Tyler Upchurch
- Creedal Christian (Apostolic, Nicene, Westminster)
- The oldest of 12 children.
- Married with 4 kids (and a 5th on the way!)
- 3rd Generation Home Builder
- Hobbies: Reading, writing, and discussing ideas
Design Values
- Existing beauty: enjoy and improve what is there, never ignore, never damage.
- Connection between the outdoors and indoors.
- Quality before quantity of space. Always.
- Excellence with simple materials is better than mediocrity with expensive.
- People can and should participate in designing their own home.
A beautiful, radical statement of values and practices Greyhaven Designs strongly resonates with can be found here: Living Neighborhoods Developer’s Charter.
We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We owe it to the worms and the trees that the building we cover them with will stand as promises of the highest and most intelligent kinds of happiness.
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness