green home marketing: New High-Performance Homes in The Seattle Area on The Rise
- 03/23/18 10:11 AM
New High-Performance Homes in The Seattle Area on The Rise
Over the last five years, we’ve seen somewhat of a market transformation in home building in the Greater Seattle area. Increased demand for energy efficiency and healthy homes that are LEED, Energy Star, Passivhaus or Built Green certified homes.
High-performance homes are becoming in greater demand.
A popular green building program in the Greater Seattle area is Built Green a voluntary home building program in King and Snohomish Counties. King and Snohomish Counties have some of the toughest building codes in the country. Builders in the voluntary Build Green program build beyond county codes focusing on energy & water conservation, indoor air quality, stormwater management, … (0 comments)
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green home marketing: Simply a Better Home, Open This weekend (10/10/15 1-3 PM)
- 10/09/15 08:09 AM
Simple a Better HOME
To achieve the 5-Star rating, the homes used extensive green building strategies starting with the use of pervious concrete for the entirety of the community entrance and driveways. There are no lawns in the community, and each home boasts a 2,600 gallon rainwater collection tank. Due to the numerous energy efficiency strategies, the homes are modeled to use 67 percent less energy than a home merely built to code. Each of the homes features a 3KW solar array, evacuated tube solar hot water systems, and 90 percent efficient heat recovery ventilators.
Open … (1 comments)
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green home marketing: High-Performance Home open Sunday in Seattle
- 10/03/15 07:53 AM
High-Performance Home open Sunday in Seattle
Built by award winning Green Home Builder Martha Rose. This 5 Star-Built Green home will be open Sunday October 4, 1-3 PM
15753 Greenwood Avenue North Seattle, WA 98133
NWMLS# 844579
Join
Adrian Willanger for a tour and see first hand what makes this home special.
For more information:
Contact Adrian @206 909-7536 Adrian@adrianwillanger.com
Built Green home for sale in NW Seattle
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green home marketing: The Art of Demolition (in Seattle)
- 07/08/14 01:58 AM
The Art of Demolition
Seattle high-performance home builder Martha Rose, president of Martha Rose Construction, Inc., has made it a habit to carefully deconstruct any structure that is on any of the building sites she purchases. Rose’s latest site Indian Wall where a 1960 duplex was deconstructed making way for two new high-performance homes will be built was dismantled board by board and nail by nail. The job of dismantling an old structure is dirty and difficult at best and one can only imagine is it worth the extra effort?
Undoubtedly it would be easier to bulldoze and haul off … (4 comments)
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green home marketing: Seattle high performance builder builds a “pretty good house”
- 04/03/14 03:33 AM
Built Green homeowners survey
Seattle high performance builder builds a “pretty good house”
Over the last five years we’ve seen somewhat of a market transformation in home building in the Seattle area. Increased demand for energy efficiency and healthy homes that are LEED, Energy Star, Passivhaus or Built Green certified are in demand.
Many builders are still building what sells and aren’t going the extra distance to make their homes sustainably better. High-performance home builder Martha Rose, President of Martha Rose Construction Inc., has been building multi-certified high performance homes ever since the rating systems were established.
Built Green … (9 comments)
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green home marketing: Rose's high-performance City Cabins in Seattle sold out
- 12/12/13 12:39 AM
Rose's high-performance City Cabins in Seattle sold out
Martha Rose's latest project, City Cabins™ at Columbia Station, is sold out. The high-performance homes featured a nice blend of authenticity and sustainability in building techniques and materials used to build the homes. The home’s “back to the basic” approach of design was extremely well received.
Home buyers liked Rose’s approach to interior finishes that included open beam ceilings, concrete floor, stainless steel counters and the bountiful use of Ponderosa Pine for the kitchen cabinets and the home’s finish work.
The super-insulated City Cabin™ homes were equipped high-end Energy Star … (4 comments)
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green home marketing: Where does your state rank in energy efficiency
- 11/06/13 11:30 PM
Where does your state rank in energy efficiency
Energy efficiency measures are booming throughout the United States. Many states including Mississippi, Connecticut, Illinois, and West Virginia have taken major steps to help them move up in the seventh annual edition of the State Energy Efficiency Scorecard, released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficiency Economy (ACEEE).
Massachusetts tops in energy efficiency measures
Massachusetts retains the top spot for the third year in a row due in a major part of its commitment to its Green Communities Act. Read the full state by state rankings.
Methodology
The 2013 State … (6 comments)
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green home marketing: City Cabin high-performance homes: Sold, sold, pending, contingent
- 11/06/13 12:23 AM
City Cabins high-performance homes: Sold, sold, pending, contingent
With two closed, one pending and one contingent the success of Martha Rose’s new high-performance City Cabins has been very well received into the market place.
The popular cross-genre City Cabins can easily fit into a “form + function” definition as well as a craftsman styling with futuristic technology description. Both metaphors fit equally well. Technologically the homes offer a nice alternative to traditional building with high-efficiency appliances and equipment, all LED lighting, heat-recovery-ventilator, solar-panels (in 3 of the 4 homes), garages wired for electric charging stations and plugins for smart devices are all included as … (3 comments)
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green home marketing: America’s Homes, City Cabins
- 10/11/13 01:09 AM
America’s Homes, City Cabins
When award winning green home builder Martha Rose, president of Martha Rose Construction, started the planning process for their newest collection of high-performance homes in Seattle’s Columbia City a few things were extremely important to focus on in the planning stage; future proofing and affordability.
Rose, primarily a spec-home-builder, is continually challenged with keeping the cost inline when building high-performance homes without sacrificing the quality and energy efficiencies they’ve become known for.
Waste reduction, building efficiencies and experienced construction workers help reduce some of the construction and material cost that can easily escalate quickly if you aren’t … (6 comments)
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green home marketing: Electrifying: The high-performance City Cabins gaining traction
- 09/26/13 02:51 AM
Electrifying: The high-performance City Cabins gaining traction
The all-electric new high-performance City Cabin™ homes, built by Martha Rose Construction, in Seattle’s Columbia City are starting to get some serious interest. After a post Memorial Day opening where buyer traffic was less than expected the pace has quickened to the point where two sales have happened in the last 5 days.
“The recent weekend open house traffic has been very good” mentions listing Broker Adrian Willanger. “The jumping-off point was when we got our Home Rating Energy Certifications.”
“We could talk about the home’s super-insulation package, LED lighting, triple pane windows … (7 comments)
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green home marketing: New High-Performance City Cabins open Sunday in Seattle
- 09/22/13 01:24 AM
City Cabins at Columbia City
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)
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green home marketing: The City Cabin Electric Company
- 09/21/13 03:26 AM
The City Cabin Electric Company
The new City Cabin high-performance homes can be classified as electrifying! Perhaps the type of homes Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla envisioned in the early 1880s when trying to maximize the electric current output. All the all-electric City Cabin homes have been built and designed to save the home owners on utility costs as well as increased indoor living comfort.
The virtually air tight City Cabins™, have a HERS rating of 55 for the outer units and 39 for the middle units. The HERS Index is the nationally recognized scoring system for measuring a home’s … (3 comments)
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green home marketing: New high-performance homes in Columbia City open Sunday
- 09/06/13 12:22 AM
New high-performance homes in Columbia City open Sunday
Seattle's newest high-peformance homes in Columbia City will be open Sunday September 8, 2013 from 1-4PM.
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 new alternative to traditional built homes
Insulated … (9 comments)
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green home marketing: The cross-genre City Cabins
- 08/14/13 01:28 AM
The cross-genre City Cabins
Martha Rose’s new high-performance City Cabin™ homes in Seattle’s Columbia City are an equal part of retro styling with futuristic technology. Not surprising when you sit down and talk to the builder Martha Rose who’s been in the building industry for over four-decades.
The 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.
Insulated concrete floors, high-performance insulation and triple pane windows … (8 comments)
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green home marketing: High-performance homes in Columbia City with a green attitude
- 07/26/13 02:18 AM
High-performance homes in Columbia City with a green attitude
The newest green built development in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood has carefully integrated social and environmental goals into their new high-performance City Cabins™ homes.The just completed homes are what the developer likes to call "solution multipliers", features that provide multiple benefits in reducing the overall impact on the environment and cost savings payback to the homeowners.
The infill development is the last buildable land within the Rainier Vista phase one site. The developer/builder Martha Rose used many low-impact-development strategies to help reduce stormwater runoff on the site. The most … (6 comments)
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green home marketing: The new high-performance City Cabins have a Tesla sized garage
- 05/16/13 02:39 AM
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 ready to take advantage of the emerging eclectic car market could be one of technological features that is integrated into the high-performance City Cabins that should appeal to a segment of the market that is looking for these features and haven’t found in most new urban in-fill developments. … (5 comments)
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green home marketing: New City Cabin homes in Seattle include all LED lighting
- 04/29/13 02:26 AM
New City Cabin homes in Seattle to 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 with the ENERGY STAR lighting package as a standard feature. The advance lighting package includes qualified Energy Star fixtures and an LED light bulbs throughout the homes interior adding increased lighting performance, quality and help reduce home … (3 comments)
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green home marketing: High-performance City Cabins in Green Home Tour
- 04/06/13 04:32 AM
High-performance City Cabins in Green Home Tour
Martha Rose’s collection of high-performance City Cabin homes in Columbia City will be one of the 26 homes featured in this year’s Northwest Green Home Tour Saturday, April 27, 2013. This year’s Green Home Tour is broken in to 4 regions: North Seattle, Central South & West Seattle, Eastside and Bainbridge Island. An impressive display of green home systems and features, DIY info and resources, plus sustainability stops in between! And it’s all FREE!
The 5-Star Built Green City Cabins offer a wide range of sustainable choices and benefits and are located … (3 comments)
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green home marketing: Re-wakening neighborhood ties
- 03/20/13 03:10 AM
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green home marketing: City Cabins: Blacksmithing and energy-efficiency a perfect combination
- 03/04/13 05:30 AM
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 natural building materials into finished products while adding interesting architectural elements throughout. Blacksmith-Artesian Silas Maddox, owner of Forge & Nail, has been contracted to add elements of beauty that also serve a function and create longer lasting value to the project. Maddox … (12 comments)
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