O2K Updates
How rare it is to take a house and invest a lot of time, effort, and money, and in the end, make it smaller. Now that’s where green building starts. We then make a dramatic upgrade to the energy efficiency of the shell, and the mechanical systems. We take a very leaky, cold, drafty home, and seal up the shell, upgrade the windows, fill the floors walls and roof with dense pack, and loose fill cellulose, and trade the inefficient heat for a split ductless heat pump. And, of course, the foundation of all this is a design by Aaron (Whitney, now with 2fORM Architecture), that takes a bit of a discombobulated mish mash, and turns into a unified whole that feels like it’s always been there.
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- An interesting fan to save
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- This needed to change
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- The out of place 2 story addition
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- The old, and very elegant radiant heating system
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- Existing kitchen – We’ll save most of the cabinets, but we do shuffle them around
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- Planning how best to restore, knowing we wanted to keep this great timber work
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- Notice the 2 story addition at the end of the driveway
