Inspiration: Simple Home on a Hill in Chile
This simple home was built a few years ago on a hill side in Chile, and was designed to be low impact both in appearance and in its use of materials. Total cost? About $15,000......
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Flashback, Flashforward: Building With Solar Storage Tubes
Some technology just doesn’t change. Around for decades, water storage tubes provide thermal mass to moderate indoor air temperatures. Use to store heat during the day and keep warm at night, you ...
Recycled Glass Driveway by Filterpave
Instead of a concrete or gravel driveway, the Cordell Shipping Container House has a driveway made out of recycled glass. It's called Filterpave, a combination of granite and 100% post consumer was...
The Story of a Bench: Part 1
Okay, we’ve finally decided to do it – get a bench made for the landing strip. We’ve been thinking about it for over a year, and have started the process to work with Green Sawn to make a cust...
How Bad Is Fake Wood Furniture For The Environment?
Slate Magazine
When it comes to furniture in our home, one of the greenest things we can do is to invest in quality pieces that'll last forever and won't end up in a landfill a few years later. But quite often th...
A Warm Shipping Container House
Dwell
Although we really like the idea of shipping container houses, a lot of the time they look so spare and cold. We wouldn't really want to live in one. We feel differently about Kevin Freeman and Jen Fe...
Lukas Petrash's Trash House: Cheap, Small, AND Green
Architectural Record
Lukas Petrash was only 23 years old when he built this 484 square foot house for $24,500 in response to a challenge given by the president of the Sustainable Builder's Guild in Huntsville, Texas. U...
Look! A Seasonal Vertical Garden
Many big cities share the same characteristic of tight lots and side yards with little room to grow plants and unsightly views of neighboring homes as close as a few feet away. In the Lincoln Park n...
Duckpond: Building A Sustainable Home
We were first introduced to Duckpond, an Australian website, about a year and half ago via one of our daily "go to" stops, Desire to Inspire, and we've been following John and Cecilia's progress in b...
No-Dig Deck Using Dek-Block Piers
We've been dreaming of a patio for outdoor entertaining for quite some time, but the cost and materials have been a bit overwhelming. But then yesterday we stumbled upon a product at the hardware st...
Kirei Bamboo Board: A New Look for Bamboo Countertops
We love, love, love the feel and eco-friendliness of bamboo countertops, but we haven't always imagined that the distinct bamboo color would work for our particular taste in kitchenware and we also dr...
Affordable and Strong: Corrugated Materials
Cardboard boxes are corrugated for strength. So goes it for corrugated sheet metal. And plastic. On top of that, these materials are readily available, efficient, and economical, too. Some designs t...
Dan Phillips and His Homes Made Out Of Trash
The New York Times
In a town about 70 miles north of Houston, Dan Phillips and his company Phoenix Commotion have built 14 low-income homes built (essentially) out of trash: roofs made out of license plates, ceilings ...
Sustainable Building Ideas from Austin's CMPBS!
If you’re into the latest innovations in green building design, you must check out this local non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging more sustainable design and building practices… ...
A Rammed Earth House in Wyoming
Natural Home magazine
When we hear the words "rammed earth," our minds immediately conjure up images of hobbit-like houses carved out of hillsides. However, that is definitely not the case with Tom Ward and Katherine Reey'...
Experiments With Consumer-Level Solar
Recently, consumer-level solar energy for the home has been gaining more steam. In Austin, folks are moving beyond public solar art and are harnessing the sun's energy for their homes. If you're hopin...
7 Easy Ways to Reuse a Plank of Wood
Chez Larrson
Have a piece of scrap wood and don’t know what to do with it? Chez Larrson has come up some creative and super easy ways to reuse a plank of salvaged barn wood, and incorportate it into the home. ...
How To: Build a Cob House for $3000
Blood, sweat and tears. That's what we imagine it probably takes to build a Cob House (made of clay, sand and straw). But Brian — aka Ziggy — did just that: he built his own Cob House ...
Reading in Public: The Project & the Chair
The Reading in Public project is a celebration of the "written word by way of community performance in public spaces." Their current project is to provide a mobile Reading Chair on which members of ...
Offset Window Screen from Old Wood Lathe
In attempt to create more privacy and block some of the sun streaming through one of their back windows, Jason and Jennifer of Humphrey House first tried traditional lattice but found it "underwhelm...
Chicago’s First LEED Platinum & Zero Net Energy Home
We’re in lurve with this house: it's gorgeous, modern and super innovative. Slated to be one of Chicago’s first LEED platinum homes and run the city's first residential grey water system, the ho...
Cement Fiberboard: Eco-Friendly Siding
If you’re looking to replace or upgrade your existing siding, cement fiberboard is a great material to consider. Less maintenance than wood, more durable than vinyl (and less toxic) and guaranteed...
Inspiration: Modern and Vintage Salvaged House
Dwell Archives
How's this for mid-day inspiration? Take a look at the gorgeous and sometimes surprising mix of modern lines and vintage curves. This remodeled house makes beautiful use of timbers that were salvaged ...
Lumenhaus: Green Home Inspired by Mies
Lumenhaus is Virginia Tech’s 2009 entry to the US Solar Decathlon competition, an educational project of the U.S. Department of Energy supported by DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Thi...
Cool Roof Shingles by GAF
With last month's New York Times article touting the benefits of cool roofs, Energy Secretary Steven Chu promoting them, and Energy Star now offering tax credits for having them, we think it's about...
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