The Architect’s Blog

Unless you live in a completely custom home that you had a hand in designing, your Long Beach home was not built with you and your family in mind. If you live in a custom home built by someone else, it was designed with the original owner’s lifestyle in mind, and if you live in a tract home, it was likely designed to accommodate the average Long . . . Read more...

Over the past year or so, our architecture firm has received a lot of great feedback from past customers in the form of Google reviews. These customers took the time to offer their feedback about what it was like to work with Grisafe Architecture, and let us tell you, we were quite pleased with what they had to say! It’s one thing to talk . . . Read more...

If you’ve looked into having an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) built on your Long Beach property, you may have noticed that the City of Long Beach has some pre-approved plans online. These are plans that were submitted by architects in the area and have already been reviewed and approved by the City. You would purchase the plans from the . . . Read more...

We mentioned in a previous blog post that Grisafe Architecture is now offering balcony inspections for condo associations in Long Beach so they can be in compliance with the new California law (SB 326). In short, the law requires that condo balconies and other “exterior elevated elements” in condo complexes be inspected every nine years, . . . Read more...

A while back, our architecture firm heard about a new law that was passed in California that is being called the “Condo Balcony Inspection Law.” It is also known as “Senate Bill 326” or simply “SB 326.” Most people in California would have no need to be aware of this new law—but you would if you happen to sit on the board of a condo . . . Read more...