Cantilever Porch For Morning Coffee
We’re wrapping up a small porch on the front of this customer’s house in Knoxville, TN. It’s a small space but makes a great spot for them to enjoy the morning sunrises. For this porch, we doubled up 2x10s that extended into the framing of the house, taped the joists to prevent water damage and […]
Erosion Control To Create A Lawn To Play In
This little project started with a steep and dangerous slope and a family in Knoxville, TN that wanted some usable front yard for their young children to play in. We moved a lot of dirt, terraced the slope, added drainage swales and riprap to divert the water and catch basins and drain pipe to move […]
Building Stairs With Concrete
I love the process of building with concrete. You have to visualize what you want to build and then build the inverse… Or, in other words, build the opposite of what you want to create. Form boards always look like a bit of a crazy mess until you tear them away and reveal the finished […]