Heather Nguyen, Author at JAG Development

Heather Nguyen

Heather is a licensed architect with fifteen years designing energy-efficient and net-zero homes across a wide range of climates. She has led the design on more than forty homes that earned ENERGY STAR, Passive House, or DOE Zero Energy Ready certification. Her writing is built on real post-occupancy numbers, blower-door tests and utility bills from houses people are actually living in, not theoretical claims from a brochure. She thinks about how a house feels at 7am in February as much as how it scores on a spreadsheet. Licensed architect, energy-efficient homes · Seattle, WA

Designing Indoor-Outdoor Spaces in a Las Vegas Custom Home: What Works and What Doesn’t Survive Summer

Residential / By Heather Nguyen

Las Vegas is sold as an outdoor lifestyle, pool, covered patio, desert views. That part is real. What’s also real is that from mid-May through late September, outdoor spaces that aren’t designed for the climate are genuinely unusable between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. A patio that looks stunning in the listing photos becomes a […]

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What a High-End Remodel in Henderson NV Costs in 2026: A Room-by-Room Breakdown

The most common question I get from Henderson homeowners considering a remodel is some version of this: what’s it actually going to cost? And the honest answer is that it depends on things most contractors aren’t specific about until they’re already on-site and change orders start landing. So here’s a straight breakdown for 2026 in