'Call for Entries: Houses Awards' Contest

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Darien LEED Registered Home

edisalvo, member | May 25th, 2012

This gut renovation and addition to a 1925 colonial has been submitted to the U.S. Green Building Council and is expected to earn LEED Platinum certification. The home is located in Darien...

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Desert Contemporary Craftsman - the Promise Fulfilled

sundrop, member | May 21st, 20121 comment

When my wife and I were married in 1974, I promised to build her a house. It took 37 years to fulfill that promise, but I finally made good on my word. After building in Georgia and Colorado in my...

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Kootenay Lake Cottage

Kootenaylakeparadise, member | May 12th, 2012

My goals were to construct a small, easy to maintain, energy efficient summer lake house. I was living in France and I wanted to build a lake home in BC, Canada. I needed the house to be built in...

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The increasingly popular desire to build energy efficient homes that reduce running cost and provide the "feel good" factor of creating an environmentally sensitive and appropriate structure is not...

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Castleton Residence - Insulated rammed earth

terrell, member | May 2nd, 2012

Located on the underutilized back lot of a small rural subdivision, the Castleton Residence is a showcase for stabilized rammed earth as an exceptional local material for future housing in...

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Amagansett's Beach Bungalow

FractalConstruction, member | April 11th, 2012

"Little bungalow, big design," is how architectural designer describes this renovation project in Amagansett, New York. This neglected bungalow has been completely transformed by Liceaga's design...

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Leed Platinum Weekend Home in Sierra Foothills

Kaceyf, member | April 10th, 2012

Our goal was a small home as green and energy efficient as possible. We wanted to create a home that would be so well insulated and comfortable that it would need almost no fossil fuels to heat or...

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Hudson Valley Country House

FractalConstruction, member | April 10th, 2012

This weekend getaway in upstate New York is no arthritic farmhouse or creaking saltbox. It was recently born, rather, almost as a kit, brought to this rocky, wooded plot in custom designed...

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Vande-Musser Residence - A Net-Zero, LEED Platinum Home

vandemusser, member | April 9th, 2012

Built in Asheville, NC in 2011 and housing both the personal residence and professional offices for a husband and wife's home energy rating and architectural design companies, it was of utmost...

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Cannon Beach Cabin

ellenmirro, member | March 28th, 20122 comments

This 1200 square foot beach cabin was designed to be as small as possible, but to incorporate all the features that the family desired. The Owners, a husband and wife with a son in graduate...

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Authentic Log Cabin constructed from antique hand hewn logs

deke_abbott, member | March 22nd, 2012

The antique logs (150 years +-) are authentic, handhewn, and originally used in a remote pioneer cabin deep in the North Carolina mountains. This cabin was disassembled and the logs were moved to our...

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Power Haus

JWConstruction, member | March 19th, 2012

Our firm handled this project from concept to completion including; storm water diversion, site layout and prep, schematic design and construction documents. The intent was to design a home that...

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A New Staircase Makes the Addition Work

Niel_d, member | March 19th, 2012

My clients were a couple with two young boys whose house did not fit them anymore. The 3 bedroom 3 bath house was built in 1970 but its floor plan didn't support the way they lived. The boys needed a...

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Shearwater Beach House- Remodel and Addition

JonF, member | March 18th, 2012

Project Description: Every project has unique qualities and challenges in design. This project was very special because of its beachfront location. The original 1960's beach house, with its...

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Green Infill home

JonF, member | March 18th, 2012

This "infill" site had been overlooked for many years. The site is slightly sloping with a very irregular shaped created to overcome some lot size requirements that were violated many years prior...

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Rebuilding After The Fire

plkelly, member | March 18th, 2012

In September 2010 the house I'd grown up in, and the house that my father, a then semi-retired general contractor, had built, was burnt during a wildfire. After everything cooled down we quickly...

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High Performance Cottage

JR17, member | March 8th, 2012

Our key challenge was to design and build a high performance home (performance defined as energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and construction durability) in a community with strict architectural...

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Beauty and the Beast: A New Hampshire Working Building

livebest, member | March 4th, 20122 comments

This barn was designed for an owner who wanted a 36 foot clear span space for car and equipment storage, and also wanted the space to be a well tempered and tight space where he could have a shop and...

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Bungalow With A Twist: a new home in Carlisle, Massachusetts

livebest, member | February 28th, 2012

The client for this project appproached me with an unusual request. They wanted to have me design a new, sustainable house for a property that had an old, hand-built house on it. This house had lots...

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Sandpoint Efficient Cottage

SVCINC, member | February 10th, 2012

We built this home on speculation in 2010 to introduce an unavailable option in our area: a certified green, efficient home, targeted to empty-nesters. Our biggest challenge was explaining the...

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Three Towers Remodel

ClausFjord, member | January 30th, 2012

This project is still ongoing. Deconstruction/construction started at the end of September 2011 and completion is scheduled to take place in April this year. The original house was a two bedroomtwo...

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Huffine Home

Artrestore, member | January 30th, 2012

We designed and built our three bedroom retirement dream home on high bank waterfront property on Whidbey Island, north of Seattle Washington. Bluff setback, property line setbacks, and septic...

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The Remodel in Boulder

ToddGroshong, member | January 26th, 2012

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Hillside Modern House

dmarlatt, member | December 26th, 20111 comment

This family home is embedded in a steep, secluded, north facing hillside with views towards the San Francisco Bay. Its elongated plan follows the site's contours and its broad roof tucks under strict...

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