Impracticum and a New Beginning

It’s been a long time since I’ve updated the blog on this project, but there’s plenty more coming soon! Here’s the scoop: Originally, this renovation was intended as a final project, or “practicum”  towards achieving my Sustainable Building & Design Certificate at Yestermorrow Design / Build School in Waitsfield, VT. Aside from the valuable learning process involved, the other personal goal of mine has been to renovate a...

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Less Is More (Part 3 of 3)

November, 2011. The Less is More class at Yestermorrow ended with a nearly all-night studio session that left me pretty exhausted. But when the time came to present our final projects, I couldn’t help but be fascinated by the imaginative solutions that my classmates had come up with for their small house projects. My own presentation looked like this: If you zoom into the pictures a little bit,...

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