What’s Going Up? – The Bend Bulletin
Article on airport hangars under construction at the Bend Airport.
What’s Going Up | | The Bulletin.
Market Drives Efficiency & Smaller Homes
Great article in The Bend Bulletin this morning: New values | News | The Bulletin. Greg Welch quoted in article on smaller homes in Northwest Crossing.
SIP home breaks ground in Tumalo,OR!
SIP home located in Tumalo, OR. This custom home will feature many green upgrades in addition to the great wall insulation. Durable flooring, tankless hot water and a closed loop radiant floor heating system. Home design by Muddy River Design, LLC.
Financed Solar?
Think these guys are on to something. I’m looking into it for my personal residence. http://www.solarcity.com/ $6,000 out of pocket to install or finance!
Universal design in Bend?
I feel universal design for single family homes is overlooked in Bend today. What an under-served market, especially when the boomers are getting older. I met with Susan Duncan with The ABC’s of Accessibility, Inc. at a home that was designed and built in 2008 for a gentleman in a wheelchair.
I found homes can easily be designed and built for the same cost as a normal single level home with no accessibility features.
Picked up The Visualizer Set and got to work on a few designs. Great tool.
Northwest Crossing gains national recognition!
Northwest Crossing was one of 48 worldwide developments highlighted in a book published Oct. 1st by Washington D.C. based nonprofit that tracks development projects that effectively use land.
Read more here: http://tinyurl.com/yfggf58
Example of home in Northwest Crossing shown to the left. Designed by Muddy River Design, LLC and built by Greg Welch Construction.
Issued COB Bldg Permits for Oct09
View issued permits here: http://tinyurl.com/ykllfka
Older build, but no curb appeal!
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Efficient design, but lacks style. Why paint the house peach? Corner boards should never be painted the trim color unless it’s a tudor style home. Shutters are nice, but the porch columns need work. And the front door, why use the half circle window….it dates the house.
This home would look better with more “Georgian” elements applied. Such as a chimney or gable over front door. Maybe some dormers?
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-13
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- http://twitpic.com/p1yio – NeighborImpact Home under construction! #
- Article in the WSJ about "Right Sized" Residences…http://bit.ly/3D4dfi #
T1-11 with a touch of lodge…
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Another example of a production home. Again, design is driven by maximizing the square footage on the lot. This is an inefficient design, notice shed roof on side of garage. This requires large beams spanning over garage spaces.
Again, why the log handrails? Why mix cedar shakes with T1-11 and again with the stone on the sides of the garage. And to top it all off, the material colors could have been expanded upon.
Designer: Unknown
Builder: Unknown
