting, vibrant Seattle, adopting it as his new home.
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Walnut and Carrera Marble Kitchen Preview
It's time for another construction update! This time, it's for our Chef's Kitchen project, which is coming along beautifully. Check out these progress photos that will get you all excited (like us) to see the project completed!
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Here are a couple of posts to get you started. Of course, it’s hard to choose, so feel free to poke around; we hope to have a little something for everyone. And, if you have a burning question you’d like us to cover in a future post, please let us know!
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