The terroir of Rainier Vista

Living in Cloumbia City

The terroir of Rainier Vista Seattle’s Rainier Vista community can be described as an edge community, located just 12 minutes from downtown Seattle and 15 from SeaTac Airport by Link Light Rail.  The geographical location and connectivity gives Rainier Vista its terroir, its sense of place.   Rainier Vista is populated by people who choose to [...]

Go Green by adding daylighting

Green Built Homes in Seattle

An extremely cost effective way to add light to your home while saving energy cost is to add a tubular daylighting device, there’s no need for any structural reframing, drywalling or painting. Go green with natural lighting Tubular lighting allows you to turn off your lights during the day reducing both energy cost and environmental [...]

The Eve of Construction

City Cabins in Seattle

  Building high-performance homes for Martha Rose has been an evolutionary process since the 1970s. In 1979 Martha was part of a group that was responsible for creating one of the first Alternative Energy Fairs in Washington State. The fair featured over 50 exhibitors showcasing, solar, wind, wood recycling, conservation techniques that were more popular [...]

Will Gen X Buyers option for Green Built Homes in Seattle

Built Green Homes in Seattle

Will Gen X Buyers option for Green Built Homes in Seattle “March 17, 2011 – Generation X –young families and adults ages 31 to 45 – are likely to lead the home buying recovery as it gets underway, according to real estate experts who spoke at an educational webinar produced by the National Association of [...]

Seattle Net Zero Homes-Who Benefits? Buyers

Z-Home

A Seattle net-zero energy home (NZEH) is a grid connected homes that, over a course of a year, produce as much energy as they use.  The underlying purpose of these homes is to use the most sustainable energy with the least expense. Several homes in the Seattle area marketplace are targeting for net-zero, the recently [...]

New Green Homes on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill

city cabins

A new segment of the home buying population that has become increasingly frustrated with maintaining an older home are looking to re-establish themselves within an amenity rich urban neighborhood, wanting, still,  to be close to libraries, markets, churches, parks and fee from week-end home repair projects. Developers and builders are starting to see this trend [...]

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