City Cabins in Seattle getting close to lock-up The new high-performance City Cabins in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood are just about ready for “lock-up.” Typical when the frame and trusses have been completed, the exterior walls are up, windows and doors are fitted and roof has been completed the new City Cabins in Columbia City [...]
Next-Gen homes in Columbia City Seattle home builder Martha Rose, President of Martha Rose Construction, has embraced sustainability building standards. Rose voluntary targets various “beyond code” green building programs. Her newest City Cabins in Seattle’s Columbia City is an example of building a high performance that aligns with DOE’s Building America, Built Green and Energy [...]
High-performance living in Seattle Home builders in Green Building resources for King County are building to some of the toughest energy, air quality, stormwater management, and water standards in the country. Many Green Builders in the Seattle area are finding a niche market for building beyond these standards to give homeowners the added value [...]
How to be a smarter green home buyer in Seattle Buyer’s looking to purchase a green home in the Seattle area is more than likely looking at how their new purchase will impact their lifestyle and quality of life. Walkability, natural resources consumed during construction, energy efficiency, indoor comfort and the overall impact the home [...]
Permits have been issued and the ground work will begin next week on Martha Rose’s new City Cabins™ at Columbia Station in Seattle. This event is not only ground breaking but ground breaking in the sense that home owners will get a totally next-gen high-performance home without paying a “green premium.” The amazing thing to [...]
Trendy energy saving device The Nest Learning Thermostat has been around for several years, invented by ex-Apple designer Tony Fadell. While at Apple Fadell design the iPod and ran the iPod and iPad divisions while at the company. So it’s not much of a surprise that a ground breaking home energy saving device like the [...]
Builder adds lungs to her new homes Builder Martha Rose of Martha Rose Construction has added a heat-recovery-ventilator (HRV) to all of the new homes that her company has built over the last 5 years. The HRV units provide fresh filtered air into all of the homes living areas 24/7 while exhausting the stale air [...]
Preparing for the change of season In Seattle we’re doing rain dances, after 48 days of no rain in the Seattle area we finally received a ¼ inch on Monday. I never thought I would use Seattle and no rain in the same sentence. Late August and early September days have been beautiful in the [...]
Buying a new home or existing house in the Seattle area is one of the biggest purchases you’ll ever make. By choosing one that has earned the government’s trusted ENERGY STAR label, you can have the house of your dreams and enjoy peace of mind knowing it’s been built to meet strict energy efficiency [...]
What’s there not to like about a green built home? Most of these homes are designed with utility, functionality, and energy efficient in-mind. Building a healthy, durable and efficient home may be considered by many as being very altruistic by builders choosing to differentiate themselves by green building. Just from a basic standpoint green homes [...]
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