Random Cut Flagstone Patio Patterns Random Cut Walkway Patterns Setting the Stones Given the variety of masonry products and materials the designs for masonry projects and in particular patios and walkways can seem to have almost endless possibilities. Working with flagstone alone the stone can be laid out in fitted irregular layouts like we did [...]
Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live
Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live while the title for latest book from the talented and renowned architect by Sarah Susanka is also one of project specialties and part of the way we think here at Paradigm Projects. Many of us first took notice of Sarah Susanka ten [...]
The Things We Do: Summer Structures
Are you thinking about a Decks, a Cabana, a Porche, a Patios, a Pergola, a Gazebo, a Treehouses, an Arbors, a Trellis, a Sheds, a Playhouses, or some Outdoor Furniture? Well we apply the same professional project management methods, planning, and organizational skills to those kinds of projects as we do to the even larger [...]
Got Schedule? – The Value of a Project Schedule
"Failing to Plan Means Planning to Fail" In my mind, that sums it up. But this article will focus on providing some more detailed benefits. Contrary to what you might be thinking, this article is NOT some type of promotion for the use of Microsoft Project. As a matter of fact, your schedule could be [...]
ParadigmProjects@Work: Tennis Court Cabana Mt. Kisco (Bedford Corners); NY
As we move through the process of remodeling our web site we’ve just added our first gallery of photos from a Tennis Court Cabana project we did in August of 2006 in the Bedford Corners area of Mt. Kisco NY. Slide Show:Tennis Court Cabana The slide show starts with the excavation and setting of the [...]
The Things We Do: Timber Framing
Timber Frames Honor the Structure by Displaying It as Artwork for All to See Timberframing is perhaps one of the most satisfying and rewarding carpentry disciplines to a tradesperson and one of the most beautiful and dramatic construction methods in the eyes of homeowners too. In fact in his seminal book on the subject [...]
The Things We Do: Finished Basements
Designing a Better Basement Space For years builders in the northeast have built their homes on basement foundations as standard operating procedure and often leave them unfinished for the homeowner to decide on the space’s use later. Some of the important elements you need to consider in finishing a basement that apply to any project [...]
Some Thoughts and Common Wisdom Regarding: 'Going With the Low Bid'
“It is unwise to pay too much, but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money—that is all. When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do … If you [...]
The Design/Build Process
…Our Preferred Method of Work Design/Build – What does it mean?… An Overview Defining the Design/Build process or paradigm * Why Not Just Get 3 Free Bids? The Design/Build Process The Advantages of Design/Build What Design Build Is Not The Other Alternative Processes of Contract Work: Design/Build – What does it mean?… an Overview While [...]
Paradigm Projects:Project Management & General Contracting
Project management is project management as is project management. In other words the science and principles of managing a project are the same whether it’s whole house remodel or just a bathroom. We think Project Management can be summed up as the overall planning, control and coordination of a project from inception to completion aimed [...]
