Designing and Building Your Dream Home

Climate Responsive Design. "One size fits all" custom home design is not in your best interest! with guests: Peter and Alan from Barley|Pfeiffer Architecture. For over 30 years, Barley|Pfeiffer Architecture's core strength is designing high-performance homes and buildings that are beautiful and timeless. Recognized for their attractive design, integrity, and ability to stand up to the elements – t...

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...

Our guest is Ryan Bloom. Ryan is the Co-Founder of Urban Bonfire. Urban Bonfire designs, and then pre-fabricates beautiful custom cabinetry for “kitchens, located outdoors”. You can learn more about Urban Bonfire at UrbanBonfire.com. Ryan discusses how a kitchen outdoors is so much more than just a few cooking appliances, it can be a gathering space that brings joy to your family members and close...

In this program AIA CRAN ® Executive Committee member, John DeForest AIA, walks us through some of the amazing tools available to help architects guide their clients through the design process. John DeForest received architectural degrees from Yale and Harvard then gained experience working for firms in San Francisco and Seattle and on the East Coast before starting his own practice in 1999. DeFor...

Guest: Eve Guilbaud, Architectural Manager, Loewen Windows and Doors Which windows and doors you choose for your home will probably be one of the most important decisions your make in the design of your custom home. Among other considerations, this decision will impact how much outdoor noise and heat penetrates into your home - as well as how much it costs to keep your home warm in the winter and...

Indoor Golf Simulators are one of the fastest growing markets for remodels and new home construction. Our guest, is Aaron Waltz, VP of Sales for Uneekor. Aaron will help us to understand why so many homeowners are now including indoor golf simulators in their homes. Uneekor, established in the US in 2015, is a leader in golf simulation equipment and technologies specialized in performance analysis...

In our show today, we will discuss cleaning and maintaining some of the surface materials your architect and custom builder will include to make your custom home, a work of art!   Examples of this might be the use of tile, stone or concrete for the floors, stainless steel for the kitchen counter-tops and/or copper for the hood system over your gas range. Also, understanding which materials hold up...

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...

Welcome to Designing and Building Your Dream Home. I’m your host, KT. If you are new to the program, this show is designed to educate its listeners on the industry’s best practices involving the design and construction of a single-family, custom residential home; your Dream Home. In this program we discuss an alternate building system for your new custom home, Rammed Earth construction. Rammed Ear...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Our guest today is David Coleman, of David Coleman Architects. David was named one of the 100 foremost residential architects in the world by Architectural Digest Magazine. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects distinguished College of Fellows, his work is highly published, and he has received numerous design awards. He describes the way he and his team work this way; “We believe...

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...

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...

Do you want to learn how to purchase many of the brand new architectural components you will need in your new home at up to a 50% discount? Then listen to this week’s show. In it, we discuss how certain architectural products can serve a dual purpose in your new home. We illustrate this concept with one of those dual use architectural products; custom-designed, stainless steel railing systems. I u...

Our guest is Lindsay Cullum-Colwell, AIA, Managing Principal of Cullum Homes. Lindsay is a second-generation builder, who brings a unique perspective to the field of custom home building in that she is both a builder and a licensed architect. Lindsay discusses how Cullum Homes manages subcontractor relationships to produce better results for her clients, how participation in a peer review group (N...

Welcome to Designing and Building Your Dream Home. I’m your host, KT. If you are new to the program, this show is designed to educate its listeners on the industry’s best practices involving the design and construction of a single-family, custom residential home; your Dream Home. In this program we discuss an alternate building system for your new custom home, Rammed Earth construction. Rammed Ear...

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 law school, but in the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...