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 Portland Magazine - Winterguide 2007
Lucia's Luscious Little Landmarks
by Kyo Bannai
Tired of seeing McMansions invading our woods and fields? Do you love classic, efficient, smart design but fear the price of an architect or loss of control in creating one of the most personal investments you'll make? Read the article.
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 Fine Homebuilding - Houses
A contract that makes everybody happy
by Robert Knight
Summer 2006
In terms of making clients happy, the most important events in a custom residential project are picking a builder and structuring a contract. Read the article.
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 A House on the Water
Inspirations for Living at the Water's Edge
by Robert Knight
October 2003
Living in a house on the water is an almost universal desire. People are naturally drawn to the water -- both for recreation and relaxation -- and sites on the water sell quickly.
But what is it really like to live on the water? Maine architect Robert Knight explores 24 homes in this book that represent outstanding examples of the relationship of house to water -- seaside, lakeside, and riverside -- with clear explanation of the design and construction details necessary to create a beautiful house that can withstand the sometimes severe conditions at the water's edge. With the help of 300 color photos and site plans, A House on the Water deals with these issues successfully, and the solutions to these technical problems enhance the quality of the design rather than forcing compromises in it.
A House on the Water is in bookstores now; click here to order online - see samples here.
To read the introduction to the book, click here.
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 Capes: Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling and Building New.
One of our houses is featured in the new book Capes: Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling and Building New.
From Amazon.com: "Cape Cod homes are a perennial favorite among small and growing families, and they can often benefit from being brought up-to-date. Capes is a combination of practical, attractive designs and proven ideas that include a wealth of style, size, and budget choices for renovating, remodeling, or building a Cape Cod-style home." Click here to see more. |
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 Fine Homebuilding
Building Smaller, for Now
The September 2001 issue of Fine Home Building features an article writen by Robert Knight on building homes which can later be expanded. Titled "Building Smaller, for Now", the article is on page 88, and features two of our recent homes.
The article will also be reprinted in a book entitled "Small Homes" that Taunton is releasing in the Spring of 2003.
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 The Cabin
by Dale Mulfinger & Susan Davis
One of our houses is featured in the "The Cabin" from Taunton Press, by Dale Mulfinger & Susan Davis. The feature on our house is entitled "An Interim Strategy" and begins on page 184. |
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 Creating the Not So Big House
Insights and Ideas for the New American Home
by Sarah Susanka
October 2000
Knight Associates is one of several firms featured in this book, which details the creation and thought process behind building small houses.
Click here to go to the Not So Big House Web site.
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 Architectural Digest
In the Shingle Style
by Mildred F. Schmertz
August 1998
It is not every day that an architect is asked to design a brand-new Shingle Style house that is to possess an authentic, late-nineteenth-century look combined with twentieth-century livability.
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 Down East Magazine
My Life as a Client
by Robert Knight
February 1994
I live in an old house myself, a 200-year-old farmhouse in Blue Hill, where I have been a practicing architect for seventeen years. And although I didn't design the house from the ground up, my wife and I did decide two years ago to renovate it completely, stripping it right down to the shell, to solve the problems we had lived with for fifteen years.
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 Fine Homebuilding
The House in Alice's Field
by Robert Knight
Summer 1997
So we have this wonderful hay field rimmed with old oak trees that slides down onto a peninsula in the Bagaduce River about halfway up the Maine coast. And the house needs to exploit it and live up to it, to be as wonderful as the site so that we enhance this place rather than detract from it.
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 Better Homes and Gardens
Home Plan Ideas
Standing Tall but Small
by Sharon L. Novotne
Winter 1997
The smaller house just starts to become a suit of clothes. ...You're much closer to the skin of it, and you're always looking out. So if there's a lot of glass there, it tends to make the house feel bigger.
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 House Beautiful
Home Remodeling & Decorating
Build a Deck
Spring 1991
Using this house as an example, it's easy to see how decks earned their place among added-value remodelings. Without its sophisticated deck, this compact cottage on Maine's Penobscot Bay might have seemed a little too compact for a family of five.
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 How Big is a Square Foot?
(Click here to read)
By Robert Knight
This article originaly appeared in Fine HomeBuilding Magazine. This modified version includes a spread sheet of house costs.
Construction Cost Estimator - Download zipped Excel file here
By Robert Knight and Bill Pryor
An excel file that can generate a cost estimate similar to the one described in "How Big is a Square Foot?".
Note: The file is zipped. When it appears on your hard drive double click on it to expand it to an Excel file. The file requires Microsoft Excel to run.
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PS We are currently experiencing difficulties downloading this with Netscape Navigator and are working on it.
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