Issue 251 – HOUSES 2015
Features
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Editor's Choice Award 2015: No Dreary Days
This unassuming island home combines abundant windows for light and views with inviting nooks for cloudy-day refuge.
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Best Energy-Smart Home 2015: Stepping Off the Grid in Hill Country
This Texas house borrows from the ground and the sky to achieve net-zero energy use and complete water independence.
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Best Remodel 2015: Modernism for the Masses
This midcentury style of Joseph Eichler proves a fitting framework for a contemporary remodel.
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Best Traditional Home 2015: A Colonial Resurrection
A Revolutionary War–era stone farmhouse is restored with a preservationist’s attention to detail.
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Best Small Home 2015: The Cabin Concept
This home in north Idaho puts savvy space planning and craftsmanship on display while offering an alternative to conventional home building.
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Boomtown
The surprising hotbeds of design, construction, remodeling, and more.
Article
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Low-Tech SolarBefore considering PV panels, integrate passive strategies into the core of your home’s design to reap savings in heating and cooling costs.
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The Big Deal About Tiny HousesFour principles of intentional living from the tiny-house movement
