Building a House

Hey folks! It’s been a few days, but I have a good excuse!Since starting this blog I’ve had such an incredible outpouring of support from all of you and across the various forums I subscribe to that I’ve actually gotten laryngitis from talking to my computer Read More

A lot of different ideas/themes/principles have gone into the designing of this house. Accessibility, open floor plan, passive solar, and universal design all floated through our heads as we worked on revision after revision. Hundreds of hours later we have arrived at a floor Read More

Last fall I set forth to find and purchase the perfect piece of land. I can remember driving my wheelchair all over town with my mom/dad in tow next to me on their bicycles. What we wanted seemed like an impossibility. In town, but still quiet and secluded, beautiful view, Read More

So I’ve been thinking about how I can best design/research/blog this material and have decided to break it into smaller chunks that will hopefully be more manageable and easier to tackle. I think I’ll probably break it down something like this… 1. Land (Survey Read More

Let’s see… how about a little background about me and what I’m trying to accomplish here. Three years ago, before a skiing injury left me a quadriplegic, I was living in Utah working as a controls engineer for a large ski lift manufacturer enjoying the outdoorsy Read More

So I said I’d never do it… start a blog, write about my trials and tribulations… talk about my disability and how I’ve overcome it. Since I broke my neck three years ago in a skiing accident everyone has been telling me that I should share my story. You Read More