New-build family homes, kitchen and bathroom renovations, wraparound porches, garage conversions, and small additions. Each capability area is documented in the archive through framing methods, finish selections, structural adjustments, and the sequencing of trades.
The archive groups work by type, but the labels are not interchangeable. A kitchen remodel and a garage conversion share a permit desk and a framing crew, and almost nothing else. These notes set out what each term covers here, what it leaves out, and where the boundaries get blurry.
If the footprint and the roofline stay put, it is filed as a remodel. Moving a bearing wall counts, because the structure is still the original house. Adding square footage does not, even when the new space is small.
A porch, a bump-out, or a converted garage bay all touch footings, drainage, and how new work meets old siding. Those entries carry their own drawings because the site work drives the schedule more than the finishes do.
Paint, hardware swaps, and single-fixture replacements show up in project notes when they matter to a decision. They are not listed as separate capabilities, since they rarely change what a permit office or a structural engineer needs to see.
In older houses, original millwork, heart pine floors, and window casings are documented as existing conditions rather than as material choices. New work is matched to them where it can be, and called out plainly where it cannot.
Entries name the trades involved, such as electrical, plumbing, tile, and roofing, so a reader can see the sequence. Individual subcontractors are not credited here; that belongs to the project record itself.
Commercial build-outs, full teardowns, and land development sit outside this portfolio. So do projects where the client asked us not to publish photographs or plans. Those jobs exist; they simply are not part of the public record.
Where a project sits on a line between two categories, the entry says so and explains which way it was filed. If a term here reads differently from how you use it, that is worth mentioning in a brief, since the wording shapes what gets scoped.
Every entry in the portfolio falls into one of a few working categories. They are grouped by the kind of build, not by a service menu, because that is how the decisions tend to cluster: structural work, waterproofing, rooflines, insulation, and the order the trades show up.
Ground-up residential work documented from footing to trim. Framing methods, siding transitions, and how the plan holds up once the family is actually living in it.
Interior remodels where the real work is coordination. Bearing walls come out, cabinets get set against rough-in that has to land in the right place, and tile layout decides how the room reads.
Smaller square footage, more site questions. Wraparound porches, garage conversions, and modest additions each raise their own issues about footings, egress, and how new work meets existing siding.
Each capability area links straight to real project entries, so you can trace how a scope turned into built work. If you want the reasoning behind the choices, the approach page walks through how the archive is put together, and the resources section collects the reference material that comes up most often.