The new high-performance City Cabins have a Tesla sized garage

High-Performance City Cabins

 The new high-performance City Cabins have a Tesla sized garage The four new high-performance City Cabin homes in Seattle’s Columbia City detached garages are wired for electric charging stations.  The single car garages are large enough to house the new 196 inch Tesla S.   Having a house, or more specifically a garage, that is [...]

New City Cabin homes include all LED lighting

 Award-winning Green home builder Martha Rose, President of Martha Rose Construction Inc. in  Seattle Washington,  has been building high-performance homes that are equipped with energy-efficient lighting, appliances, hot water, and heating and cooling equipment that meets or exceeds EPA’s Energy Star’s rigorous guidelines since the program started.  Rose’s new collection of high-performance City Cabins™ located in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood  comes complete [...]

City Cabins: Blacksmithing and energy-efficiency a perfect combination

Home builder Martha Rose’s newest collection of  hi-performance City Cabin homes, currently under construction, in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood are a blending of old school cabin design elements into an  extremely  energy-efficient building envelope. Borrowing from the Arts and Crafts movement Rose is strategically integrating bits and pieces of the pre-industrial faction into City Cabins, carefully blending [...]

New Construction open house in Columbia City (“Behind the Walls Tour”)

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    City Cabins 2860 South Nevada Street,  Seattle WA. 98108  Advance Framing & Other Features  Design of homes and choice of equipment is based on “Home as a System” approach 1” closed cell foam under plywood wall sheathing provides a thermal break and performs better in an earthquake. R-value: 28 4” of closed cell [...]

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 [...]

Columbia City Soul + Green Homes, a perfect fit

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Columbia City Soul + Green Homes, a perfect fit                                                                                             [...]

Stainless the new granite

Seattle high-performance home builder Martha Rose has selected to add a bit of a commercial look to their latest collection of City Cabin homes in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood.  Rose has decided to use stainless steel for the counters and back-splashes in the City Cabin kitchens. A one piece seamless counter, sink and back-splash are costumed designed and fitted [...]

Green Home Building – Eye Candy for the Pocketbook

City Cabins at Columbia Station streetscape

Green Home Building – Eye Candy for the Pocketbook Seattle home-builder Martha Rose, president of Martha Rose Construction, Inc., embraces the concept of durability, functionality and the virtues of relaxing at home while spending less to maintain your new home.  Currently about 25% of new homes are built green projected to reach 50% in the upcoming years, [...]

City Cabins in Seattle getting close to lock-up

City Cabins in Columbia City

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 [...]

The anatomy of a high-performance spec home in Seattle

City Cabins at Columbia Station

The anatomy of a high-performance spec home in Seattle The new high-performance homes, City Cabins at Columbia Station, follow a long lineage of green built homes built by Martha Rose of Martha Rose Construction. The new City Cabins in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood are destined to be energy efficient, durable and extremely comfortable to live in.  The [...]

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