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We’re in Dwell again!
Our slideshow is in the front page of Dwell. On the print version, we are in the “Houses we Love” section. Coolness. I love, love Dwell… and they are awesome to deal with, on top of it.
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Me
back when I smoked… Stopping smoking is the best thing I’ve ever done for my son, the second, I think, is taking him to the KPM Institute’s SAM School I was elated at this TED conference video on education, besides being allowed to be free and self-initiate his education at SAMS, Kilean goes to ballet 3 [...]
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Sustainable Homes in the USA
We are proud to be in this fine book and I’m particularly happy that my pictures are getting published all over the place. I’m enjoying photography more and more, as I have been mentioning in this blog. I’m preparing an exhibition… I’ll post about it soon. Anyway, the focus of the book is sustainability. I [...]
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Dennis The Plumber
MJ and I have good luck with plumbers. Dennis Messer, a sub of Living Art Austin is rapidly winning our hearts. The Wolfe Den is not an easy plumbing job. In this slideshow, Dennis is proudly showing us several features of these fantastic bathrooms. Like the dual shower heads, the ability to shower all over [...]
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Creative Process Sneak a Peak
I was opening files and this Skype chat between MJ and I came up. We were in the same city, yes, but in different houses, late at night (noooo we didn’t have a fight… it’s a loooong story… to be told another time) We had a deadline on an article we had been asked to write [...]
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One Step at a Time…
The Wolfe Den stair progresses. The middle partition that ties into the rift cut white oak guardrail is in. And a preview of the Ipe treads. Kilean made it by with me today to check it out and generally reek havoc with everyone… more about “untitled“ Some nice progress! Here’s three weeks ago.
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Asphalt to Collect Solar Energy
Is anyone else as excited about this as I am?
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The House that Will Never be.
(Yet another one) For all those people that think the project on south 5 st, in Bouldin, is ours, no it isn’t! This is the house we had designed and permitted for South 5 St and that was never built.This was actually the second design for this extremely difficult lot. We posted the first design [...]
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Twin Peaks Explained
more about “Twin Peaks Explained“, posted with vodpod There seems to be a few questions about Twin Peaks on Apartment Therapy. I guess we can answer them here… Yes, the central piece seems to float off the walls. It’s structure is attached to the wall by brackets. Since the houses are not big, it allows [...]
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It must be Twin Peaks month:-) Good Life Magazine and now Apartment Therapy A house tour by Adrienne Breaux. Fantastic article and she took a bunch of pictures, there’s a pretty comprehensive slideshow. Wow, it’s SO great to see a good picture of that table. MJ can design furniture like nobody’s business. I keep wishing [...]
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Y mas y mas, y maaaas Lobo!
I’m just getting these up with the tile and the railing in the making and MJ already has taken more pics that will be coming up, he’s a MANIAC!!! more about “Y mas y mas , y maaaas Lobo!“, posted with vodpod
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Mas Lobo!
It’s really starting to show more like a finished house, I can’t wait to seriously photograph it! MJ took these teasers of the Wolfe Den on W Live Oak today: (oh, I have to remember to tell El Lobo! about Magic Erasers, in case he doesn’t know about them… those walls and doors and panels have [...]
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Amy Lemen wrote a wonderful article in this month’s issue of The Good Life Magazine. Download the article’s pdf HERE. And this reminds me of the .Inc article on the “other twin”, just to balance matters. That’s a pretty wonderful article too. If you happen to read these two articles you’ll [...]
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2008 is rocking for us… I’m posting this way late, but after sending around the newsletter with the big news, I keep forgetting to put it on the blog, finally I get to it! Et voila ici: MJ Neal, AIA wins Another Design Honor Award… and a Silver Medal as it was distributed on our [...]
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