Sconce Choices
There are approximately 23 sconces in the house plan which means we have been on a sconce hunt this week. This sconce I would have chosen for the McMansion goes modern home re-remodel but that is not the look we want to recreate in the Palamino house. This Sconce would match the floor lamp that we […]
The Lot
We purchased our lot in September of 2013. We had been looking for homes and lots for several years. There had been a couple of lots for sale in Concord Hills over the years but they were either prohibitively expensive, or were under EMF towers. I drove around the neighborhood looking for the hidden “for […]
The Revisions
The Site With EVERY plan, stock or custom, there will be revisions. Sometimes, the plan gets changed so much it is a completely different plan by the time you’re done. When we first stumbled across the “Palamino” plan by Master Architect Robert Nebolon we immediately fell in love with everything about it, but several factors […]
The Plan
While squirrels, woodpeckers, and carpenter ants were running me out of my all-cedar bachelor pad I started looking at stock plans online. I probably looked through THOUSANDS of plans, and started to get a bit jaded until I came across Alternative home plans. http://www.alternativehomeplans.com The design above is what sparked our desire to build. There […]
The Dream
It started with a simple peruse of house plans sites as I had countless times. I had sold my first “bachelor pad”, an 80’s contemporary, within a week. The plan was to build an awesome modern house on a mountain top with an incredible 360 degree view. A quick reality check set in that no […]
McMansion Makeover Before and Afters
After getting cold feet on a lot out in a rural area, we decided to take on a MAMMOTH project of remodeling a “McMansion” foreclosure in one of Farragut Tennessee’s most prestigious neighborhoods. The home was built in 1993, no doubt as a “contractor special”. The home was littered with low grade tile, generic fixtures, […]
