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…
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New Year, Better Us: Meeting Goals
Meetings are vital to the success of a project, whether it be determining the Client’s initial goals and desires, finalizing project specifications, or keeping track of construction. These last few years have felt a little “last minute” with the introduction of Zoom, where you can essentially set up project meetings in minutes from anywhere, but…
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…
As-hole Built Series: Here is a post-it…
You all know we love as-builts (eye roll) … and Los Angeles 1920’s hillside houses are our very favorite to field verify. The boss man innocently handed us two post-its with some sketches for the areas that we needed to focus on for our new Linwood project and we thought oh how great! We only…
Dressing Up: A Space!
Hillary Hayne is the vignette queen! We love to see her layer materials, patterns, colors, textures and objects to create special moments in any space. Indoor or outdoor. Collected or minimal. Here are some of our favorites from a recent shoot of Hayne Cottage. There are more to come so stay tuned and be ready…
Back to School: High Tech
Welcome back! As promised from last week’s post, we are going to go through some of our high tech wish list items. So check out below to see what we hope our Bossman will approve to “Add to Cart”! 1. VR Headset 2. Go Pro 3. Tile 4. Drone 5. Plotter 6. Teleporter Machine Hope…
the As-Hole Built Series: All the Chickens in the Coop
This week we continued working on our Reynolds Court house remodel, but we moved the design to the outside in order to link the inside and the outside for that true California-style indoor/outdoor living vibe. The main feature will be a new pool, but there will also be a chicken coop to integrate, areas for…
Pro and Cons of dating an Architect
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! On this week’s blog post we thought it would be fun to go through the Pros and Cons of choosing an Architect as a life partner. Enjoy and let us know if you have any pros and cons to add! PRO: Creative Thinkers We are creative people and problem solvers! You almost…