Author Archives: Rusty

Rebuilding Raleigh – Continued

By Rusty | Published: May 26, 2011

What words of comfort can you give to a person who has lost everything? A person whose home is so desolated that there is more tarp than house. The best I could muster was, “Don’t worry. We’ll take good care of you.” I’m usually pretty good with words, in writing anyway. But after the second […]

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Advanced Framing for Residential Construction

By Rusty | Published: May 24, 2011

Advanced Wall Framing, is a concept and phrase that the average homeowner may have never heard. In fact, if you’ve ever been in a structure built using these strategies, you wouldn’t necessarily know it. There are many different ways to approach wood framing, and ultimately the ‘bones’ of the building are almost entirely hidden from […]

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New Projects

By Rusty | Published: May 18, 2011

I’ve recently picked up a few new clients and have a few new design projects on the boards that I thought I’d share. The first is a house originally designed by my mentor, David Davenport, which he’s allowing me to take over on and carry through construction in his place. It’s a great little modern […]

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Rebuilding Raleigh after the Tornadoes

By Rusty | Published: April 25, 2011

Over the Easter weekend I took a walk through a Raleigh neighborhood hit very hard by the April 16th Tornadoes. I’ve been through a handful of hurricanes here in Raleigh, and seen what I thought was some pretty bad storm damage in the past. The level of devastation from the storms last week, however, was […]

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Structures for Inclusion 10+1 Conference Report

By Rusty | Published: April 19, 2011

I was delighted to find, courtesy of Bryan Bell, a report on the eleventh annual Structures for Inclusion Conference. The goal of SFI in a nutshell: SFI officially opened with a call to designers to enable every person to be able to live in a socially, economically, and environmentally healthy community. This goal is not […]

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