We love when we see old homes that have been renovated to maintain their original charm. So we swooned over these photos of a Boston renovated townhouse by Brown Fenollosa Architects. They took the existing structure of this beautiful old home and transformed it. Light, space, character. Perfect.
This is lovely, but how is it specifically "green"?
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Love it, but how was the "original charm" maintained?
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Green or not this is a beautiful space and as mentioned- Perfect. Original beams left in place a heavy nod to the brick, structural steel placed conservatively (to bad about the one post in the living area; BUT, form is first), the typical jagged lines of the stairs are exhanged for smooth tansitions from floor to floor, windows that lightly reflect the use and strength of steel in the home, and are those pine plank one could go on and on....
As for as green?? Not having to, let alone wanting to, remodel a house every 10-20 years is a start. Improving light flow into the space reduces electricity, (and before you can say it) double pane thermal insulating rated windows and skylights have to be better than the originals and so on and so on...
As stated if one was to live in Boston this would be quite Perfect.
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