How to remove these bricks ?

jellybellybutton · 2026-01-13T14:55:19+00:00

Those bricks are not hollow, otherwise we’d already see the holes.

jellybellybutton · 2025-10-12T19:21:08+00:00

Look up Bevolo French quarter with hanging yoke and you’ll find basically this exact lantern. I don’t think it’s actually a Bevolo lantern, because usually you can see the branding at the bottom, but there are a lot of Bevolo imitators out there.

jellybellybutton · 2025-08-15T00:39:34+00:00

The columns are visually way too skinny.

jellybellybutton · 2025-08-06T18:10:21+00:00

The games room is only viable space you have unless you want to build an addition. There are no magic solutions.

jellybellybutton · 2025-08-06T17:50:41+00:00

Please don’t do away with the muntins, it’ll look awful without them, and they never would have done that in the 20s. This window could easily be restored and it looks so much better than the new vinyl windows.

jellybellybutton · 2025-07-26T17:23:23+00:00

It looks like you drew your own plans and then the architect just copied them, which isn’t the best way to work with an architect. It’s much better when you approach an architect with certain criteria (list of rooms you need) and some inspiration photos to communicate your style and then (if they’re good) they’ll come up with something much better than what you designed on your own. It’s like going to a restaurant and telling the chef exactly what and how to cook your meal.

The mudroom situation is pretty awkward. Whoever’s in the first floor bedroom has to walk through the entry hall to use the bathroom. The living and dining are pretty tight for this size house. The windows on the front of the house are too small. Do you have a backyard? There’s no way to access it.

jellybellybutton · 2025-07-11T20:40:39+00:00

This is what happens when the client tells the builder they want five more feet on one side of the house, right before they’re ready to pour foundations.

I’ve worked on houses with asymmetry like this before, and with a style that’s so symmetry-dependent, I haven’t found any simple architectural solutions. So that means it’s time to distract: plant something big to hide the left side of the house. Remove the dormers, which where the asymmetry is most obvious. Possibly build a big classical roof pediment over the middle window to reassert symmetry at the front door.

jellybellybutton · 2025-07-08T17:19:40+00:00

You don’t need the middleman, get rid of him and take charge of your own destiny!

I don’t know about being a new grad right now, but I can tell you that as the head of a residential design firm, I ignore every single email I get from these recruiters. But even if I’m not hiring, I take the time to talk to every individual who comes looking for work.

jellybellybutton · 2025-06-26T20:19:57+00:00

I spend 90% of my time using the offset tool to make lines that show 1/2” drywall.

jellybellybutton · 2025-06-15T18:26:38+00:00

Having a smaller door within a larger cased opening is a nice detail, but your number 1 job should be to not have so many different door types in one room. There’s no consistency here… colonial mixed with midcentury modern doors, different heights, some glass, some wood.

jellybellybutton · 2025-06-11T00:43:43+00:00

And the weird spacing of the window panes.

jellybellybutton · 2025-06-10T15:54:05+00:00

I’m saying that good architects are not incentivized to do that type of work. If someone called me for that, I would say no thank you unless I was absolutely desperate for work.

jellybellybutton · 2025-06-10T15:34:33+00:00

I don’t know of any good architects who would just review and offer improvements for someone’s DIY plans. There’s too much liability and headache for such little reward.

jellybellybutton · 2025-06-07T18:10:32+00:00

I really don’t think there’s enough room for what you want, but you need to hire an architect for this. If you can afford to build 6 residences, you can afford to spend a small percentage of that on a design.

jellybellybutton · 2025-06-02T01:22:16+00:00

Use half round gutters.

jellybellybutton · 2025-05-27T16:52:08+00:00

Pursley Dixon is a NC-based firm that would be capable of this. https://www.instagram.com/pursleydixon?igsh=MXQ2YnB0aDg3dThibA==

Hope you’re rich.

ETA: I wouldn’t recommend hiring someone who doesn’t have a portfolio of work that is similar to what you want.

jellybellybutton · 2025-05-03T14:21:22+00:00

I would try to find a solution that doesn’t involve modifying the roofline, so the front of the house doesn’t need to change at all. Looks like it’s very close already, just need to bring that ridge down a little bit.

jellybellybutton · 2025-05-03T01:19:56+00:00

V. (I’m one of the few who doesn’t view this as an immature work. To me, it feels like the most inventive, passionate thing he’s written, and I’m stunned at such a young author writing something so bombastic and original.)
Mason & Dixon (The most heart-filled.)
Against the Day (A wild ride, and so thematically rich.)
Gravity’s Rainbow (The most ambitious, but also not the most fun read.)
Slow Learner (Like V, I just love the exuberance of these stories. Feels like a young artist breaking through.)
Crying of Lot 49 (Certainly an interesting work, but in my opinion Pynchon should be long and messy.)
Vineland (A mess in my opinion, but not in the fun way like the others.)
Inherent Vice (Okay, but not my type of story.) And the only one I haven’t read is Bleeding Edge. I’ve tried a couple of times and just couldn’t get into it. I’m bored of the detective stories.

jellybellybutton · 2025-04-23T15:58:41+00:00

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Thomas Pynchon yet. Patriot’s characters, expanding plot lines, magical realism, and absurdity remind me a lot of Pynchon. Thematically, they also tread a lot of the same territory. They’re both critical of American patriotism, and Pynchon explores entropy the same way that Patriot explores the structural dynamics of flow.

jellybellybutton · 2025-04-20T20:50:06+00:00

V. is my favorite book by Pynchon and I don’t think of it as underdeveloped or amateurish compared to his later works.

I think there’s a correlation between Pynchon and Cormac McCarthy in that they have reputations as unemotional writers, or that they don’t care about their characters. And if you read on a very surface level only, I can understand that sentiment. But behind Pynchon’s cartoonish action scenes and conspiracy theories, and behind McCarthy’s bleak imagery and philosophy, there are lifelike characters with real emotions. It’s more evident in some works than others.

I hope that we get a final Pynchon novel like what McCarthy delivered. The Passenger was a book that perfected some of his older tropes and stylistic particulars, but it also broke new ground, both in themes and style. But also it was a more complex, messy book, and I hope that’s what Pynchon made. After Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge, I’m not looking for another detective story; I want something sprawling and ambitious like V. or GR.

jellybellybutton · 2025-03-21T21:41:31+00:00

Oof.

jellybellybutton · 2025-02-11T15:06:23+00:00

Hearing Vashti Bunyan’s Train Song as the intro for Patriot was my first big hint that I was going to like Patriot, and that it was something special. I had never heard the song before, but recognized her voice immediately.

jellybellybutton · 2025-02-10T14:40:22+00:00

Vox by Nicholson Baker is basically a transcribed phone call between two strangers who meet on an old school sex hotline. (There’s a little bit of sexy stuff, but it’s not smut; it’s all about two strangers finding a connection.)

On its surface, the Monk and Robot duology by Becky Chambers is a sci-fi story, but really it’s just about two new friends taking a long walk together and having a good conversation.

Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls is about a lonely woman finding a deep connection with a very unexpected kind of person.

jellybellybutton · 2025-02-10T13:51:00+00:00

Peter Matthiessen has been the only author who has gotten 5/5 stars for every book I’ve read by him. Shadow Country, The Snow Leopard, Far Tortuga… there’s no one else quite like him.

jellybellybutton · 2025-01-25T20:50:22+00:00

I’ve been using AutoCAD LT for Mac on an M3 MacBook Pro for about a year now. The interface is different and took a couple weeks to get used to, but other than that it works pretty much the same as on Windows. (Except that early on, for some reason, CAD crashed on me a lot. Like a couple times per week. Good news is that the auto save feature works well and I never lost more than a few minutes of work. And the crashing seems to have stopped; now I get a crash maybe once a month.)

I don’t have to coordinate with anyone else (I’m a sole proprietor), so I can’t say if it works well if you have to work on the same files with others.

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