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This log cabin has been in the family for multiple generations. A true log cabin, this home greatly lacked energy efficiency. The homeowners began making updates to the exterior in 2014 by replacing their front entry door and most of their windows. In 2015 they decided to replace the original wood with insulated vinyl siding. This home was completely transformed with the replacement siding, windows, and door. The Cedar Ridge insulated vinyl siding has a 7” profile in Slate with White trim. The Exteria ledge stone is in Rocky Mountain with Clay trim. The essentials windows are white in both double hung and two lite slider styles. The fiberglass ProVia entry door provides a pop of color in Vallis Red with clear glass and an Aged Bronze handle.

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The screened in back porch offers a more private retreat, to enjoy the outdoors and great view. Whether grilling, reading, taking a nap on the gorgeous swing, this will be a favorite space..

The coastal style Mandevilla Home Plan blends in perfectly with its tropical setting. This family home is designed to accommodate a very active lifestyle. The circular drive pulls up to a prominent covered entry surrounded by columns and topped with gables. The mixed siding is accented with white trim, brackets, and a trellis over each garage door. Photography by Diana Todorova

Our clients requested an energy-efficient escape home on a 16-acre site in rural Elgin that would be maintenance friendly, age-in-place adaptable, and whose sculptural quality could harbor for their expressive family. With its dominant east-west axis, the maximizes control of solar gain control; its placement was carefully adjusted to allow all of the nearby trees to thrive. The standing seam roof’s pitch and azimuth provide optimal solar PV and fills a 20,000-gallon rainwater cistern. The age-in-place, step-less interior provides an expansive view at the south terrace. The cantilever of the board-formed foundation is a structurally expressive solution resolving an otherwise imposing mass. The curved prow of the north-pointing entry is a nod to local Elgin brick. A bowed and formally jubilant thermal chimney faces south for efficient passive ventilation. Photo credit: Chris Diaz General Contractor: Native (buildnative.com)

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We designed this 3,162 square foot home for empty-nesters who love lake life. Functionally, the home accommodates multiple generations. Elderly in-laws stay for prolonged periods, and the homeowners are thinking ahead to their own aging in place. This required two master suites on the first floor. Accommodations were made for visiting children upstairs. Aside from the functional needs of the occupants, our clients desired a home which maximizes indoor connection to the lake, provides covered outdoor living, and is conducive to entertaining. Our concept celebrates the natural surroundings through materials, views, daylighting, and building massing. We placed all main public living areas along the rear of the house to capitalize on the lake views while efficiently stacking the bedrooms and bathrooms in a two-story side wing. Secondary support spaces are integrated across the front of the house with the dramatic foyer. The front elevation, with painted green and natural wood siding and soffits, blends harmoniously with wooded surroundings. The lines and contrasting colors of the light granite wall and silver roofline draws attention toward the entry and through the house to the real focus: the water. The one-story roof over the garage and support spaces takes flight at the entry, wraps the two-story wing, turns, and soars again toward the lake as it approaches the rear patio. The granite wall extending from the entry through the interior living space is mirrored along the opposite end of the rear covered patio. These granite bookends direct focus to the lake.

This log cabin has been in the family for multiple generations. A true log cabin, this home greatly lacked energy efficiency. The homeowners began making updates to the exterior in 2014 by replacing their front entry door and most of their windows. In 2015 they decided to replace the original wood with insulated vinyl siding. This home was completely transformed with the replacement siding, windows, and door. The Cedar Ridge insulated vinyl siding has a 7” profile in Slate with White trim. The Exteria ledge stone is in Rocky Mountain with Clay trim. The essentials windows are white in both double hung and two lite slider styles. The fiberglass ProVia entry door provides a pop of color in Vallis Red with clear glass and an Aged Bronze handle.

An existing stone cottage was removed and recreated to maintain scale of spaces and maximize views of wetlands and woods, and but with modern efficiencies and comfort. The addition of a garage and guest house, pool, and screen porch offer the flexibility for intimate to large family gatherings.

Maple House is a lovely little craftsman-style home that had some great features to begin with, like a full size pantry and a mudroom entry from the carport. It did need a lot of love, though, from top to bottom, and ceiling to floor! It is now a really functional and efficient home, with lovely tile work in the bathrooms, granite counters and new cabinetry in the re-designed kitchen, new flooring throughout, and a huge walk-in closet in the adorable master bedroom. This one only stayed on the market a few days before being purchased by a very lovely family!

This log cabin has been in the family for multiple generations. A true log cabin, this home greatly lacked energy efficiency. The homeowners began making updates to the exterior in 2014 by replacing their front entry door and most of their windows. In 2015 they decided to replace the original wood with insulated vinyl siding. This home was completely transformed with the replacement siding, windows, and door. The Cedar Ridge insulated vinyl siding has a 7” profile in Slate with White trim. The Exteria ledge stone is in Rocky Mountain with Clay trim. The essentials windows are white in both double hung and two lite slider styles. The fiberglass ProVia entry door provides a pop of color in Vallis Red with clear glass and an Aged Bronze handle.

Photo credit: Scott McDonald @ Hedrich Blessing 7RR-Ecohome: The design objective was to build a house for a couple recently married who both had kids from previous marriages. How to bridge two families together? The design looks forward in terms of how people live today. The home is an experiment in transparency and solid form; removing borders and edges from outside to inside the house, and to really depict “flowing and endless space”. The house floor plan is derived by pushing and pulling the house’s form to maximize the backyard and minimize the public front yard while welcoming the sun in key rooms by rotating the house 45-degrees to true north. The angular form of the house is a result of the family’s program, the zoning rules, the lot’s attributes, and the sun’s path. We wanted to construct a house that is smart and efficient in terms of construction and energy, both in terms of the building and the user. We could tell a story of how the house is built in terms of the constructability, structure and enclosure, with a nod to Japanese wood construction in the method in which the siding is installed and the exposed interior beams are placed in the double height space. We engineered the house to be smart which not only looks modern but acts modern; every aspect of user control is simplified to a digital touch button, whether lights, shades, blinds, HVAC, communication, audio, video, or security. We developed a planning module based on a 6-foot square room size and a 6-foot wide connector called an interstitial space for hallways, bathrooms, stairs and mechanical, which keeps the rooms pure and uncluttered. The house is 6,200 SF of livable space, plus garage and basement gallery for a total of 9,200 SF. A large formal foyer celebrates the entry and opens up to the living, dining, kitchen and family rooms all focused on the rear garden. The east side of the second floor is the Master wing and a center bridge connects it to the kid’s wing on the west. Second floor terraces and sunscreens provide views and shade in this suburban setting. The playful mathematical grid of the house in the x, y and z axis also extends into the layout of the trees and hard-scapes, all centered on a suburban one-acre lot. Many green attributes were designed into the home; Ipe wood sunscreens and window shades block out unwanted solar gain in summer, but allow winter sun in. Patio door and operable windows provide ample opportunity for natural ventilation throughout the open floor plan. Minimal windows on east and west sides to reduce heat loss in winter and unwanted gains in summer. Open floor plan and large window expanse reduces lighting demands and maximizes available daylight. Skylights provide natural light to the basement rooms. Durable, low-maintenance exterior materials include stone, ipe wood siding and decking, and concrete roof pavers. Design is based on a 2' planning grid to minimize construction waste. Basement foundation walls and slab are highly insulated. FSC-certified walnut wood flooring was used. Light colored concrete roof pavers to reduce cooling loads by as much as 15%. 2x6 framing allows for more insulation and energy savings. Super efficient windows have low-E argon gas filled units, and thermally insulated aluminum frames. Permeable brick and stone pavers reduce the site’s storm-water runoff. Countertops use recycled composite materials. Energy-Star rated furnaces and smart thermostats are located throughout the house to minimize duct runs and avoid energy loss. Energy-Star rated boiler that heats up both radiant floors and domestic hot water. Low-flow toilets and plumbing fixtures are used to conserve water usage. No VOC finish options and direct venting fireplaces maintain a high interior air quality. Smart home system controls lighting, HVAC, and shades to better manage energy use. Plumbing runs through interior walls reducing possibilities of heat loss and freezing problems. A large food pantry was placed next to kitchen to reduce trips to the grocery store. Home office reduces need for automobile transit and associated CO2 footprint. Plan allows for aging in place, with guest suite than can become the master suite, with no need to move as family members mature.

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Our clients requested an energy-efficient escape home on a 16-acre site in rural Elgin that would be maintenance friendly, age-in-place adaptable, and whose sculptural quality could harbor for their expressive family. With its dominant east-west axis, the maximizes control of solar gain control; its placement was carefully adjusted to allow all of the nearby trees to thrive. The standing seam roof’s pitch and azimuth provide optimal solar PV and fills a 20,000-gallon rainwater cistern. The age-in-place, step-less interior provides an expansive view at the south terrace. The cantilever of the board-formed foundation is a structurally expressive solution resolving an otherwise imposing mass. The curved prow of the north-pointing entry is a nod to local Elgin brick. A bowed and formally jubilant thermal chimney faces south for efficient passive ventilation. Photo credit: Chris Diaz General Contractor: Native (buildnative.com)