Its been a long time coming, but we have started the EI House build starting with the dining room table.The goal was to create an epic center piece that would show case what is capable with the right mind set and a little time. I...
After a long evaluation, my wife and I decided to move from the San Francisco Bay Area and relocate to Seattle! Finding sites for the EI.House project was negatively affected by the astronomical and never ending raise in prices for all items across the board....
Unfortunately here is nothing to report on the house progress today.This last week was very hot in the Bay Area. This caused my solar powered, passive cooled Raspberry Pi 3 B to over heat. This caused the SD card to go into read only mode...
Not much to report this week. It has been hot here and most of my time on this project was spent inserting lighting fixtures and prices in the procurement Database.I've included a quick render of the back of the building with all lights on....
This week was all about lights. I've almost completed the light plan and integration. Part of the issue is that I'm not only designing lights into the drawing, I'm finding products that I can purchase as well.Master bath - I this section, to match...
Lights IIIII know the lighting would take time to complete and it has. his week, I spent time on the following:Zen Room lighting is now complete. As this room will be used for creating art for my wife, a high CRI of 95+ is required....
I'm working to get to the end of the Light selection and process soon. At this point I'm sure now most of the time Architects just place in lights in locations to get the affect they are after, then multiple groups of others are in...
Not much to report this week. I did spend a lot of time learning about the current situation of lights in general.The higher the CRI, the more watts that are required. So you can have high CRI, high lumen, and high watts or you...
This is the section of the house that I have deeded working on and waited as long as I could to start on it. Lighting defines the way a space looks and feels at night and can influence it's inhabitants in many different ways. I've...
I've been learning Revit and while a lot of companies products we intend to use use have moved on from AutoCad and Sketchup to providing BIM file, many companies still have yet to provide these files and/or are scared to proved them due potential of...