Laundry rooms become increasingly popular
Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by Joseph Hollak in Architecture, Interior design
Recently, while I was hosting a Clovis open house near Peach and Herndon, a couple was touring the property when they commented on how important it was to find a Clovis home with a large functioning laundry room. They were dead-set that the next home they invested in had to have an entire room dedicated [...]
The JoAnn Ussery “plane home”
Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by Joseph Hollak in Architecture, Home Buyers
I can safely say that this “style” of home isn’t for everyone. Could you imagine living in JoAnn Ussery’s plane home? Her brother-in-law, an air-traffic controller at Memphis Airport, invited JoAnn to the plane moratorium the very next day where she fell in love with a 1968 Commercial Airlines Boeing 727. The plane didn’t look [...]
How to make a small home seem larger
Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Joseph Hollak in Architecture, Interior design
California is home to some of the most expensive land prices in the country. In some densely populated California areas, small home footprints are the norm, in which case design and careful use of space can either make the space feel larger or outright claustrophobic. How you design or redesign your small space can help your [...]
The top floor
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Joseph Hollak in Architecture
Typically the top floors of a residential building are the most expensive and most exclusive floors in the building. Known as the penthouse, it commands the most price per square foot compared to any other unit in the building. $9,700 PER SQUARE FOOT For example, a penthouse in the Hong Kong residential project called Cullinan [...]
The English Tudor
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by Joseph Hollak in Architecture
The English Tudor style home came into its popularity around the 1920s and 1930s in America. It’s easy to recognize a Tudor once you know what to look for. Classic features include stone work or brick work on the exterior walls with exposed beams on the exterior and the interior usually stained dark. Tudors have [...]