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Living in retirement on the shore of Lake Chesdin: A son designs a home for his parents
Dr. and Mrs. Murray are now living in Dinwiddie County, Virginia on the shore of Lake Chesdin in a custom home designed by their son, Brant Murray, who is a graduate of the University of Virginia...
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Pinnacle Townhomes
Small, affordable, super-efficient townhomes, designed for college students and other low-income clients. This project sold out before all the buildings were built.
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N.C. Mountain Lake House
The couple who own this remarkable piece of land had been working initially with a different architectural team, but they were dissatisfied with the results. They decided to start over, hiring Sarah...
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Rippling River Townhomes
An small upscale townhome community set in the picturesque beauty of the Rocky Mountains.
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Helm House in the woods
A house in an historic wooded area, built primarily from an 1830'S salvaged tobacco barn, creates a connection to both the land and the wildlife. Situated into one side of a ravine, the main living...
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Nero
Customer's objective was to create a comfortable, efficient, beach front living property. There really was not any challenge.
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Barinaga Ranch
Located on a hilly windswept site in Marin County this project, on an 843 acre site, is the home of a working sheep ranch and cheese making dairy. By the time we met the owners they had spent a...
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Virginia Stone Barn
Overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains and a registered Virginia century farm, our home is located within the Goose Creek Historic District of western Loudoun County. The area was established in the...
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Stowe Vermont Shingle Style
To build a compact, energy efficient house, using primarily local resources, and maximize dramatic mountain views,incorporating a studio workspace in the basement.
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Japalachian Style by Jade Mountain Builders
1 commentAfter building 40+ green homes in the Asheville area, we took everything that we learned, loved, collected, and set to designing ourselves a Japalachian home. Our Architect, Michael McDonough...
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Old Oakville
This home exudes a feeling of timelessness. Designed by David Small Designs and built by Carriage Gate Homes, the home looks as though it has always been there, perfectly integrated with its...
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Retirement By-the-Sound
This easy-living retirement home, designed and built by Simmons Quality Home Improvement, Inc., is located in a tight beach community near Long Island Sound. The priority in designing the house was...
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Carbon Neutral Home in Vermont
The single, detached home is located on a wooded lot that had been recently logged. An existing clearing with excellent exposure to the Southern sky was selected for this passive solar home while the...
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Westport River House
The owners of this river-front house in Westport, MA – a well known residential general contractor and his wife – bought a cramped, uninspiring fixer-upper with the hope of undertaking a near...
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Oak Savanna Retreat
Set among a 100 year old Oak Savanna with lake frontage, the challenge and top priority was to design a retreat that maintained the harmony of its natural setting. In rhythm with the large bur oak...
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New England Retreat
As a description, our home is nestled in a pine grove on a south-facing hillside, overlooking a 7 acre pond. Our goal was to have our home blend seamlessly into its wooded surrounding using a palette...
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Forest Ave
I am a builder and wanted to design a very efficient home on a tight budget. I was able to achieve this by cutting the budget in some areas and splurging in others. I designed this house to fit...
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Contemporary Florida Cracker House
1 commentI have lived in Florida since the early 1930's and without air conditioning until the late 1960's. I have always felt that Florida did indeed have many, many months where A/C was not necessary...
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Prairie-style, river front, Montana townhome with Asian flair
This townhome is part of the Water's Edge development on the Clark Fork River, just upriver from Missoula, the home of the University of Montana. The project's architecture was inspired by Frank...
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The House of Embracing Paradox
The project is a small owner-designed and built house in the Willamette Valley college town of Corvallis, Oregon. The major task was to design and build a site-specific house in a traditional...
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Barn House
The Barn House- First Green Home Completed in the Eco-community of Green Acres The Barn House gains its inspiration from the surrounding pastoral/farm landscape of Merrill's Cove in Asheville...
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Buck Residence
Owner fell in love with a 775 acre, hilltop site for her hunting lodge style dream house. The views are expansive and exquisite, but the site is remote and subject to frequent storms resulting in an...
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Hudson WI SIP Construction
After determining our current home doesn't fit our lifestyle we decided to build a retirement home that accommodates our smaller family and work at home careers. Progressing through multiple designs...
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Desert Contemporary Craftsman - the Promise Fulfilled
1 commentWhen 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
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
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
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
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
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
2 commentsThis 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
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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