Praise for Rod!

Here's something we would like to share about our design experience with Rod:

We'd been thinking that before retirement catches up with us we ought to build an energy star home, single story, less than 1,000 square feet, on a radiant slab, with a metal roof and natural wood siding. But it wasn't clear how we would get from this general idea to a set of permit-ready drawings. We browsed lots of pre-cooked plans for small-footprint modulars, log kits and SIPs homes that might be adapted to our very modest budget, but we didn't find what we were looking for. Then we discovered the website of Creative Constructions. We really liked what we saw there, and what we later heard at an introductory meeting. So we decided to take the next step, and see if Rod Lambert could help us turn our ideas into a buildable plan. Rod visited our site, talked with us about the project, looked at our sketches, and posed a lot of well organized questions. More exchanges followed, and in time he produced a schematic that addressed our needs and wishes very sensibly. In fact, it was such a great little plan that we turned directly to refining the details. That was quite a lot more work, actually, and for a number of weeks sketches were flying back and forth at wireless network speed. Throughout the process Rod welcomed our participation, made it easy to share ideas and questions, and provided just the right amount of guidance. The end result was a permit-ready plan that we were very pleased with. But the real confirmation of Rod's expertise came later, as our new home began to take physical shape and we could walk around inside it, feeling the rightness and coherence of all the ideas and choices that went into the plan. Sweet!

Pat Lia and Geo Kloppel