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{Re}habitat
Learn how adaptive reuse and upcycling can add hip design to your home, apartment, or yard with the Go Green channel's {Re}habitat series. Follow host Rachael Ranney as she shows you how to repurpose salvaged and found materials, adding fun and function to your space without breaking your budget.
A single-family home conceived as a series of pavilions harmonizes with its site, while showcasing several art-meets-architecture pieces.
David Stark Wilson, AIA, is one of those rare architects who pursues passions beyond his profession. An avid mountaineer and photographer (his third monograph is soon to be hot-off-the-press), Stark Wilson’s love of nature is evident in his built work, particularly in his designs’ relationships with their sites and his subtle incorporation of texture and color. He founded the design/build firm WA Design in San Francisco’s Bay Area in the mid-1980s. Since then, the firm has completed a range of residential and commercial projects including the Saratoga Creek House, for which it simultaneously served as architect and contractor.
Staff housing for the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, inspired by the colorful forms found in local art, is designed to be sustainable and also resistant to seismic forces.
Sorg Architects, an international architectural firm, has created sustainable staff housing for U.S. Embassy staff members stationed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Construction on the housing units will begin in March 2012 and is scheduled to be completed in January 2014.
Will home automation become something that we can’t imagine living without? Jeff Wilson takes us on a tour of a design showroom that highlights some of the time- and energy-saving benefits of automation.
Home automation sounds a little intimidating. Just the mention makes me think of the USS Enterprise on Star Trek – seamless integration of controls for everything from lighting and sound to heating and air-conditioning to security and energy-efficiency. Oh, and don’t forget to set those phasers to stun.
Authentic panels save time, money over polypropylene and deliver an aesthetic first
Bringing installation ease and a highly desirable ledgestone aesthetic, new Foundry Stacked Stone siding expands The Foundry’s Stone Collection of premium vinyl siding. Foundry Stacked Stone features bold, rugged texture cast from hand-selected North Carolina quarried stone, an enhanced coloring process that delivers scores of vibrant undertones and tonal differences, and an innovative first for the stone siding market - the only textured grout line for added authenticity.
First Step to a Successful Converging Pocket Door Installation
Written by Johnson Hardware Tue Feb 14 2012New “How-To” Video Features Modular, User-Friendly Format and Vivid Animation
Converging pocket doors offer an ideal solution in situations where conventional swinging doors would rob too much space or where a room’s design or furniture would encumber swinging doors. This videoshows how to make a dramatic double pocket door installation simple and easy. The secret is the Johnson Hardware converging pocket door kit, which connects two pocket door frames. Converging pocket doors take up no wall space and save up to 28 sq. ft. of floor space. The video demonstrates how to complete this project properly in the shortest time possible. The 11-minute video describes the process in a dozen steps via crisp animation that moves at a manageable pace and lets the viewer stop and review scenes as needed.
Installation Instructions for Pocket Door Frame From Johnson Hardware
Written by Johnson Hardware Tue Feb 14 2012Here are some typical questions about space–saving pocket doors and building tips for installing pocket door frames:
New Bronze Wall-Mount Hardware Offering Greatly Expands Design and Decorating Options
Written by Johnson Hardware Tue Feb 14 2012
Green Home of the Month: Ross Street House in Madison, Wisconsin
Written by Lisa Taylor Minor Tue Feb 14 2012This month’s featured home in Madison, Wisconsin, is the personal residence of Carol Richard, AIA, LEED AP, and founding partner of Richard Wittschiebe Hand, an award-winning firm in Atlanta, Georgia.
Architect Carol Richard isn’t new to the challenges and rewards of designing and building green homes. In fact, she has spent her entire career helping her clients to marry livable, modern aesthetics with sustainable design. So when she and her husband, mechanical engineer Fred Berg, began to make plans to build their full-time residence upon retirement, the experienced duo was determined to pour all of their collective knowledge and expertise into a sustainable-living dream home.
