Noah Grunberg of Noble Home and JASONOAH shared with me this weekend his client’s blog charting her Noble Home being completed on Cape Cod.
Noble Homes are green, modern, and easy to construct. Each Noble Home is designed for each specific owner and building site to maximize natural resources such as views and solar energy. Learn more about the project at http://greentwig.blogspot.com/.
The firm behind Noble Home kit houses and the Bare Hill Barn House is JASONOAH. From the Noble Home web site:
Design partners Noah Grunberg and Jason Silverman have been custom designing modern affordable homes for many years.
From the JASONOAH web site:
For over ten years, JASONOAH’s knowledge of organic architecture, solar design, and earth berm construction has provided them with techniques to satisfy customers’ desires for natural homes. With construction industry partners, JASONOAH can offer a design-build service for residential and commercial projects - built on time and within budget.
Visit JASONOAH.com.
I’ve been thinking LVL Home again lately. My wife likes it better than the container home idea and, to be honest, it’s probably cheaper and easier than a custom container home design. If only we were ready to sell and move on.
My latest aspiration is an LVL Home with a finished basement, like Jim & Rui’s in Maine (pdf), which is open for tours June 14th. I had been thinking a PowerPod for a detached home office, but am now wanting an LVM to match the main house.
Anyway, I came across a few photosets and features on the LVL home today. Enjoy!
An LVL tour from NYS on Flickr
An LVL Home blog - I’m linking to one post on the site with featured photos
Check out this option, from RES4, designers of one of the Dwell Homes models. Via Treehugger:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/small-lot-prefab-from-resolution-4.php
Note that says “Green House” and not greenhouse.
I’m excited about anything that comes out of Ithaca, NY — I attended Ithaca College there — and two Cornell Solar Decathlon team members have now launched FreeGreen, “making green home designs free to everyone!” (Inhabitat)
View the site at: http://FreeGreen.com or Inhabitat’s coverage at:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/02/freengreen-bringing-green-design-to-the-masses/
From our own backyard in MA (Lawrence to be precise). I’m totally sold on a PowerPod for a back or sideyard office. I haven’t found any pricing yet, though. If you’d like a smart full-size home, check out the PowerHouse.
http://www.powerhouse-enterprises.com/powerhouses.html
http://www.powerhouse-enterprises.com/powerpod/options.shtml
If you know me, you know I’m a big fan of shipping container homes. Via Grassroots Modern:
a seven story condo made of orange shipping containers dubbed “City Center Lofts” is planned for construction in downtown Salt Lake City.
http://www.grassrootsmodern.com/2008/04/07/shipping-container-condo-in-utah/
Both are in NYS, both are properties for sale: http://www.empyreanapf.org/2008/oh0315ny/oh0315ny.html
Starting in the Hudson Valley/NYS:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/02/29/rocio-romero-lvl-house-tour-kicks-off-tomorrow/
Via Grassroots Modern, the 100khouse blog, “in downtown Philly trying to see if they can build both a modern and “green” house for a measly $100,000.”
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