Architecture Photography for Real Estate Sales & Insurance Purposes
Architecture is one of my passions. Architectural photography has an artful purpose as well as a professional one. As an aside, I put out there, my skill set for the real estate and insurance industries for the sake of sales, documentation and qualifications.
Property redesign and renovations are also my skillset and efforts, which include structural stone masonry, custom creative carpentry, deck building, retaining walls, drywall installation and finishing, professional quality painting, damage renovation, rodent pest entry prevention, professional landscape and hardscape design and installation.
ARCHITECTURAL AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN
I like to bring the sense of the creative to every aspect of my life and what I do in the world. I also love and honor the natural world and our connection to it. So it just follows that what I like to do with the human environment and the natural environment is bring them together. It's design with a big picture.
When I do something, I want that to last. So what I create, I build solidly and beautifully. The end result is a good use of our resources, it has a practical purpose, serving a need, and it's cherished because it's timeless and unique.
Of late, I've had the pleasure of taking on some special projects that incorporate design on several levels. Ones that include stone masonry, carpentry and landscape design with a botanical focus on seasonal displays and establishing healthy ecosystems.
The pictures that follow show what I've done to get it transformed...
This is a great image of the house when we got it, featuring carport supported by ugly cinder block pillars, same facade of cinder block on side of house, minimalistic metal railing and cheap lattice work hardly concealing the under-the-house eyesores. The house was built in 1967, but it has good bones!
Even though I have already started doing the local
greenstone veneer on the first post, this shot does justice to the appearance of the railing and box store lattice-work.
The first step was the foundation wall stone masonry work, followed by framing of, the understory access and making gate. The bat-and-board siding was next, followed by replacement of railing, the ventilation below & doing trim work.
Retaining Wall...
The project that inspired the whole thing! My intention here was to stop soil erosion and create more of bed space for blooming plants.
Downward extension of bat and board siding.
Here's the sheeting over the structure with plywood above the foot plus thick stone foundation walls. The first step of keeping architectural integrity with rest of the house.
Improving Visual Appeal of Structure/Protecting Space from the Elements
Another image of the same process. The pony wall is 1.5 feet thick, made from native local greenstone concreted together with high-strength concrete.
Designing Home and Landscape in Accordance with Nature