Bruce Cheatham of Cheatham Drafting and Design our Winner of our Tiny Home Design contest was nice enough to sit down with SaveOld2StTree and share some of his story. Bruce and his partner from college Paige Jimenez work together at Cheatham Drafting and Design to produce some very creative works that can be seen at…
Winner ! – Quick and Dirty Design Contest for Tiny House Concepts
We have a Winner for our Quick and Dirty Design Contest for Tiny House Concepts. We will be doing an interview post later in 2019 with the designer and his business, for now here are some of the images from his entry Winner – Bruce Cheatham from CHEATHAM DRAFTING & DESIGN https://cheathamdrafting.wixsite.com/global
Why the Tree is at Risk
Our 80-plus year old tree is in danger from development plans on an adjacent lot that is just too small for building or living, 14ft wide x 20ft deep. The design calls for a 3 story trinity house which would force cutting almost half the branches. If the shock doesn’t kill the tree, it would still be…
Save Old 2St Tree.org with our Change.org Petition
This petition will be in addition to hand petitions we are circulating with the immediate neighbors, local neighborhoods and others in Philadelphia. Click on the Image Below to Read and Sign the Petition Thank You Signed the Big Old 2 St Tree Please don’t forget to sign and share our petition to save small open…
Trying again – Quick and Dirty Design $300 Contest for Tiny House Concepts
Extended to 12/18/2018 midnight -Quick and Dirty Design Contest for Tiny House Concepts with Open Space In preparation for our next Zoning Hearing we decided to create a quick and dirty architecture design contest for tiny house concepts. We wanted to see the possibilities the imagination could come up with that could be build-able. Not…
Just a few windows and a small open space changes everything.
We wanted to share the impact even an small bit of open space has on the inside of a tiny home. The original developer proposal only had windows in the front because they wanted 100% coverage. Such a design in our opinion and our experience in one of own rooms, creates a cave effect and…
3D Rendering of Impacts on Light without Open Space
I’m so surprised that the Philly ZBA does not require this for all new developments. It was so easy to create. The new tech is awesome. We created a few 3D renderings of the developer’s proposed design of a 3 floor building without open space and then two designs with a small L-shape open space…
Drone Video of the Big Old 2 ST Tree – Test flights
These are our first test flights at recording the Big Old 2 St Tree with a drone. I’m still learning how to fly the drone and learned a few tricks after these first test flights. The tree is so tall I worry about losing the video feed. Here is our 2nd test flight. In a…
Philly Water Dept and Rain Barrels for your small Garden
The City of Philadelphia’s Water Department has a great program for getting rain barrels to collect water run off from our rain gutters. We have had ours in place for 2 or 3 years now. They are great for collecting rain water for your small lot gardens. The rain barrels are delivered and installed free…
Urban Potato Tower Garden
Attempting an Urban version of a potato tower in our raised Philadelphia small lot veggie garden. I saw a video on Facebook about building a potato tower and I was hoping to give it a try. As of May 2017 everything on the zoning challenge front is still in the fight, so I figured why…
Maintaining A Big Old Tree 2010
Maintaining a big Old tree We had our arborist come out to inspect our for health and safety, as we do just about every year, since 2010. They examine the tree and this year we got another good grade. Later, they will come out and give it some vitamins to keep it strong. In Philadelphia…
Small Gardens Produce a Healthy Soup
How about some Healthy Gazpacho Soup? It was a great day in the garden. The cherry tomatoes are growing like crazy as they always do. We never did cucumbers before, but they are sure producing really well. So well, that I had to figure out something to make with them, because a simple salad was not…