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Dream home design becomes reality
Photos and story by James Hill
PORTLAND, Ore. (Sept. 12, 2007) – If designing your dream home has been put on hold because of cost or time, now’s your chance to take those ideas and turn them into reality. This fall Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ will offer a four-week, non-credit series that will put you in touch with a professional architect who can help get your dream house designs from your imagination onto paper.
The class, Design Your House with an Architect, will help students develop a set of preliminary plans for a residential project of their choice. Each class will include a lecture, slideshow and time for students to draw. Instructor Leslie Rosenberg will cover:
Creating Comfort: Planning within a Budget (Sept. 25)
Placing Your House on its Site (Oct. 2)
Refining Your Floor Plan (Oct. 9)
Special Features: Home Theaters, Kitchens and Master Baths (Oct. 16)
The four-week class will meet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesdays, Sept. 25 through Oct. 16, in Room 243 of Building 2, at the PCC Rock Creek Campus, 17705 N.W. Springville Road. Cost is $45. For more information, contact PCC Community Education at (503) 614-7308.
Portland Community College is the largest post-secondary institution in Oregon, serving approximately 88,200 full- and part-time students. For more PCC news, please visit us on the Web at www.pcc.edu/news. PCC has three comprehensive campuses, five workforce training and education centers, and 200 community locations in the Portland metropolitan area. The PCC district encompasses a 1,500-square-mile area in northwest Oregon and offers two-year degrees, one-year certificate programs, short-term training, alternative education, pre-college courses and life-long learning.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »