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New Postgreen Homes Model – Avant Garage

August 25, 2010

It has a kind of cheesy name, but that doesn’t make the concept any less cool. Postgreen Home’s has introduced a new model built around an existing zoning plan that called for garages. Working with ISA, we came up with some concepts for a model that incorporates the garage and creates an exciting split level [...]

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Where We Sleep: The Master Bedroom Question

July 22, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about bedrooms recently. It could be because I have a little girl who keeps me from spending a whole lot of time in what I call my bedroom (a corner of our living room). Or, it could be because we are soon to be building a home with a [...]

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Mary Mary Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow?

July 1, 2010

With silver bells and cockle shells? Hopefully not if you live in Philadelphia. First of all ‘silver bells’ is now classified as an invasive species and cockle shells are poisonous if ingested. So, Mary had things kind of wrong. It’s important to know what you’re planting and to understand the conditions of where it is [...]

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Richlite Countertops: Paper is No Longer Just for Taking Notes

June 29, 2010

Amanda is an intern at Postgreen and will be posting semi-regularly on products she is researching. Be sure to give her good feedback as any one of these products might find their way onto the Postgreen Homes site and into one of our houses. Based in Tacoma Washington, Richlite® Company has released countertops which are [...]

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Two Point Five – The Next Postgreen Homes Model

May 26, 2010

We are about to release our newest Postgreen Homes model and felt that we should throw it up here for some discussion first. Up until now we have limited ourselves to two story buildings. We have hung well below the height limits set by zoning and tried to perfect that old school Philly staple of [...]

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Excellent New Video on the 100k House

May 18, 2010

A new video was just released on the 100k House, and it is definitely the best one we’ve seen yet.  The video was made by Babelgum, and we are very impressed with their work. Everyone interviewed sounds fairly well prepared (which I have trouble believing was true), and the house looks great. The shoot itself [...]

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The Vented Rain Screen via Furring Master

May 14, 2010

It occurred to me that we haven’t really written a good post dedicated to vented rain screen assemblies. A rain screen is basically a gap created in between the sheathing of a house and the exterior cladding. It is considered by most building experts to be the most durable method of building an exterior wall [...]

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Postgreen Triplex Conceptual Rendering

April 14, 2010

We have taken a look at the potential floor plans for the proposed Triplex, and I have told you about the zoning meeting going on tonight. Now it’s time to share a snapshot of what this thing might look like should we build it. Some explanation: The siding will be fiber cement cut into two [...]

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Our Top 10 Priorities When Building a Green Home on a Budget

March 22, 2010

You may have heard of the phrase “money is no object.” It is apparently a combination of words reserved for people who also own private islands and have buildings named after them. It is also occasionally thrown around by politicians when they want to protect democracy or get reelected. We have never actually heard it [...]

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Tezuka Architects Japanese Design Inspiration

March 11, 2010

I had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Takaharu Tezuka of Tezuka Architects give a lecture at UPenn recently. Tezuka is one of my favorite Japanese firms that has been producing amazing homes for about two decades and is getting into some interesting larger commercial commissions as they have grown in the past 5-10 years. If [...]

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