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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 sharing holding a sample from the winning design

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 their website https://cheathamdrafting.wixsite.com/global

So here is our interview:

SaveOld2ndStTree: Bruce how old are you?
Bruce: 25

SaveOld2ndStTree: Bruce please share with us your education in Architecture?
Bruce: I have been interested in Architecture since attending high school at William Tennent High School. Drafting for 9 years in high school, college and after college. He went to Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Lancaster PA and studied Architectural Drafting where he met Paige Jimenez.

SaveOld2ndStTree: What made you take up drafting?
Bruce: While in High School an older brother of a friend brought home some drawing work and he really like the idea of drawing.

SaveOld2ndStTree: How did you hear about the contest?
Bruce: I saw the Facebook ad.

SaveOld2ndStTree: What made you want to participate in the contest?
Bruce: I love doing Tiny Home Concepts. And I recently did a concept for someone on a property st 19th and Ridge.

SaveOld2ndStTree: How many projects have you worked in the past?
Bruce: 5 or 6 during 2018. With two years of designing for house flipper, bathrooms and decks.

SaveOld2ndStTree: What are your hobbies?
Bruce: Golfing and drafting. His hobbies are his commercial endeavors: construction, drafting, concepts, real-estate,etc.
SaveOld2ndStTree opinion- Bruce is a real go getter and hard worker

SaveOld2ndStTree: How can people contact you for working together?
Bruce:
Email (CheathamDrafting@gmail.com),
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/BCheatham013),
Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/bruce_cheatham/),
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-cheatham/) and
his website (
https://cheathamdrafting.wixsite.com/global ) .

SaveOld2ndStTree: What are you looking for in the future?
Bruce: Moving back into Philly. I spend most of my time in Philly when I’m not home. I’m currently looking at developing a 1/2 Block property. My older brother has a construction company and maybe we will team up on future projects.

SaveOld2ndStTree: What did you like most about your design?
Bruce:

The Floating Stairs – with options for creating storage as with small houses storage is always and issue

3D rendering of the tiny house design showing floating stairs and roof changes

single closet storage available

1st Floor design with storage below stairs and a mechanical storage location in back

2nd Floor design with closet and variable levels making the house interesting with balcony

the Juliette style balcony for light inside and so it looks good from the outside

3D View with Juliette Balcony and Front entrance

Fun of designing with different pitched roofing

3D design showing different roof pitches plus sun lights. This is so Cool!

SaveOld2ndStTree: What do you think of some of the box architecture designs popping up around Philadelphia?
Bruce: Not a big fan. I’m not liking the fake extensions from the house designs, where they don’t use that space for something. They are just facades that add no functional use to the resident.

So we used Bruce’s design as a part of our Philadelphia Zoning Board hearing. Our statement to the Board “I could see myself Living in this House! It is really Cool.”

Again this was a Great Design! Thank you Bruce.

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 the other night and noticed all the Real Estate images that contained gardens and patios in their sales pictures in the show room windows.

Garden yard sales feature — Rock garden in yard as selling feature

The city of Philadelphia calls for open space to be a part of any building project. In the Philadelphia Zoning there is a RSA-5 requirement of 9 ft per Zoning Code Table 14-701-1 which reduces to 5 ft per note 7 for lots of 45 ft or less in depth. Note 7 says: In the RSA-5 district, the minimum rear yard depth for lots less than 45 ft. in depth shall be 5 ft. for the first 12 ft. of building height. Portions of buildings above 12 ft. shall comply with the minimum rear yard depth as set forth in Table 14-701-1.

(http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/Pennsylvania/philadelphia_pa/title14zoningandplanning/chapter14-700developmentstandards?f=templates$fn=default.htm$3.0$vid=amlegal:philadelphia_pa$anc=JD_Table14-701-1)

Also in the International Building Codes (IBC.2009) accepted by the State of PA and City of Philadelphia, Section 1206 Yard or Courts: 1206.2 Yards shall not be less than 3 ft in width for building two stories or less. Increase 1 ft for each additional story.

Yards help allow light and air to flow in to our homes and the building code was written with that in mind.

Roof decks across South Philly to escape the confines of small space living.

Even cities like Japan cherish their small gardens.

Locally Real Estate agents will add the garden plug in a second.

full real estate sign w garden2 — full real estate sign w garden promotion

Please don’t forget to sign and share our petition to save small open spaces in new developments in Philadelphia.
https://www.change.org/p/councilman-mark-squilla-save-old-2-st-tree

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Interview with Bruce Cheatham our Tiny House Design Winner

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 .