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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our Barn

MarciBL, member | November 25th, 2011

Sorry for late submission. Home was not complete upon deadline of actual submission date. Please consider us for 2013, if possible. Please read links below. Two articles were written up about our...

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Building Stem Walls with Insulated Concrete Forms

hargraveshomes, member | November 19th, 20111 comment

After pouring the slab a few weeks ago we were ready to build the stem wall for our crawl space.  After a little research we decided to use Insulated Concrete Forms.  We were very happy...

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We Poured A Foundation!

hargraveshomes, member | November 6th, 2011

We poured our foundation this friday and everything went wonderfully.  For the full low down check out the blog here. The pour went so well and we were lucky to have two awesome...

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A Different Kind of Foundation

hargraveshomes, member | November 3rd, 2011

When we first started planning our house we assumed our foundation would be like many others in the area.  The typical footers with stemwalls, we researched using Insulated Concrete Forms and...

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Durango House Rendering

hargraveshomes, member | October 26th, 2011

We are excited to have this rendering of the house we designed.  It was created by Elwood Cooke of Cooke Studios- Dunkirk, Maryland.  It truly captures the essence of what we are trying to...

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Carmel Rose Residence

Roger_Boyer, member | July 29th, 2011

This existing house is located about one block from the Pacific Ocean and the beach. The original part of the house was built in the 1920's, on land that is about ten feet below the street frontage...

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The Roxbury House

aspencs, member | July 28th, 2011

The Roxbury House is a net-zero ready Tennessee Log home built in the Catskills region of NY state.  The owner's dream was to build a low maintenance home with a geo-thermal system in which he...

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Creekside

tsarch, member | July 28th, 2011

The lot is a narrow rectangle with 40’ of vertical gain from low point to high point. There is a creek along the lower property boundary and a public road along the upper property...

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New Home in Gig Harbor, Wash.

Milgard, member | July 28th, 2011

Gig Harbor, Wash., is known for its expansive views of the Puget Sound and beautiful Mt. Rainier. So, when Hoppet Design and Construction Inc. was called on to tear down and build a new home located...

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Truro Residence

Adam_P, member | July 28th, 2011

Summary: The Truro Residence is a modern, oceanfront vacation home built in 2008, perched 115’ above sea level overlooking Cape Cod Bay.  This 6,200 sq. ft. original design can sleep up...

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English Residence

Adam_P, member | July 28th, 2011

Summary: This modern, green home is designed as the homeowners vacation property to replace a seasonal residence that was originally built in 1958.  The new construction 2000 SF, 3 bedroom, 2...

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Concord Green Home

Adam_P, member | July 27th, 2011

Goals - A healthy living environment was top design priority for this New England farmhouse. After years of exposure to toxic materials and mold in previous homes, the owner became increasingly...

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Hexadecagon

aeschlimannwoodworks, member | July 27th, 2011

This construction is a new, sixteen-sided, energy efficient, timberframe, retirement lake front home.  Some of the particular challenges were in roof design ie: integrating the carport roof into...

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FISHER TIMBERFRAME

sketchpad, member | July 27th, 2011

The homeowners wished to downsize their existing log home, while eliminating some of the maintenance but keeping the character of the wood interior.  A timberframe hybrid, two bedroom with...

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Madison Residence

archy21, member | July 26th, 2011

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Situated on a south-facing hillside in Western North Carolina, the Owners desired a very energy-efficient, low maintenance house...

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Victor Montana sustainable home

abbea, member | July 26th, 2011

  The biggest challenge was convincing my family that we could build a small house and be responsible to the environment at the same time.    After I bought the property in Victor MT...

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