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Southern Home Design - the Grand Staircase As I think about it, one of the features that makes a Southern Home grand is a Grand Staircase. A Southern Home doesn't need a staircase to be southern. In fact, most of the southern homes I remember from my youth didn't have stairs - they were one level...
02/18/2011
Snow Day in Hoover, Alabama - February 2011 This year we have had a lot more "winter weather" than we have had in the last few years.  Of course our infrequent snow storms are typically ICE storms so the whole city of Birmingham just SHUTS down. The last time we had winter weather my wife and I w...
02/10/2011
Southern Home Design - Can Southern Homes be ‘Green'? Part 3 In my 2 previous posts on this topic, I covered how ‘Green' the old Southern Homes were. As a benchmark, we were using the 9 certification categories of LEED - Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy & Atmosphere, Materials & Resour...
02/10/2011
Southern Home Design - Can Southern Homes be ‘Green'? Part 2 When I design Southern Home Plans for my clients, the use of energy and stewardship of natural resourses is always a big consideration. In my last post, I was exploring how the old Southern Home would rate using the 9 LEED certification...
02/06/2011
Southern Home Design - Can Southern Homes be ‘Green'? Part 1 Recently, I was talking with an Architect friend who asked if a Southern Home could be ‘Green'.  My reply was immediate - "Of Course it can!"  In fact, I believe the old Southern Homes were the epitome of Green. To illustrate my point, ...
02/05/2011
Southern Home Design - Porches that Rock! The comments I received on my last post underscore that porches are a vital link between the southern home and its community. A simple wall with windows does little to connect the home - and the family inside - with the neighborhood outside. The porch is ...
01/31/2011
Recently someone was looking at pictures of a home I had designed, and they commented that it was a "fine southern home". I hear that often, and I take it as a compliment. But I'm not sure that I initially set out to design southern homes - it's really a by-product of being southern and being an ...
01/28/2011
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