Behind the wall tour (Seattle)

City Cabins behind the wall tour

Join award winning green home builder Martha Rose and Adrian Willanger-LEED AP, Saturday February 23, 2013 from 12 PM- 4 PM at Martha Rose’s newest collection of high-performance homes in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood. City Cabins Attendees will get the opportunity to see the advances building and product selections that go into a next-gen high-performance [...]

City Cabins’ Sweet Masters

city cabins Haiku

City Cabins’ Sweet Masters After my latest walk-through of Martha Rose’s newest high-performance  City Cabin™ homes currently under construction  in Seattle’s Columbia City I couldn’t help but get  very excited about the specialness of the top-floor master suites.  The sequestered top floor suite has all the amenities that are common at this price point; well appointed master bath, [...]

Next-Gen homes in Columbia City

City Cabins in Seattle

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 [...]

Builder adds lungs to her new homes

the new high-performance City Cabins

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 [...]

Columbia City: You might want to wait for one of these new homes

City Cabins at Columbia Station

Columbia City: You might want to wait for one of these new homes Coming in the Spring of 2012 is Martha Rose’s newest collection of high-performance homes City Cabins at Columbia Station.  These homes will be built to reach or surpass Building America’s goals for energy efficiency. The goal of Building America is to demonstrate [...]

Preparing for the change of season

Changing seasons in Seattle

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 [...]

City Cabins Priority Green

City Cabins at Columbia Station

City Cabins Priority Green As part of the City of Seattle’s suite of permitting incentives, City Cabins at Columbia Station will be using Seattle’s Priority Green residential permitting process.  The Priority Green expedited process shortens review times for single family, multi-family and commercial projects that meet typical green standards. Builder Martha Rose, President of Martha [...]

Green choices in Seattle

Energy Star homes for sale in Seattle

  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 [...]

Sustainable style: Green homes in Seattle

Green Built Homes in Seattle for sale

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 [...]

City Cabins selected for the 10X10X10 Green Building Slam

New Green Built Homes in Seattle

The 10X10X10 GREEN BUILDING SLAM celebrates the Northwest’s most innovative usage of green sustainable building concepts. Come watch 10 of your favorite architects and builders showcase their deep green construction projects, as they quickly show you behind the scenes accounts of their successes, lessons and surprises with each 10-minute, 10-slide presentation. City Cabins™ built by [...]

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