Category: Rose Arevalo
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Design Details: Built-Ins
From making use of an awkward space to defining a room, built-ins offer a world of possibilities.
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FourPlans: Southern Exposure
Even if you’re not building in the South, consider how appealing a country-influenced plan can be.
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Winsome Windows
Sporting creativity, sustainability, and good looks of all kinds, the winners of this year’s myMarvin Architect’s Challenge have it all.
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FourPlans: Parking Space
Providing three garage bays makes a lot of sense if you want to attract multigenerational families. After all, that older child or live-in relative likely has a car and could use somewhere to park. Give them what they need with one of these home designs, none of which comes in at more than 2,600 square…
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Sizing up Green: Combining Big Size With Sustainability Goals
VertHaus, a New Jersey green developer, retrofits homes on spec. In this example, the home’s footprint increased from 2,300 to 5,000 square feet. Can it still be considered green?
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FourPlans: Drop Zones and Mudrooms
These four smart designs provide mud rooms or drop zones at that crucial intersection where garage meets home.
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8 Prefab Homes That Blend Creativity and Sustainability
A new book highlights the technology’s strong points.
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Sealing the Envelope: Secrets of Energy Efficient Buildings
Portland based developer Ed McNamara is keenly focused on building green and achieving high levels of energy, water and other resource efficiencies. And he’s obligated by HUD and other public financing partners to rent at below-market rates.
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Avant Blurs the Lines for Gen Y Designs
Avant Housing’s latest development, 1880 Mission in San Francisco, targets Gen Y renters with designs that blur the lines between work and play, inside and out, old and new.
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Design Details: Pools, Part II
With styles that range from lavish to low-key, in regions around the country, ideas abound for projects of all kinds.