Check out the iT house feature in the November issue of Dwell.

We will be launching our new website for the iT house, a development project called "Three Junipers", and the Taalman Koch main website all to coincide with the article.

Links to our new iT house sites will be available at taalmankoch.com

perfect weather has arrived
we luxuriate in opening up all the sliding doors

even the bathroom is open to the fresh air

Oleana loves our new curtains

bath time

spring flowers are blooming

Summer plays hide and seek with Oleana

the new bench has a nice hand-hewn quality that contrasts
nicely with the aluminum and glass

Olee's friend Summer sitting on the new bench

almost done

halfway there

we salvaged a tree from another construction project of Chris'
here's what it looked like right after the first longitudinal cut
just before we slid the scrap piece off

the stair delivers guest right to the entry court

all the steel in place

my cousin Chris Wilson - the late night welder

we installed the stair down from the parking area. they are steel
risers (that will turn to an orange rust color) and decomposed
granite backfill.

the house now feels complete with the pattern and curtains installed.
it feels like a home.

now that the patterns are applied, we turn our focus towards the
landscape work. on the left of the image traces of the construction
driveway remain. we will begin to reshape and plant this area to
help it blend back into the desert.

a little sweeping up after some visitors. 30 people from the
houston art museum visited today

the front door with the finished pattern

the far kitchen wall will also be covered in the pattern all
the way to where the curtain hangs

the design as seen from the entry court. we want to screen the
view as you move towards the house so that the view isn't revealed until
entering the house proper

the first two Sarah Morris / Liam Gillick panels were installed -
the second panel is visible draped over the chair, still attached
to the transfer tape