
How Building Envelopes Impact Your Health
A building envelope is commonly defined as the separation of the interior and exterior of a building. It’s the physical separator between the conditioned and unconditioned environment of a structure including the resistance to air, water, heat, light, and noise…

Remodel or Tear Down & Rebuild?
If you’re thinking of buying a home, you’re probably facing many questions. Maybe you’d like to remodel an older, existing home to make it your own. Or maybe you’re considering that same home with the intent of tearing it down…

How Timber Frame Homes Are Environmentally Friendly
Quarry View Building Group began building timber frame structures primarily because our customers wanted to combine beautiful timber and old world style but there are other benefits to using us as your timber frame builder. One of these benefits in…

Virginia Barndominium
With this masterpiece, it is hard to highlight everything we love about this custom barndominium in a short summary! Our team had a lot of fun partnering with this customer and we worked hard to ensure that the build materialized into…

Top 4 Interior Design Trends for 2021
At the beginning of every new year, one looks in the past for inspiration and to the future for new ideas. One wonders what will the new season bring? 2020 saw its fair share of home trends, thanks to a…

Smart Home Design for 2021
There’s a lot of movement in home design going into 2021. The Covid pandemic has restructured the home in unexpected ways since the beginning of last year. In addition to more space for learning and studying, we’re also looking for…

Timber Frame Home Planning
The dictionary defines timber as: “a large squared or dressed piece of wood ready for use or forming part of a structure.” Along with the ubiquitous calling of a falling tree, these are the two most popular references to wood…

Fall Home Checklist
Quarry View Building Group loves autumn. It’s a season of transitions as the weather turns chillier and the days grow shorter. The long days of summer are a memory but our icy winter is not ready quite yet. Now is…

Barns with Living Quarters
There is just something so down-home comforting about a barn. It speaks of simpler times when our ancestors labored with their hands to provide food and care for their families. So it makes sense that you’d want to live in…

Creating the Perfect Floor Plan
Every home starts with a floor plan. They act as a guide through your home to show a view from above of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure. For…