The Hayne Way: Different Types of Site Visits

Site visits or architect “field trips” are vital to the design process. Here are four types of site visits that we do here at Hayne. TYPE ONE: Pre-Design Meeting The site is important…. like very important…. At the beginning of every project, we meet on-site to review where the project is physically located and hear…

Project Spotlight: Port Townsend Project Introduction

Hayne Architects will Travel! We have a new project on the boards and the boss man recently made a field trip to Port Townsend Washington to meet on site with the client! 2-dimensional information can only take us so far when we start designing projects. With the survey and some site photos we can start…

Project Update: Sierra Towers_ The Last of Our X-ray Vision!

Hello there! Welcome back! This week we wanted to share some photos from our Sierra Towers project before drywall gets put up and walls are closed. So take a look below and use the last of your x-ray vision to see all the different things that go into the walls to make a building or…

Pre Launch Party: Sea Level Dr

We are super excited to see our Malibu Beach House done and photographed and can’t wait to share it with you! Need a recap? Check out these posts leading up to this! We had a wonderful time working Nathan Turner and experiencing his brilliant interior design work come to life! Check out below our before…

Project Update: Malibu Modern Fire Rebuild

Hello Everyone! It’s been some time since we’ve checked in and the work continues at our Modern Malibu home project! We are very excited to see how it has progressed and want to share the goodness with you! So continue to scroll down to see where is it at now and click here to see…

Project Spotlight: Lawless Brewery

Long time no blog…  Things have been a little hectic here at Hayne as we added a teeny tiny new member to the Hayne team family and temporarily lost Bianca to a more demanding boss… HAHA!  Soon she will be back in the office so why not restart our weekly updates… Lawless Brewery is well…

Project Update: Modern Malibu Fire Rebuild

We hope everyone and their love ones are staying safe in these difficult times! We wanted to give you an update on our Modern Malibu Home. It brings us happiness to see a client’s dream home become their reality so we wanted to share the goodness! Keep scrolling to see what where it is at…

Project Update: Sea Level Dr

Update time! So our Malibu project is full steam ahead and coming along very nicely. We are all very excited to see this beach side home complete. Finishes are going up, doors and windows are coming in and we are lookin’ and we are likin! Here is a refresher from where we left off. Now…

Working through As-Builts: Tetris Style!

DREAM: Go to a site. Take measurements and write them down very neatly with different colors to organize different conditions. You are able to easily access every space in the house. You photo document every wall and special conditions happening. You return to the office in 3 hours because you were able to complete it…

Project Update: Sea Level Dr

Things are moving right along at our Malibu beach front project! We are excited to see the progress continue and look forward to showing you the completed work! Take a peak below to see and check out the other post that showed the work done before! Enjoy! This project is looking great! Stay tuned as…

May we find you a Bargain

Sometimes the price isn’t always right…  So what do we do?  Well first we need to look at scope, can we shrink the project?  This will always make the largest dent in reducing the construction budget.  Next, we look at the finishes. For one of our current projects, we tasked our Interior Designer Hillary Hayne…

Things We Love: Seeing Projects Completed!

In honor of Valentine’s Day, this February we are going to do a series of posts about: THINGS WE LOVE! One of the things that we love, is seeing all of our hard work completed.  Making those drawings reality and seeing the completed spaces.  Last month, we had the pleasure of touring one of our…