HOMES

My journey into building began years ago in New Jersey constructing
 beautiful homes by the ocean and bay. My ambition, established early,was to have my own
 business, so I paid strict attention to construction details of all manner. With the mentoring of
a couple of big hearted, steel fisted contractors, and lots of study in design and financing,
I managed to gain the confidence to finally do it and took the leap after 15 years in the field.
Shown here are just a handful of the 50 or so homes I designed/built over the next few years
and whose photographs I managed to somehow still find.


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A FEW MORE HOMES


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I moved to New Orleans in 2006 to work as a project manager with Habitat For Humanity,
but because of a massive restructuring of their procedures/policies due to a 10 fold increase in
workload, I'd been temporarily held back.

So, having bills to pay, I found 'refuge from the storm' and began work in the
French Quarter on some 120-180 year old homes. The pictures below represent some of the completed
work as well as some in progress at the time. Hard but rewarding work.


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The videos below show the AFTER on the left and the BEFORE on the right
of several restorations I've recently completed here in New Orleans

Some of these are fairly dramatic.










































































Before and After Shots of a custom French-style vent hood with crown molding I designed/built in the French Quarter

Here are a couple of homes I was involved with early in my careeer.
The home on the left was a joint venture with Ed King, purported author of Sweet Home Alabama
when he was one of the guitar players with the band Lynyrd Skynyrd.






























Here is the first home I designed and built as a General Contractor back in 1986.
Check out the flyer and the prices at that time!





























MY FIRST SERIOUS HOME PROJECT

When I was 24, fortune smiled on me and I found myself involved in a special project -
A neighbor sold me a property she'd inherited for just the taxes owed - $1200. One acre and a very neglected house.
It was just the challenge and inspiration I needed, wanted, and got....
After removing the cracked plaster, I was intrigued by the exposed post and beam of the original (c.1820) frame.
I decided to maintain the same character when building the addition seen in the photos below.



(Left) My "new" house the week I bought it. Al K., an old friend doing the posing

(Right) The after pic on the day I sold it.















BELOW LEFT: New Mortise and Tenon Frame Going Up
CENTER: New Post and Beam Roof - Mortised, Tenoned, and Pegged
RIGHT: Almost finished shows my daughter on her 1st birthday excitedly testing her first real pair of new shoes.




FAR LEFT: The Roof System - Note the pegs
LEFT: The Press picks up the story
RIGHT: More of the framing





UNKNOWN TO ME , TWO HOMES THAT I'D DESIGNED AND BUILT WERE FEATURED IN 1997 ON
THE COVER OF 2 DIFFERENT CAPE MAY COUNTY HOME SALES MAGAZINES