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Posts tagged “Washington”

Seabrook Mixed Use Community:
An Example of New Urbanism, and Somewhere I'd Love to Live

Green, mixed use communities are popping up all over the country - emphasizing an intelligent combination of housing, recreation, shared space and community involvement. Seabrook mixed use development...

House Tour: Amy's Green House Goes Platinum

Name: Amy Occupation: Real Estate Agent Location: Mt. Pleasant in Washington, DC Type: row house built in the late 1800's Size: 1900 sq/ft Years lived in: owned for 2 (renovations took a year) >> E...

Blogging NPR.org: This Old House ... Minus the Toxins

Well, it wasn't cheap ... but, one year and $500,000 dollars later, Amy Levin has turned a three-story 19th century home in Washington's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood into a green pad. It sounds like i...

NextGen 'Disaster Resistant' Demo Home in West Seattle

The NextGen Home Experience is a project out of Bellevue, Washington, that seeks to showcase the features that would theoretically define the home of the future: connectivity, disaster resistance, e...