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/.
Big house in the country? Or smaller cottage in a quiet community?
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/08/can-a-big-house-in-the-country-be-green.php
Forbes Park in Chelsea, MA has received coverage on Inhabitat:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/08/18/forbes-park-by-urban-design-and-redevelopment/
Bob Swinburne, an architect in Brattleboro, VT, has a great blog chronicling his personal and professional viewpoints.
The article from Metropolis that I previously mentioned is now available online. From the article:
Because Zamore’s local shipping model is entirely different from that of prefab homes, he estimates that it will save thousands of dollars in warehousing, fuel, and delivery charges. “As the price of energy goes up, I’ve watched companies putting these modules on trucks and sending them over long distances,” he says. “I’m not doing that. The home site becomes the factory. Instead, I’m just selling information.” Rocio Romero, who makes site-built homes but ships the components from one factory in Missouri, finds what Zamore is doing timely. “I deliver from the factory in parts, and keep my homes on one flatbed truck to keep costs down,” she says. “But the cost of fuel has gone up 50 percent in the past three years, so I’m literally charging customers thousands of dollars more for each home.”
I really think this is a great model and provides some awesome options. I’ve been staring at floorplans at ZamoreHomes.com for weeks now. I’m currently eying the larger three-floor model, which is a really smart layout. Room for a dedicated home office on the ground floor, shared only with the garage. Living space and true master suite on the second floor. Kids’ bedroom up under the eaves.
Read the article at Metropolis.
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
Rocio Romero is pleased to announce that the next stop on our National LV Open House Tour is Eliot, Maine on Saturday, June 14, 2008. This event is the second of four that will be held throughout the country.
The 2008 National Tour will provide attendees the opportunity to see and experience the LV space. Ms. Romero, her staff, homeowners, and general contractors will be present to discuss LV design features, custom design options, the build process, and construction costs.
Since 2003, more than 6,000 individuals have visited the Rocio Romero show home in Perryville, Missouri. Our new national tours allow attendees to view our latest homes and experience the wide array of customization and lifestyle options available to LV home owners.
Home Featured: Jim and Rui’s LVL Home
Event Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008
Tour Times: 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
Tour Fee: $40 per person (tour reservations are non-refundable and non-changeable). For more details, call 573-547-9078 ext. 104.
http://www.rocioromero.com/RocioRomero/openHouseNationalTour.htm
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/
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