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…

the Hayne Way: Site Visits nearing Completion

Site visits are crucial to ensuring that our designs come to life in the real world.  We typically schedule our site visits during the construction phase weekly, but depending on project size and location, sometimes we settle for every other week, or even once a month.  These visits aim to track project progress, schedule, address…

Tips & Tricks: PDF word Search

After every meeting and site visit here at Hayne we generate Meeting Minutes or Field Reports to be distributed to the project team.  This creates a record of decisions made during the design phase (i.e. eliminated the sink in the lower level bar) and/or the construction phase (i.e. change the color of the fireplace from…

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…

Project Update: Sierra Towers

Project Update time! We just had a site visit at our Sierra Towers project and things are coming along great so we wanted to share! We left off with wall layouts taped out and color coded on the floor (which we love) and now we have those walls framed up! It’s very exciting to see…

Project Spotlight: Sierra Towers

Our Sierra Towers project is moving full steam ahead.  All of the mirrors and wall paper have been removed and we get to see the space as an open blank canvas!  Ummmm… what’s the deal with all these vent pipes!!! Now some of these pipes were expected and in exactly or very close to where…

Project Spotlight: Lawless Brewery

I think we are finally turning the corner at our Microbrewery project in North Hollywood!  The tanks have been installed and they look AMAZEBALLS! Obligatory Jobsite shoe photo! A snapshot of finishes – between the tasting room and the brewhouse. We can’t wait to see the progress as the finishes start to get installed! Watch…

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: 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…