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Hidden Kitchen Range Ventilation

January 16, 2010

One of the hurdles in designing a minimalist kitchen layout is always the ventilation above the range. If you have the budget you can have options like beautiful steel and glass hoods or flush vents that pop up from the countertop only when in use. There are even really fancy, slim new vents that mount [...]

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Final Pictures from the Philadelphia Passive House

December 18, 2009

The Philadelphia Passive House is about to pass into the possession of its new owners. We held two final tour sessions of the home yesterday which were very well attended. Thanks to all of you who came out. Between tour sessions I took some final pictures, and while I may be adding to these over [...]

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Updates to PostgreenHomes.com – Kitchen Appliances

December 15, 2009

We are in the midst of some overhauls to the Postgreen Homes website which will continue over the next couple weeks. These changes are motivated by budget concerns, warranty issues, new product finds, basic improvements and other lessons of the past months. This is just the first entry in what will be an ongoing series [...]

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One More Kitchen Post For The Road

August 20, 2009

We received a lot of feedback on our kitchen and have revised some of our decisions. Thank you for your contributions. Throughout this post you will find renderings of the design reworked.
Just to give a bit more detail about the kitchen, it is approximately 14 feet long and the countertops are about 2 feet wide. [...]

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Are You Green With Kitchen Envy?

August 14, 2009

Its been a while since we have checked in with our progress on the Extreme Green Kitchen, but we want you to know that we have been designing a kitchen that promotes efficiency for water, electricity, and work flow. We looked at the common kitchen work triangle and decided that we could save you time [...]

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“Waste Equals Food”

July 20, 2009

We imagine a way of life where waste is significantly decreased by our Extreme Green Kitchen, backyard garden, and composter working together in a self-sustaining cycle. Many of you have probably heard of the concept “waste equals food.” William McDonough, architect, designer and author of the esteemed book Cradle to Cradle, developed the idea. Working [...]

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The Kitchen Project: Maximize Space, Minimize Waste

June 26, 2009

An update from our interns, Victoria and Megan, as they work to design a better kitchen for our homes.
One week down and many more to go on the way to the extreme green kitchen. In our first week of research and design we have come up with tons of features we would like to see [...]

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Custom IKEA Credenza to Hide Water Meter

October 31, 2008

On our site visit yesterday with Brian the Builder, we ran into a bit of a design issue that just sprouted its ugly head. The plumber on the job brought to our attention that since we don’t have a basement, we will need to install the water meter and main shutoff on the ground floor. [...]

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Recap of Pappajohn Custom Cabinet Meeting

September 10, 2008

Custom Green Kitchen Cabinets
Last week I met with Matt Pappajohn of Pappajohn Woodworking who will be making our custom, urban, green kitchen cabinets for the 120K House. Matt use our renderings and floorplans to come up with a concept and design that was also based on some of our previous discussions.

The material of choice will [...]

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Budget Reduction – Goodbye Custom Casework. Hello IKEA.

July 31, 2008

I guess it should come as no surprise that we are turning to IKEA for budget reductions in the kitchen and possibly bath as well. Maybe I was crazy thinking we could fit a custom, “Urban Kitchen” into the 100K budget or maybe I just wanted another project since I’m not busy enough already. The [...]

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