Green Home Tour: Miss it Saturday? Continues today!

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So much going on Saturday, we made it to only one stop on the West Seattle leg of the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild‘s Green Home Tour before it wrapped up for the day. But the good news is, if you had that problem too, it’s continuing today (Sunday), 10 am-4 pm! Above, architect Sheri Newbold of live-work-play and contractor Anne Higuera of Ventana Construction (WSB sponsor), in front of tile work inside the “Kitchen Art House” tour stop at 2651 47th SW in the Admiral District. That’s one of four sites to stop at in West Seattle, and two of the others offer more workshops during the Green Home Tour today – from the list that’s been on the WSB West Seattle Events calendar, courtesy of Laura Elfline from tour co-sponsor Mighty House Construction – at her company’s stop on the tour, #19 (3108 SW Webster):

* Luke Marcum w/Markham Home Performance, thermal imaging camera on his side and a blower door too! 10 am-4 pm
* Eric Thomas w/Solar Epiphany highlighting the expandable solar systems | 11 am-2 pm
* Josh Brinkco w/International Studio – “making green look good!”
* Sandy Peterson w/Urban Land Army mobilized w/ her bucket brigade and all things about edible gardening | Noon -3 pm
* Make your own green cleaning supplies courtesy of CoolMom (while materials last!)

And at the Envision Homes stop on the tour, #16 (2216 Walnut SW):

11 am…Rainwater Harvesting and Indoor re-use
Noon…Recycled and Reclaimed
1 pm…IAQ…Low-toxic living
2 pm…Solar Thermal Assisted Heating
3 pm…High-Efficiency Building Envelopes

Though we’re just mentioning the West Seattle offerings, the self-guided Green Home Tour is regional – full details start here.

Laura Elfline April 17, 2011 (8:03 am)

We had a great day yesterday at “A Mighty House!” Some of our favorite comments:  
“I feel like I’ve seen this house in a magazine.”
“This is my favorite house I’ve seen on the tour.”  ”You’ve really done a little of everything throughout your house. Really nice.” 
“I’ve never heard of radiant ceiling panels before. They’re really producing nice heat.”
“I love the amount of light this skylight brings to this room.”

ToolShare April 17, 2011 (11:41 am)

Mighty House has kidnapped The Tool Library’s team of resident Experts! If they’re not back where they belong by the next Ask an Expert day, we’re coming for them!

Diane April 17, 2011 (12:50 pm)

Sure hope westseattleblog be visiting these sites today and taking pics; these folks have put a ton of work into this tour, very well organized, very informative with little signs throughout each house so you can learn about details of green building, and plenty of experts on hand at each home to answer questions
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I only made it to 3 of the WS homes on Saturday, all excellent; and each had different aspects of green building to learn about
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I met Sheri and Anne at the gorgeous Kitchen Art House; especially loved all the colorful tile work
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there was so much to see at Envision Home, and it was especially fun for me to see this fully developed, because I walked through this house a couple years ago when it was barely started; another gorgeous home, completely different from the 1st
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I enjoyed ‘A Mighty House’ the most; Laura was very generous with her time, taking me through every aspect of her beautiful home; they have so many incredible treasures from architectural salvage stores like ReStore, Second Use, and Earthwise, store close-outs, hand-me-downs, and dumpsters, all put to great reuse, most so fully integrated into their house that you would never know, and yet add such great flair (that so many homes lack); there are so many details, you may need to walk-through each room few times to see it all; fantastic!
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at ‘A Mighty House’, I’m sure I was one of many to comment “I’ve never heard of radiant ceiling panels before. They’re really producing nice heat.” and “I love the amount of light this skylight brings to this room.” and can definitely concur “I feel like I’ve seen this house in a magazine.” & “This is my favorite house I’ve seen on the tour.” ”You’ve really done a little of everything throughout your house. Really nice.”
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hoping today to get by the Tool Library at its new location at Youngstown on Delridge
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Neighborhood House also very worth visiting if you haven’t seen; they have windows on walls to see innards of what makes green aspects work; very educational, and another gorgeous space
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Thank you to all the dedicated Green folks for putting on this fantastic event!!!

Nulu April 17, 2011 (2:20 pm)

I too enjoyed all three WS houses and their varying degrees of greenness with the Envision home truly a lab for these emerging technologies.
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That said, two of the three were primarily publicity for the contractors who own them.
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I am disappointed that several tout compact flourescents as ‘green’ with their hazardous materials (mercury leakage when the fragile tubes break) and difficulty in disposal (not in your trash). The flourescents of this latest improved generation are not usually dimmable, generate heat, offer poor color rendering and poor light output.

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I had hoped to see some of the far more efficient, dimmable and non-toxic LED products just now entering the market. Home Depot’s proprietary line of ‘Ecosmart’ LED par lamps are truly a breakthrough – incredible efficiency, dimmable, good color rendering, non-toxic, low heat, non damaging to art, easily disposable, extremely long lived and higher lumens per watt and less expensive than the competing Philips and GE LEDs also sold at Home Depot.
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At $20+ per lamp they are still expensive, but a far greener alternative.
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I have not yet found any viable (tungsten 60 watt size) bulb shaped LEDs, although some are rated at 40 watt comparison.

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