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Nic Darling

100k Signing Off

March 14, 2011

As most of you know, this blog was originally created to document the 100k House Project in all it’s intricate details. Over the course of that project we covered design, product research, mechanical systems, zoning process and much, much more. We tried to live up to our goal of transparency as much as possible and [...]

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Energy Performance Oversight and a Gas Guzzler Tax for Homes?

March 4, 2011

I know I owe everyone a redesign of our Performance Sticker and some talk of the various available home energy use metrics, but that is tall order, and I have been a bit short on time. So, instead I’m going to buy a little more time with a discussion of one of the lesser points that arose [...]

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Two Point Five + 1two5 + .54

February 23, 2011

We just settled on the Two Point Five Beta yesterday marking the completion of Postgreen’s eighth house. We don’t have final photography or LEED results yet, so this is just a quick celebratory post with a more comprehensive one to follow. This house is the first to feature our new 1two5 Cabinets in the kitchen. [...]

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Postgreen Homes Home Performance Sticker

February 15, 2011

We have talked about simple, mileage-style window stickers for homes before, but for some reason all that talk never led to action. We never actually created one for our own homes. Well, it’s time that oversight was addressed. I put together a draft version of a window sticker based loosely on the specs from the [...]

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Can We Upgrade Rental Grade?

February 10, 2011

Most of us have probably heard the term “rental grade” in reference to the finishes in an apartment or rental house. Finishes referred to in this way are usually chosen largely for low cost and/or high durability. Things like occupant health or design aesthetic tend to be secondary at best in a “rental grade” unit. This marginalization [...]

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Postgreen Rentals and a New Opportunity to Invest

January 31, 2011

Our business model to date has identified itself with home ownership, but we are also big fans of rentals. Rental units are a key part of an urban housing mix providing density, incubation for future homeowners and variety for those who just don’t want to be nailed down. If ownership offers a neighborhood a stable [...]

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Avant Garage Video

January 19, 2011

We have been playing around with some new ways to post video to our MLS listings and thought you might like to see where it led. As most of you know, we are on the verge of building four homes in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia under the moniker Avant Garage. These homes, which will [...]

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2011 Preview – A Brief Look at a Busy Year

January 3, 2011

Well, we have successfully navigated the holiday season, and as you can tell from our recent blog drought, we had a good time with our friends and family. We hope everyone out there enjoyed their own annual winter revelry and the penultimate moments of 2010. Now it is time to get down to the business [...]

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Two Point Five Beta Tour and More

December 20, 2010

The Two Point Five Beta is well on it’s way to being a real house, but before we get all the way there we thought we would take the opportunity to show it off a little. On January 6, 2011 we will be hosting a tour of the project. We will run the event from 3 [...]

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Where Are My Discounted Urban Mortgages?

December 16, 2010

I believe that mortgages should be biased toward homes in urban areas. This is not simply because such a bias would offer a positive response to global warming or the growing crises sparked by our energy gluttony (though its effect in those areas couldn’t hurt). Nor is it driven solely by my own love for [...]

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