Tim Barron's (timbarron) Blog

   Entries that Blow Your Mind without Blowing your Budget One key to a beautiful Southern Home is the Entrance – you want a Beautiful Entrance that doesn’t blow the budget! Now I often tell my clients that the Entrance to their home is where they should spend some money.  You get a good aestheti...

  Come to the SEC Baseball Tournament this week in Hoover Spring is my favorite time of year, and baseball is my favorite sport.  And this is one week I look forward to every year, because the SEC Baseball Tournament is in Hoover! The first game starts on Tuesday morning, and the championship gam...

  Aging in Place – with a Twist   Those familiar with my blog may remember a post I made last year about Aging in Place.  Here’s a Southern Home I designed recently that handled Aging in Place in an unusual way. The clients, in their seventies, were caring for an aging parent while we were design...

    Graceful Master Suite Addition Sometimes a thoughtful addition can make a big difference in the way a home looks and feels!  This was a small home on a very special piece of land in Birmingham, Alabama – close to the city but far away from the city life!  Located in the bend of a small river,...

    Storm Repair turns Beautiful! I wanted to post a few of my recent renovation projects to show what you can do with a little imagination! This project started when one of last year’s tornados threw a big tree through the roof over the Kitchen.  Luckily the clients personified the old adage, “w...

Trees are Essential to a Southern Home This is such a beautiful time of year! The days are sunny but still cool, and the trees are budding out with their spring colors and flowers. I'm not really sure whether my favorite time of year is spring or fall - with the cooler temperatures and beautiful...

Local Materials for the new Southern Home - Part 3   For those who missed the rest of this series, this is a look at Local Materials that can be used when building a new Southern Home.   These are materials that are manufactured, harvested, extracted or recovered within 100 miles of Birmingham. T...

Local Materials for the New Southern Home - Part 2 For those who missed Part 1 of this Local Materials series, this is a follow-up to a February post "Can Southern Homes be Green?"which discusses the availability of construction materials that are manufactured, harvested, extracted or recovered w...

Local Materials for the New Southern Home - Part 1 In February I posted "Can Southern Homes be Green?", and it got me thinking about the availability of local materials today. So I did a little research... To recap my earlier post, LEED gives points in Materials and Resources if 20% of the materi...

Southern Home Design - Aging in Place My wife and I have spent most of this week dealing with an aging parent's emergency trip to the hospital, so aging is really on my mind. The ability to accommodate Aging in Place is one area where I believe today's southern homes are better than the old ones!...