Issue 267 – HOUSES 2017
Features
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Best Remodel 2017: Colonial Transformation
Improved flow, more natural light, and a connection to the outdoors modernize a creekside Minnesota home.
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Best Small Home 2017: A LEED House on a Small Lot
An architect designs a right-sized, certified Platinum home on a challenging building lot in British Columbia.
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Best Traditional Home 2017: Federal Farmhouse
A Vermont architect uses the state’s energy-efficiency guidelines to craft a new zero-energy home steeped in traditional character.
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Best Energy-Smart Home 2017: Net-Positive in New England
This new home blends the nostalgia of a traditional Massachusetts farmhouse with the needs of a 21st-century family.
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Editor's Choice 2017: A Study in Design/Build
This new home for a Navajo family blends traditional values with modern details and materials.
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Readers' Choice Awards 2017
In addition to the six award-winning projects selected by the Fine Homebuilding editors, we also asked our readers to select their favorite homes.
Article
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Why Don’t We Build Better Houses?Although we know how to build healthy, comfortable, durable homes, mostly we don’t...but not because it’s too expensive.
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Surviving a Design ReviewWhether you’re in a historic district or an upscale development, the secrets of success are the same.
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FHB House: Flexibility in the Floor PlanThe completed house is durable, efficient, and attractive with a flexible floor plan on each level.
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Through the LensDesign ideas from the Fine Homebuilding photographers.
Commentary
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You Are Building Better HousesWe’ve created a shortsighted market where buyers need to pack as much resale value as possible into their initial costs because that’s all appraisers will tally and all lenders will underwrite.
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Drawing Is Easy, Building Is HardA real-world relationship with building materials and processes makes architects better at their jobs.
