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…
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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
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…
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…
Tree and Green Space Haters in Philly
Tree and Green Space Haters in Philly We got a kick out of the comments on Facebook and other sites regarding our campaign to maintain open space and a 80 year old tree in South Philadelphia. Some will make you laugh and others will make you go what? Please help save open space in development…
Value of Small Gardens in Tiny Houses
Small gardens are now the in-thing to use in marketing and sales ads for tiny homes and small living spaces . With people feeling like they paid too much for their homes, having a small piece of garden is an oasis in a sea of concrete and stucco. We were walking along South and 2nd Streets…