The New Site is LIVE

I pulled up my own website a few months ago, the one I'd been perfectly happy with for years, and I didn't recognize the designer on it.

Nothing on it was wrong, exactly. It was a good site. It just belonged to a version of me who had done less. The work I'm proudest of wasn't on there. The way I actually work now, the way I've changed after twenty-plus years and two states and a whole lot of houses, wasn't on there either. It was a nice photograph of somebody standing several years behind me.

So I rebuilt it.

k2design.us is live this morning, and here's what's on it.

Ten projects, and I mean the real ones. A ground-up build a block from the Pacific ocean in Sunset Cliffs. A remodel in Bay Park where the whole job was getting out of the way so the canyon out the window could have the last word. A spin studio, a salon, a lab. And two houses up here in Colorado that I'm still in the middle of, which is exactly how they're presented, because I would rather show you the middle miles than pretend I only work in finished photographs.

There's an About page that tells the true story instead of the impressive one. There's a Services page that tells you how I actually work, from a single walk-through all the way to a full ground-up build.

I built almost all of it myself, which is either very on brand or slightly ridiculous depending on the hour you asked me.

That part matters more than it sounds. I'm renovating a 150-year-old miner's house in Leadville room by room, mostly with my own two hands, and I've spent 20+ years designing around how other people actually live and work. Doing my own site the same way felt right. Slower. Fussier. Mine.

Nobody tells you this part about evolving at your own work: your marketing is always the last thing to catch up. Sunset Cliffs was photographed years ago. Canyon Vista too. They've been sitting on a hard drive while the internet showed everyone an older, smaller version of what I do.

That's a strange kind of quiet to sit in. Growing, and being represented by the before picture.

So if you're anywhere near this, here's what I'd hand you: the thing out in the world under your name should be the thing you're doing NOW, not the thing you were doing when you last had a free weekend. Mine isn't finished. Two of my Colorado projects are running on placeholder cards because I haven't shot them yet. I published it anyway, because a site nobody can see is just a very expensive private document.

There's also a Journal on there now, and the Gold House will be the initial series. That's the 150-year-old miner's house I'm taking apart and putting back together room by room, and I'm going to keep telling it here, one room at a time, one project at a time, every week. Mistakes included. Especially the mistakes.

Same as a house. You don't wait until every room is done to live in it. You move in, you put the kettle on, and you keep going.

So. It's live. Go look around, happy to have you here! k2design.us.

And if you've got a house that needs someone who will still be paying attention in month fourteen, when the fun part is long over and it's just details and phone calls, I am surprisingly good at that.

When you're ready, let's talk.