Overall northeast view
Fieldhouse
Late last year a couple approached us to adapt our Inside-Out House, a net-zero-ready prototype home design we created a few years ago to their newly purchased land in southern Vermont. We enlarged and customized the prototype design to suit their family needs and design goals. Along the way, we pushed the home design in new innovative directions through our collaboration together.
Rear view of renovation and addition
Upper valley additions and renovation
Kismet comes in unexpected ways. Sometimes it lies in plain site. Late last winter, a couple hired us to design a modern-spirited set of renovations and additions bought earlier the year before. The home was a plain 1960’s era single-level ranch with great bones and potential creative design. It lays next to his working beer farm in the hills of Vermont’s Upper Valley in a spectacular…
View of exterior
ZiG-Zag House 2 net-zero ready prototype
Periodically we develop prototype green home plans of various kinds. This one we call ZigZag House2. Its name comes from its simple floor plan with zigzagging small volumes at the entry and at a built-in seating alcove area. It's designed to be net-zero ready, simply conceived, and easy to maintain. A small home with livable spaces suited for a small family, empty…