Out With The Old, In With The New
By Steve Murray
For as long as I have been building in Sarasota, stretching back to 1995, architectural trends have been fairly staid and proponents of “evolution” rather than “revolution”. The “Spanish-Med” style that has adorned so many of our new subdivisions and neighborhoods has finally been laid to [...]
Why Build Now?
By Steve Murray
It was about three years ago that I began to notice….there were less speculative phone calls from people asking about building new custom homes on the waterfront. At the time we were really busy, but in construction the long lead time means that if you are not getting the phone calls [...]
Historic Versus Old
By Steve Murray
There is something about a historic car, boat or house that triggers the romantic in most of us…a 1956 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing, a 1933 J-Class America’s Cup yacht or an 1850’s restored row house. Yet, “old” does not necessarily mean “good”. There are many old cars out there that you wouldn’t [...]
Are You Protecting Your Home?
By Steve Murray
As we enter into the cooler weather and with it the end of the hurricane season, we can be thankful for a quiet year during 2009. Not once this year did we have to stop work at our job sites and prepare the half-built structures for a possible “big [...]
Thursday, April 22, 2010
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