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More than a year ago, we climbed a ladder and walked the second floor of our addition while it was in a very rough format with Mark Tierney, our master electrician. We were looking for what seemed like mundane things like where power outlets should be placed. I’m glad that I took this process seriously. […]

After a year of construction, the barrier between the original Techbuilt house and our new addition has been removed. We chose to live on our house during construction. This proved a challenge because we didn’t want to get in the way of the builders. When we first started construction in November 2015, a barrier was

The most frequent question we’ve received during the (so far) year-long construction project has been “What are you doing with your old garage?” A variation on this I heard a few times was: “Why do you need 5 garages?” No, we don’t have five cars. The new 3-car garage built as part of the addition is the

Our project has allowed us to consider using smart (internet enabled) products in our newly designed home. There are many products on the market that allow your mobile device to control systems in the house. Some systems including music, thermostat, and doorbell made total sense to use our iPhones to control. But we rejected many

At Home with Tomorrow, by Carl Koch, designer of the Techbuilt house with Andy Lewis is a very rare book published by Rinehart and Company in 1958.I was lucky to score an excellent example of this book. It’s fun to page through it to learn about Koch and the design philosophy he used to build

We have exercised regularly for many years. While we love being outdoors to run, mountain bike, swim, and surf, the long cold Massachusetts winters mean that for many months in the year we need to stay fit indoors. In the old house, the family room doubled as our exercise area. While it worked okay, we