This LEED Platinum certified house reflects the homeowner's desire for an exceptionally healthy and comfortable living environment, within a traditional neighborhood. INFILL SITE. The family, who moved from another area of Wellesley, sought out this property to be within walking distance of the high school and downtown area. An existing structure on the tight lot was removed to make way for the new home. 84% of the construction waste, from both the previous structure and the new home, was diverted from a landfill. ZED designed to preserve the existing mature trees on the perimeter of the property to minimize site impacts, and to maintain the character of the neighborhood as well as privacy on the site. EXTERIOR EXPRESSION. The street facade of the home relates to the local New England vernacular. The rear uses contemporary language, a nod to the family’s Californian roots, to incorporate a roof deck, solar panels, outdoor living space, and the backyard swimming pool. ZED’s careful planning avoided to the need to face the garage doors towards the street, a common syndrome of a narrow lot. THOUGHTFUL SPACE. Homes with dual entries can often result in duplicate and unused spaces. In this home, the everyday and formal entry areas are one and the same; the front and garage doors share the entry program of coat closets, mudroom storage with bench for removing your shoes, and a laundry room with generous closets for the children's sporting equipment. The entry area leads directly to the living space, encompassing the kitchen, dining and sitting area areas in an L-shaped open plan arrangement. The kitchen is placed at the south-west corner of the space to allow for a strong connection to the dining, sitting and outdoor living spaces. A fire pit on the deck satisfies the family’s desire for an open flame while a sealed gas fireplace is used indoors - ZED’s preference after omitting gas burning appliances completely from an airtight home. A small study, with a window seat, is conveniently located just off of the living space. A first floor guest bedroom includes an accessible bathroom for aging visitors and can be used as a master suite to accommodate aging in place. HEALTHY LIVING. The client requested a home that was easy to clean and would provide a respite from seasonal allergies and common contaminants that are found in many indoor spaces. ZED selected easy to clean solid surface flooring throughout, provided ample space for cleaning supplies on each floor, and designed a mechanical system with ventilation that provides a constant supply of fresh outdoor air. ZED selected durable materials, finishes, cabinetry, and casework with low or no volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and no added urea formaldehyde. YEAR-ROUND COMFORT. The home is super insulated and air-tight, paired with high performance triple-paned windows, to ensure it is draft-free throughout the winter (even when in front of the large windows and doors). ZED designed a right-sized heating and cooling system to pair with the thermally improved building enclosure to ensure year-round comfort. The glazing on the home maximizes passive solar gains, and facilitates cross ventilation and daylighting. ENERGY EFFICIENT. As one of the most energy efficient houses built to date in Wellesley, the home highlights a practical solution for Massachusetts. First, the building enclosure reduces the largest energy requirement for typical houses (heating). Super-insulation, exceptional air sealing, a thermally broken wall assembly, triple pane windows, and passive solar gain combine for a sizable heating load reduction. Second, within the house only efficient systems consume energy. These include an air source heat pump for heating & cooling, a heat pump hot water heater, LED lighting, energy recovery ventilation, and high efficiency appliances. Lastly, photovoltaics provide renewable energy help offset energy consumption. The result is an 89% reduction in energy use compared to a similar brand new home built to code requirements. RESILIENT. The home will fare well in extreme weather events. During a winter power outage, heat loss will be very slow due to the super-insulated and airtight envelope– taking multiple days to drop to 60 degrees even with no heat source. An engineered drainage system, paired with careful the detailing of the foundation, will help to keep the finished basement dry. A generator will provide full operation of the all-electric house during a power outage. OVERALL. The home is a reflection of the family goals and an expression of their values, beautifully enabling health, comfort, safety, resilience, and utility, all while respecting the planet. ZED - Architect & Mechanical Designer Bevilacqua Builders Inc - Contractor Creative Land & Water Engineering - Civil Engineering Barbara Peterson Landscape - Landscape Design Nest & Company - Interior Furnishings Eric Roth Photography - Photography

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The Yountville Residence was designed to accommodate three family generations coming together over food, wine, outdoor living and the land. Located amongst continuous vineyards on the broad flood plain of the Napa River, creating a strong sense of place was foremost. Rich in a culture of wine making and production from the land, the site demanded a design solution that honored its history and elevated the experience of the land. The house pays homage to its context by creating a reimagined agrarian compound. Conceived as a family of smaller buildings, the architecture comes together around a shaded patio and pool. The kitchen, dining, and living spaces all flow onto the shaded outdoor patio and gardens. Low-sloped gable roofs evoke the agricultural history of the region and echo the gentle slope of the foothills beyond. The home remains understated – quietly drawing one’s attention back to the magnificent natural features of the landscape. Gently pulled back into the heart of the serene vineyards, it is carefully oriented with Stag’s Leap at the foot of the Vaca Mountains to the East and the Mayacamas Range to the West. Scenic views continue uninterrupted through the home. Large window walls slide open and pocket on either side of the house, connecting the family to the outdoors and building a personal experience of place on the Valley floor. “If we can enrich people’s lives, and just maybe inspire them to do something beyond what they might otherwise have done, that brings us great satisfaction.” – Stan Field, fA Principal The connection of the architecture to the land goes beyond its visual connectivity. The design sensitively responds to land and place by recognizing key passive cooling and natural daylighting strategies present on the site. Broad overhanging roofs and the large slide away doors capture prevailing breezes up the valley. The patio, which is pulled close into a recessed cut-out in the main living space of the house, allows summer breezes across the pool to cool the house. Expansive windows and a narrow cross-section allow natural daylight to penetrate deep into the spaces and illuminate the rich and earthy palette of natural materials. The architecture created is a vehicle through which the powerful forms of the landscape craft a powerful experience of place. It is a respite from urban life, designed to bring one back to the basics: a love of family, land, food, and of course, wine.

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This is the living room and dining space in our Off The Grid Frontier Cabin. This was part of Weaver Barns' largest display ever at the Great Big Home and Garden Show in Cleveland, Ohio. We built this beautiful cabin inside the I-X Center in Cleveland so there wasn't much natural light. Once it is built outside though, these beautiful windows let in a great amount of light. This Cabin can run fully off of the Solar Panels that are optional. A state of the art generator stores the solar power and can run everything including the fridge. The wood burning furnace adds warmth to this cabin and a traditional feel to the room. The furniture was provided by our sister company Weaver's Fine Furniture of Sugarcreek. Our Amish Country Builders crafted this cabin beautifully and is ready to be used as a primary home, hunting cabin or secret retreat.

Here is a beautiful, quaint California indoor-outdoor living home with a clean looking solar power system. This model home uses the high efficiency SunPower solar panels to generate more than enough energy to offset the home's electric usage and allow comfortable sustainable living.

This is the kitchen area in our Off The Grid Frontier Cabin. This is right inside the front door. This was part of Weaver Barns' largest display ever at the Great Big Home and Garden Show in Cleveland, Ohio. We built this beautiful cabin inside the I-X Center in Cleveland so there wasn't much natural light. Once it is built outside though, these beautiful windows let in a great amount of light. This Cabin can run fully off of the Solar Panels that are optional. A state of the art generator stores the solar power and can run everything including the fridge. The wood burning furnace adds warmth to this cabin and a traditional feel to the room. The furniture was provided by our sister company Weaver's Fine Furniture of Sugarcreek. Our Amish Country Builders crafted this cabin beautifully and is ready to be used as a primary home, hunting cabin or secret retreat.

Nothing brings a room together quite like the exotic motifs of vintage Turkish kilim rugs. This oriental / Moroccan style area rug. A rustic, authentic look is perfect for adding a unique look in your floors. It has the power to completely change the character of a room. Soft underfoot, shed-free and easy to care. The rug features a combination of exotic hand woven tribal patterns, arrays of rich tones, braided tassel finish and flat pile shag texture which gives a bohemian flair to your home. Power hand loomed from 100% natural wool, this rug is exceptionally durable, hard-wearing, luxuriously soft, and easy to maintain. We've got just the rug for you, whatever your décor. Our traditional rugs underwent a meticulous process done by the hands of nomads in Turkey where the craft has been shared between generations. They are hand-woven using pure natural wool, hand-spun and hand-twisted most of the time, then dyed using all natural vegetable dyes. Rug Info Colors: Red, Yellow, Light Blue, Black, White Size: 6.3x3.3 ft / 190x100 cm Material: Wool Design: Moroccan Berber Tribal Kelim Features: Natural, organic, eco-friendly dyes Construction: Hand-Woven Cleaning instructions: dry cleaning or hand washing. No machine washing. Professional cleaning is recommended.

Millennials—the 77 million-strong generation born between 1981 and 1997--this past year surpassed the Baby Boom as the United States’ largest population cohort. This burgeoning generation currently represents one of every three homebuyers and we expect that this new and emerging demographic will reshape economic, business, and geographic marketplaces for decades to come. Bobby-Berk The Responsive Home project, a collaboration between TRI Pointe Group’s Pardee Homes and Hanley Wood’s BUILDER magazine, is a discovery lab for research, design and building practices to understand and activate the Millennial home buyer, now and over the next several years as they become of home-buying age. As a result of this collaboration, two concept homes, located within the Inspirada master-planned community in Henderson, Nevada were unveiled at the IBS show in Las Vegas in January 2016. These innovative homes are fun, quirky, and positively ooze personality, thanks in no small part to architects Bassenian Lagoni, landscape architects Anderson Baron and celebrity creative director Bobby Berk, who infused the designs with youthful energy. By design, the Responsive Home answers present and longer-term ownership living needs, providing a new home that young buyers can attain, personalize, adapt to their needs, and live in a connected, accessible way. Available in two floor plans, the Contemporary Farmhouse and the Contemporary Transitional blend livability with modern function catering to the most important request according to younger buyers – more space, specifically outdoors. Both home choices offer evolution-over-time floor plans with powerful indoor-outdoor workflow, technology-enabled automation, energy performance and bold design finishes. Homeowners can personalize their space in multiple ways including options for additional bedrooms, office or fitness room, casita and studio living spaces inclusive of separate home entrances, among others. Photo Credits: Brett Beyer

Antera Home Elevator The Cibes Symmetry Antera is a next-generation luxury home elevator that combines sophisticated European design with innovative engineering to deliver a truly elevated living experience. Designed for discerning homeowners, architects, and designers, the Antera offers exceptional customization, premium finishes, and advanced technology while making every floor of your home effortlessly accessible. Available in configurations with or without a traditional elevator shaft, the Antera provides remarkable design flexibility for both new custom homes and home renovation projects. Its space-efficient engineering minimizes construction requirements while offering the refined appearance and smooth performance expected from a premium residential elevator. Every Antera is built to complement your home's unique style with customizable cab finishes, elegant lighting, designer fixtures, and modern materials. Whether your vision is contemporary, transitional, or classic, the Antera becomes a seamless extension of your home's architecture while enhancing comfort, convenience, and long-term accessibility. Powered by Cibes Symmetry's proven machine-room-less (MRL) technology, the Antera delivers exceptionally quiet, smooth, and reliable operation with reduced maintenance requirements compared to many traditional residential elevator systems. Advanced safety features, intuitive controls, emergency communication, battery-powered emergency lowering, and intelligent obstruction detection provide peace of mind for homeowners and their families. Perfect For: Luxury custom homes Aging in place Wheelchair accessibility Multigenerational living New home construction Home renovations and remodels Universal Design and accessible living The Cibes Symmetry Antera is designed for homeowners who want more than just accessibility—it is a statement of luxury, innovation, and thoughtful design. With its flexible installation options, premium craftsmanship, and cutting-edge engineering, the Antera delivers a beautiful, future-ready home elevator that adds lasting value, convenience, and elegance to any residence.

The Yountville Residence was designed to accommodate three family generations coming together over food, wine, outdoor living and the land. Located amongst continuous vineyards on the broad flood plain of the Napa River, creating a strong sense of place was foremost. Rich in a culture of wine making and production from the land, the site demanded a design solution that honored its history and elevated the experience of the land. The house pays homage to its context by creating a reimagined agrarian compound. Conceived as a family of smaller buildings, the architecture comes together around a shaded patio and pool. The kitchen, dining, and living spaces all flow onto the shaded outdoor patio and gardens. Low-sloped gable roofs evoke the agricultural history of the region and echo the gentle slope of the foothills beyond. The home remains understated – quietly drawing one’s attention back to the magnificent natural features of the landscape. Gently pulled back into the heart of the serene vineyards, it is carefully oriented with Stag’s Leap at the foot of the Vaca Mountains to the East and the Mayacamas Range to the West. Scenic views continue uninterrupted through the home. Large window walls slide open and pocket on either side of the house, connecting the family to the outdoors and building a personal experience of place on the Valley floor. “If we can enrich people’s lives, and just maybe inspire them to do something beyond what they might otherwise have done, that brings us great satisfaction.” – Stan Field, fA Principal The connection of the architecture to the land goes beyond its visual connectivity. The design sensitively responds to land and place by recognizing key passive cooling and natural daylighting strategies present on the site. Broad overhanging roofs and the large slide away doors capture prevailing breezes up the valley. The patio, which is pulled close into a recessed cut-out in the main living space of the house, allows summer breezes across the pool to cool the house. Expansive windows and a narrow cross-section allow natural daylight to penetrate deep into the spaces and illuminate the rich and earthy palette of natural materials. The architecture created is a vehicle through which the powerful forms of the landscape craft a powerful experience of place. It is a respite from urban life, designed to bring one back to the basics: a love of family, land, food, and of course, wine.

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Antera Home Elevator The Cibes Symmetry Antera is a next-generation luxury home elevator that combines sophisticated European design with innovative engineering to deliver a truly elevated living experience. Designed for discerning homeowners, architects, and designers, the Antera offers exceptional customization, premium finishes, and advanced technology while making every floor of your home effortlessly accessible. Available in configurations with or without a traditional elevator shaft, the Antera provides remarkable design flexibility for both new custom homes and home renovation projects. Its space-efficient engineering minimizes construction requirements while offering the refined appearance and smooth performance expected from a premium residential elevator. Every Antera is built to complement your home's unique style with customizable cab finishes, elegant lighting, designer fixtures, and modern materials. Whether your vision is contemporary, transitional, or classic, the Antera becomes a seamless extension of your home's architecture while enhancing comfort, convenience, and long-term accessibility. Powered by Cibes Symmetry's proven machine-room-less (MRL) technology, the Antera delivers exceptionally quiet, smooth, and reliable operation with reduced maintenance requirements compared to many traditional residential elevator systems. Advanced safety features, intuitive controls, emergency communication, battery-powered emergency lowering, and intelligent obstruction detection provide peace of mind for homeowners and their families. Perfect For: Luxury custom homes Aging in place Wheelchair accessibility Multigenerational living New home construction Home renovations and remodels Universal Design and accessible living The Cibes Symmetry Antera is designed for homeowners who want more than just accessibility—it is a statement of luxury, innovation, and thoughtful design. With its flexible installation options, premium craftsmanship, and cutting-edge engineering, the Antera delivers a beautiful, future-ready home elevator that adds lasting value, convenience, and elegance to any residence.