Custom New Homes, Net Zero & Positive Energy Homes

A Taste of the Adirondacks

Green Builder Green Home of the Year Award Winner

This five bedroom, 4-1/2 bath custom home was designed to look and feel like an old-fashioned Adirondack lodge home, with exposed hemlock beams, tongue and groove pine cathedral ceilings, and fieldstone fireplace.

One of the owners’ main goals was to incorporate strategies and materials that would make this home a leading example for how one of the greenest homes in the country, that approaches a net zero energy standard, could also be among the most luxurious. The home has earned multiple certifications and won numerous awards.

Green Builder magazine selected it as the outstanding home in the US for its “Best Use of Advanced Building Technology” for their 2010 Green Home of the Year Awards program. An article on the house was published in their December “Awards” issue.

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Special Features

Open-style layout with great room open to a chef’s kitchen
Master bedroom on main floor with en-suite bath
Recycled red and white oak flooring
Recycled white oak used to build custom kitchen cabinets
Recycled glass countertops
Hemlock beams inside and outside, sustainably sourced in Massachusetts
Stained concrete floors with hot-water radiant heat
Plaster finish on main floor walls
Extensive stone veneer on exterior
Siding is sustainably sourced white cedar shingles
Roofing is recycled plastics made to look like slate
Porch with stone fireplace and mechanized screens
Large pool kept in the 80’s all summer with solar energy

Green Building Approaches

Foundation is a heavily insulated pre-cast concrete product manufactured off site
Walls and roof are framed with 24” spacing and horizontal strapping to reduce thermal bridging
Insulation is primarily water-blown spray foam.
Solar hot water panels on the roof heat a 1,000 gallon water tank, which stores the heat and distributes it to heat the house and domestic water via both hydro air and radiant floors
Any remaining heat required is provided by a pellet-fired boiler which operates automatically
Solar photovoltaic panels are pole-mounted and supply almost all of the electricity used each year
All lighting is either energy efficient LED or CFL
Charging station for electric car
Composting toilet in master bath
Grey water system uses peat moss to recycle shower water for use in the toilets
Extensive rain water harvesting for landscape irrigation
Bio-swale and rain garden used for storm water management
Extensive organic plantings with vegetable garden, orchard, and permaculture