New high-performance homes in Columbia City open Sunday Seattle's newest high-peformance homes in Columbia City will be open Sunday September 22, 2013 from 12-2PM. Martha Rose’s new high-performance City Cabin™ homes in Seattle’s Columbia City are an equal part of retro styling with futuristic technology. The high-performance City Cabins are a blend of utilitarian objects and building materials that have been utilized into design features throughout the development of the high-performance homes. Open beamed ceilings with stained plywood ceiling are not only part of the structure but are worked into the retro-craftsman finished styling. A … (1 comments)
High-performance City Cabins open Sunday in Seattle The much awaited high-performance City Cabins will be open Sunday July 18, 2013 for tours and sales from 1-3PM. Built by award winning Green home builder Martha Rose the new City Cabin homes focus on long term durability, energy efficiency and indoor comfort. The 5-Star Built-Green homes include over $50K worth fo quality uprades as standard features. For more information on the new high-performance City Cabins visit CityCabins.com or contact Adrian Willanger @ 206 909-7536.
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new homes in seattle: Buying A New Home In Seattle - You'll Need To Call In A Professional Moving Company
- 04/11/12 11:20 PM
Buying A New Home In Seattle - You'll Need To Call In A Professional Moving Company If you are buying a new home in Seattle you’ll have to call on the services of a professional moving company to help you out. I have seen too many problems come about by people trying to move on their own and then realizing at the last-minute that it was a bigger project than it first appeared to be. Making moving plans can be a very stressful undertaking when you have just purchased a new home, but when you add onto it the actual … (0 comments)
new homes in seattle: City Cabins to be completed mid-January 2012!
- 12/27/11 03:13 AM
City Cabins to be completed mid-January 2012! The much awaited 2 high-performance hi-tech homes built by award winning Builder Martha Rose Construction in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood are due to be completed in mid-January 2012. The near net-zero homes are filled with hi-end energy efficient equipment that is a perfect compliment to the hi-tech building techniques used to build City Cabins. Rose has developed a solid reputation for building award winning hi-performance homes and building in the Seattle marketplace has continually pushed the energy-efficient envelope. The building and design of City Cabins should be Rose’s most energy-efficient homes so far. Homes will be open … (2 comments)
People-centric Homes in Seattle near completion Multi-certified green homes in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood are approaching completion. The much talked about garden style City Cabins built by Martha Rose Construction have pulled out all stops to complete these near net-zero homes before Christmas. Vegetated roof installation, patios made from recycled pavers, and a light sanding and polishing of the reclaimed plank flooring is all being done this week. The construction of these homes takes a bit longer than traditional built homes, approximately six months once the foundation has been poured. The people-centric floor plans appeal to a large segment … (2 comments)
new homes in seattle: View the star of “Deadliest Catch” from City Cabins
- 11/11/11 02:36 AM
View the star of “Deadliest Catch” from City Cabins Arguably, one of the stars of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch is the crab fishing boat “Sea Star” seen weekly weathering the rough Bearing Sea. The Sea Star’s off season home is Seattle’s Fisherman’s Terminal. Fisherman’s Terminal is located in the Interbay neighborhood of Seattle sandwiched between Magnolia, Queen Anne, Ballard and Fremont neighborhoods. The dock of Fisherman’s Terminal is the home of the bronze and stone sculpture “Fisherman’s Memorial” with plaques memorializing the more than 500 local fishermen and women who have been lost at sea, the statue and the Sea … (0 comments)
new homes in seattle: The Art of Sustainable Building in Seattle
- 11/04/11 04:49 AM
The Art of Sustainable Development in Urban Seattle The art of sustainable development starts by analyzing the building site and coming up with a site design that protects natural and other features that exist on the site. Builder Martha Rose elected to reuse a large percentage of the existing foundation from the existing 1940 duplex for their latest urban project City Cabins in Seattle. Retooling and reusing the existing foundation was a key component in reducing pollution from construction activities by minimizing soil erosion, topology disturbance, waterway sedimentation and dust that would have taken place if they had elected to use traditional … (10 comments)
new homes in seattle: Queen Anne-Magnolia New Home Construction YTD Activity
- 09/26/11 05:55 AM
Construction starts in the Seattle areas of Queen Anne Hill and Magnolia lag behind 2010 levels. In August of 2011 there are 11 new homes for sale in Queen Anne and Magnolia compared to 25 for August 2010. The average price for a new home in one of these areas start is $1,333,582 compared to $844,144 in 2010. Market times have been drastically reduced for year-to-date (YTD) new home sales in these areas from 130 days in 2010 to 85 days in 2011.
With high the higher price tags on new construction it will be interesting to see if … (2 comments)
new homes in seattle: City Cabin Kitchens: Color, textures, shapes and energy saving appliances
- 09/09/11 11:29 AM
Seattle, Wa.-September 9, 2011 The new 2011 City Cabin kitchens will be a blending of under cabinet LED lighting, revitalized style ceiling lights, natural wood tones incorporated with stainless steel creating a feeling of confidence, simplicity, energy efficiency and visual appeal. A moveable island will add to the flexibility and overall appearance of the fresh kitchen design, adding overall depth as well as a staging area for wine and food service. A slight urban-industrial theme is tempered by a unique lighting package, stainless steel counters, vibrant backsplashes and a custom designed lighting feature that is suspended from the 9’ ceiling … (4 comments)
Seattle green builder Martha Rose, owner of Martha Rose Construction, is testing the market to see if potential buyers are willing to choose location, more energy efficient homes over larger homes. Rose’s new homes, City Cabins on Queen Anne Hill, will be about 1900-2000 square feet, packed with energy-efficiency and westerly views of Salmon Bay and the Olympic Mountains. The new homes will be the most energy-efficient homes Rose has built. An award winning Green builder Rose has stayed out ahead of the rapidly changing building codes for a decade and is pushing the envelope with their latest collection. … (2 comments)
Martha Rose Construction latest project, City Cabins on Queen Anne Hill, is pleased to be a part of EPA’s ENERGY STAR program and will work to improve energy-efficiency and fight climate change. Part of the commitment is to make sure the two homes, City Cabins, is at least 15% more efficient than homes built to the 2004 International Residential Code (IRC), and include energy-saving building and equipment that will on average be 20-30% more efficient than standard homes. Rose’s goal for the new homes in Seattle is to get as close to net-zero as possible, this could be a … (2 comments)
Seattle home builder Martha Rose, president of Martha Rose Construction, was recently interviewed by NPR’s Wendy Kaufman at Rose’s latest project City Cabins on Queen Anne Hill.
By Wendy Kaufman A quote from the article, "It's not until we are getting ready to list the property for sale, that's when the nerve-racking time [is]," she says. "If you build it will they in fact come? Does that work?"
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new homes in seattle: The Solution Multiplier on Queen Anne Hill
- 06/15/11 01:03 PM
At first glimpse the new homes being constructed on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill, by Green builder Martha Rose, look like the many infill homes that have been built in many of Seattle’s neighborhoods for the last 5 years.
Rose’s new design is different, it offers a model that will save people money, increase indoor air comfort, and will help the new homeowners conserve energy along with leading the way to help reduce America’s dependency on foreign oil.
City Cabins on Queen Anne Hill are the little homes that can, help create green jobs, focus on protecting the environment, … (0 comments)
June 6th 2011 was the official ground breaking for City Cabins on Queen Anne Hill. Site logistics have been going on for the last several weeks, a detached garage was deconstructed and some of the lumber was used to make temporary stairs and a job shack. This is just a small part of green building reusing and repurposing as much of the old existing materials as you can, careful steps are taken at every phase of the construction process to eliminate and reduce waste.
The slab flooring in the existing 1940s duplex that been jack-hammered into … (1 comments)
These are just a one of the question home sellers and particularly developers are looking at to jump back into the Seattle Real Estate Market.
The above chart, Case-Shiller Price Cumulative Decline ranking, shows the twenty largest real estate markets in the United States, Seattle ranks eleventh with an accumulative decline of 29% from December 2007 to February 2011.
The below chart compares the two Queen Anne Hill zip codes 98119 and 98109 to the rest of Seattle, the median sales price in the two Queen Anne Hill zip codes showed showing upward price … (0 comments)
new homes in seattle: Swank Hybrid Ready Garage on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill
- 05/12/11 08:21 AM
Queen Anne Hill in Seattle has for years have had an eclectic mix of environmental savvy residences. To tap into this marketplace award winning green builder Martha Rose, president of Martha Rose Construction, Inc. in Seattle, is building the detached garages of their new homes City Cabins to be electric-car ready.
The detached garages at City Cabins will have a private sky-bridge that connects the garages to the main structures. The urban setting is perfect for the vegetated roofs that will be installed; on top of the waterproof membrane will be drought tolerant locally grown sedums from Etera in Mount … (1 comments)
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