SVS Design

Residential drafting & visualizations
Helping home owners plan and visualize their remodel, addition, new construction build

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@CLFFRD1977 @roboticjoey I could help you, DM me if you want.

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Older homes have stories to tell, newer homes are unwritten books. To each their own.

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Where are my people who would choose an older home over a new build any day?

Pre-WWII, mid-century, 80s, whatever era. If you're drawn to older homes, what is it for you? The materials? The layout? The character? The feeling?

I'm always curious what pulls people in.

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@amelia_tweetz Older homes have stories to tell.

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@timelessfaithh This looks so beautiful 🩶🩶🩶

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Some walls are there for a reason

https://t.co/nFHAiVZOgA

[Catholic Pebble @CatholicPebble]

When I was a child, we lived in an apartment building. One of our neighbours from the ground floor was a friendly young woman. One summer, she decided to renovate her flat; we had to put up with some banging and drilling but it wasn’t so horrible. When the works were done, she invited my family over for a coffee to show us the final result of her flat’s renovation.

Her excitement was contagious when she opened the door to let us all in. She had had the door between her kitchen area and the living room removed - there was now a sizeable hole in the wall which helped create a large, semi open-plan area at the centre of her apartment. I absolutely loved it! In fact, I was sightly jealous because I wanted our own flat to look like hers; there was so much space and light in her place.

The very next summer, the neighbour decided to make the hole in her wall even larger, knocking off almost the entire wall. I thought that was a brilliant idea and could not really understand why my parents believed it was dangerous. However, as winter approached and strong winds started to blow, our apartment building began to rock violently. Someone called the local building inspector and it was soon discovered that our neighbour did not have a building permit for her work. In fact, her renovations endangered the stability of the entire building and she was ordered to have the knocked-off wall rebuilt.

Witnessing this whole affair as a child helped me realise that walls exist for a reason. They weren’t there simply to prevent light from entering or make the space smaller – these walls provided stability to the entire structure of the building and ensured the safety of all its residents.

Sometimes, our society reminds me of my young, enthusiastic, foolish neighbour; people that keep removing bricks, one at a time, thinking naively that they are simply letting more light in and not realising that they are endangering the very fabric of the civilisation itself. We now have a huge hole in our wall and a building that shakes violently, threatening to fall and bury us underneath the rubble. Consequently, those who understand what is happening seem almost paralysed by fear, demotivated and frozen.

It is time to wake up from our shock and start rebuilding that wall.

The construction workers who came in to help my neighbour had to first stabilise the wall and prevent further damage; they used iron rods in order to achieve this. Then they started stacking bricks on top of each other. Once they have rebuilt a portion of the wall, they removed the iron rods in order to rebuild another portion.

The iron rods in our society are various secular means that help us slow down any further damage in our wall –policies, organisations, community efforts. These, however, are temporary measures that help us while we do the actual work of rebuilding.

We must stack bricks on top of each other, one by one, each brick representing a unique but connected effort: prayer, penance and the rebuilding of our families, neighbourhoods, workforce as well as all other communities that are part of each of our lives. The glue that holds all of these bricks together is, of course, Our Lord Himself.

It is now time to stop being demoralised and leaning on the iron rods alone. We have some building to do and God is always by our side; let us put our construction hats on and get our hands dirty because this wall will not rebuild itself.

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@SCweather_wx The first step is always the hardest. Good luck 🙏

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The ultimate problem child in every kitchen remodel

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@bridgemath45 This is truly inspiring!

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Beauty is timeless.

[ʙʏ ᴍᴏʀᴛᴀʟ ʜᴀɴᴅ @bymortalhand]

There is a reason Notre-Dame de Paris became such an important example of Gothic architecture

The builders wanted to move away from the heavy, dark interiors of many earlier churches

So they used pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses, which allowed them to raise the structure higher and open up the walls for larger windows

What looks beautiful to us today was also a remarkable piece of medieval engineering

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Exposed stairs or private office? Why not both?

[Greg @gregcroc]

Some AI tools are better than others apparently 🤦‍♂️ 🤣 This bathroom remodel concept is a VERY bad idea IMHO

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@mrsrobot63 @CatholicPebble I’m so glad to have her in my corner as well! ❤️ - Sara

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@Mach1_Bobby Thank you so much! 🙏❤️

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It takes more than passion, but passion is what sustains you when all else seems lost.