Designing and Building Your Dream Home

On this episode KT welcomes Peter Pfeiffer, FAIA and Alan Barley, AIA. Alan & Peter are Founding Principals of Barley/Pfeiffer, a well-respected architectural firm in Austin, Texas. They are authors of the book; Buying Your New Home, A Guide to Home Buying, Second Edition.  Buying or building a home is the biggest financial decision most people ever make — and there's far more to it...

Michele Grace Hottel, AIA I has been practicing Architecture with her namesake firm since 1994 and is licensed in the states of California and Arizona. Prior to that she worked in Architecture and Engineering firms before, during and after attending Cal Poly, Pomona for Architecture. Ms. Hottel has been a Commissioner and Subject Matter Expert for the California Architects Board, served three term...

This program is focused on some of the things residential architects and custom home builders can do to improve their firms marketing success - resulting in strong sales growth. HOUZZ has a tool called HOUZZ Pro that many builders and architects are finding success with. Today’s program will help these building industry professionals better understand how this tool can help them to really “level u...

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 la...

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 r...

In this show we make the case for creating your dream home from an historic home, a Landmark home. These are properties built from the 1950’s back to the Victorian homes built in the 1800’s. Remodeling Landmark homes is not for the faint of heart, and yet, those who undertake this journey will be rewarded with a home that will be recognized by all as an architectural treasure in their community. O...

Hiring a Residential Designer to help you bring your Dream Home to Life! Featuring: Molly McCabe, Principal Designer, McCabe by Design, LLC See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Welcome to Designing and Building Your Dream Home. Our guest today is Christina Lindal, President of Lindal Cedar Homes. Lindal is a 3rd generation, family owned custom home builder. Founded in 1945, Lindal has delivered more than 50,000 homes to families worldwide. In today’s program, Christina describes several home design styles, including “post and beam”. She also explains the advantages offer...

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....

My guest today, Brandon Bryant, discusses just how important elegant design is to the successful creation of a custom home. A home you can be truly proud of! As he says; “Red Tree builders builds beautiful custom homes - that also happen to be high-performance homes.”    In this interview, Brandon discusses the importance of having your builder address a number of essential elements of a successfu...

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 c...

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! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice a...

According to recent study’s, more than 90% of residential new construction utilizes wood framing. In this episode, Patrick Rasmussen, a construction industry expert and the owner of Moose River Homes explains why, instead of wood, you should ask your residential architect and your custom builder to use steel to frame your new home. It can bring down the cost of the materials being used to build yo...

Welcome to Designing and Building Your Dream Home. I’m your host, KT. Our guests today are Melissa and Joseph Irons, of Irons Brothers Construction. Irons Brothers is a multi-award winning, family business, specializing in custom remodels. They have built a reputation over the past 20 years as one of the Premier Home Remodeling companies in their State. Joseph & Melissa will share with us some...

Our guest today is Rose Quint, who has a new book out. Rose is the Assistant Vice President for Survey Research at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) where her responsibilities include planning and conducting industry surveys, specifically in the areas of builder sentiment, remodeling, and housing affordability. Periodically, the NAHB conducts a survey of home buyers to better unders...

This episode of the show discusses just how important it is to have an energy rater work with your architect and builder in the design and construction of your custom home. Energy raters will help your builder to measure the energy efficiency of the home they are building for you, against the standards of performance that RESNET has established for residential construction. Engaging the services o...

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 anywher...

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, cust...

Hiring a Residential Designer to help you bring your Dream Home to Life! Featuring: Molly McCabe, Principal Designer, McCabe by Design, LLC See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

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...

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 t...

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+ ye...

In this show we make the case for creating your dream home from an historic home, a Landmark home. These are properties built from the 1950’s back to the Victorian homes built in the 1800’s. Remodeling Landmark homes is not for the faint of heart, and yet, those who undertake this journey will be rewarded with a home that will be recognized by all as an architectural treasure in their community. O...

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...

Welcome to Designing and Building Your Dream Home. Our guest today is Christina Lindal, President of Lindal Cedar Homes. Lindal is a 3rd generation, family owned custom home builder. Founded in 1945, Lindal has delivered more than 50,000 homes to families worldwide. In today’s program, Christina describes several home design styles, including “post and beam”. She also explains the advantages offer...