3512 Marcus Avenue, Newport Beach, CA

July 25, 2011

Custom Contemporary Style Home 3512 Marcus Avenue, Newport Beach, California Late last year I was introduced to my new client Sissi Cruse by Brent Morehouse of Morehouse Construction to help her design a new single family contemporary home for a lot she had purchased on the water at the corner of Marcus Avenue and 36th street […]

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Tenant Improvement Projects

May 4, 2011

Tenant Improvement Projects The following is a short list of some of the Tenant Improvement projects I have done over the last couple of years. I was very surprised to see just how many commercial projects I had done lately. However my biggest commercial project is a new two story office building for The Press Forge Company […]

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1040 Pescador Drive, Newport Beach, CA

April 30, 2011

1040 Pescador Drive, Newport Beach, California In my last post for this project, I showed you how David Peter’s team from Peter Drilling and Contracting, Inc. constructed the forms for the elevated garage slab.  At last they poured the garage slab. I was able to break away from my drafting table, oops I mean my computer, […]

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1040 Pescador Drive, Newport Beach, California

April 21, 2011

1040 Pescador Drive, Newport Beach, California I am sorry that I have not been able to stay on top of the progress of this project here in beautiful Newport Beach, California. I have been so busy wrapping up plans for two new houses and an office building as well. That hasn’t stopped me from stopping by the […]

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1040 Pescador Drive, Newport Beach, California

March 30, 2011

1040 Pescador Drive, Newport Beach, California Hey it didn’t rain so David Peter of Peter Drilling and Contracting, Inc. and his crew were able to pour the basement slab yesterday morning. They used a concrete pump to get the concrete down into the basement pit. It was very interesting to watch these guys do their work. […]

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1040 Pescador Drive, Newport Beach, California

March 25, 2011

1040 Pescador Drive, Newport Beach, California Well, a lot has happened since my last post for the Rosenquist basement / room addition! The weather had really slowed things down a bit during construction. It can be pretty darn hard to keep rain water from entering a 14′-0″ wide by 42′-0″ long by 15′-0″ deep hole […]

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1040 Pescador Drive, Newport Beach, California

January 23, 2011

1040 Pescador Drive, Newport Beach, California I was hired by Jim and Beverly Rosenquist to design a major room addition to their existing two-story single family dwelling in the city of Newport Beach. Jim wanted to add a basement  for storage to the front side of their home along with a single car garage above. […]

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Newport Harbor Lutheran Church and School

December 26, 2010

Newport Harbor Lutheran Church and School 798 Dover Drive, Newport Beach, CA 92663 We were hired in October by the Newport Harbor Lutheran Church and School to prepare a set of plans to remove the existing clerestory window above the Narthex to the church. The original 25′-0″ wide by 23′-0″ wood framed window was rotting and needed […]

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3211 E. 15th Street, Newport Beach, CA.

November 3, 2010

3211 E. 15th Street, Newport Beach We are in plan check now with the City of Newport Beach Community Development Department for a new one-story single family dwelling located at the front half of the property owned by my client and friend Trent Smith of Trenterprise Development. Trent obtained a demolition permit to remove the existing one-story […]

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Sunsets in Newport Beach, California

September 30, 2010

Things to do in Orange County Whether you live here or you are on holiday with your family, one of the many things you can do is head down to our beautiful beaches at dusk. If you are as lucky as I was yesterday after work, you may get witness one of the best sunsets […]

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