This traditional 2-story home with wrap-around porch offers the charm of an older homes with substantial improvements in resource efficiency, comfort and modern convienence. The exterior veneer bears painted clapboards and fish-scale siding, plus other wood trim and dÈcor, including a sunburst in the porch gable above the entrance. A home remodeler, the owner wanted these exterior and other similarly traditional interior features in his new home instead of the more mass-produced finish treatments seen in most new homes of this price.
Compared to the traditional model, this home is open in its plan and better designed for natural ventilation, passive solar and daylighting. A passive sunspace on the south side in the original new house plan was cut for cost reasons, but could be easily added in the future. The detached, matching style one-story garage and workshop was sited not only to allow for supervision of the children in the yard, but also to optimize natural daylighting and ventilation of the shop.
The owner paid special attention to get a more healthy house by minimizing the outgasing of toxins and allergens, excessive embodied energy, and environmental degradation from careless material and finish selections.
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