Update 5/28/14: There's been a huge amount of interest in attending this tour, which is fantastic. Over 800 people have registered to at...

Six and a half weeks after submitting the permit application to the City of Portland, we have gotten the permit! Needless to say, I am thril...

The design process is taking much longer than I had anticipated. I thought that with my SketchUp model complete, it would just be a matter o...

Next, I sent out this model to three architects with CAD design skills who could put these plans into CAD in a format that would pass must...

Before I'd even closed on the property, I wanted to get a base model of the property done in SketchUp, a 3D modeling tool, to help me ge...