Nicholas Buccalo | Architect's Blog

March 9, 2024January 14, 2024

Landscaping for Energy Savings: How To

Landscaping for Energy Savings: How To, is a homeowner’s guide to employing strategies to lower energy consumption (for heating and cooling) through landscape design. One of the joys of home ownership is the yearly development of one’s garden. Besides watching it bloom, there are benefits to home energy consumption which a proper landscape can contribute to. Here’s a list of tips which will reduce energy costs. They help your home warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

Article by Nic Buccalo, Architect

February 10, 2024January 15, 2024

Energy Savings: Best Wall Construction

Traditional suburban homes, single family wood built house, generally lack enough insulation to keep heating and air conditioning bills reasonable. To keep an older home feeling comfortable, one has to use more energy (electric, oil or gas) or add insulation. Energy Savings: Best Wall Construction explores the options.

February 8, 2024February 8, 2024

Imagine the Best Bathroom Layouts Ever

GOALS:

To create an ideal bathroom that retains the smallest practical footprint while meeting the adult requirements of living.
Make a checklist of all the requirements needed in a modern bathroom.
‘Compare and Contrast’ 4 types of layouts, from the cheapest bathroom to a luxury layout, in order to understand the differences.

As a result of this analysis, we hope to determine the ideal bathroom for the majority of people, which can be used in all dwelling types. Dwelling types that include Studio/One-Bedroom apartments, or as the primary bathroom in multi-bedroom dwelling.

January 13, 2024January 13, 2024

INSULATION: Everything you need to know.

Article by Nic Buccalo, Architect

Insulation is the best way of keeping your home warm in winter and cool in summer. The greater the insulation, the less mechanical effort is required. For older homes, the cost burden of maintaining a comfortable interior can financially burden a household. Here is everything you need to know.

January 13, 2024February 8, 2024

Home Energy Saving, Air Sealing: How To

Article by Nic Buccalo, Architect

STOPPING AIR FLOW FROM INTERIOR TO EXTERIOR

Staying comfortable in winter while keeping one’s energy costs low is the goal. A few simple fixes can reduce one’s energy costs by half. Air sealing is the easiest way to impact the quality of comfort in your home.

February 16, 2022January 15, 2024

Five Bad Things about Townhouses

Owning your own Townhouse can be a wonderful experience. It can also turn into a nightmare if you have the attitude that it will take care of itself. Knowing the trouble signs can save you from that frustration, help secure your greatest investment and give you the pleasure of living that you deserve. Here’s Five Things about Townhouses you should know.

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June 23, 2021June 23, 2021

Driveway Transition

When a driveway is too steep as it intersects with the roadway, it can cause property damage by allowing the bottom of vehicles’ bumpers to scrape on the asphalt. Further, there can be scratch marks in the driveway where the bumpers of trucks have failed to clear the surface when trying to enter the property, shortening the lifespan of the driveway. This modest modification at the transition can eliminate those issues.

April 7, 2021

Complete Home Programming-Part 1 Intro

Architectural design revolves around several components that when integrated properly can create a beautiful expression that is also functional. Functionality can be described as both the efficiency of its programmatic uses (such as laundry room), and, as a component of how the edifice is perceived (the visual function of a building being expressed as a residence, place of worship, etc.).

May 14, 2020February 16, 2022

Covid-19 Non-Essential Construction Guide

Issuance Date: 04/15/2020
To: Owners and Contractors
Purpose: Updated guidance to owners and contractors on
enforcement of Essential vs. Nonessential
construction in accordance with updated guidance
from the Empire State Development Corporation
issued on April 9, 2020 pursuant to NYS Governor’s
Executive Order 202.6 and subsequent orders.

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January 25, 2020February 16, 2022

Basics of Small Business Web Presence

This is a basic overview of websites in the age of Google. Hopefully it will help the small company have a presence when people do Google searches. This is a ‘throw it at you’ article, so please add questions and comments so I can add additional information that I might have missed.

If you haven’t created a website before, or don’t know what a ‘website host server’ is and how to connect to one to upload your website information using FileZilla or some other program, this all might be over your head. The goal here is to help those who have basic knowledge and then to help them ‘get on top of the hill’ so they (their website) can be seen by more people, thus helping their business.

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