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Building Unique Homes for Creative Living

Four Unique & Inspiring Energy-Efficient Homes
Seattle House view of 4th floor stairsText Box: Using green building concepts, like Small Foot Print Designs, Minimal Land Disturbance an Tree Removal, Recycling Fallen Trees and Waste Lumber for Erosion Control and Landscaping Mulch, Recycling Construction Debris, Insulated Concrete Walls, Radiant Heat floor systems, Renewable Resources and Products such as Solar Water Heating and Bamboo Flooring, Utilizing Products with recycled content. Each home is designed with energy-efficiency as the top priority with care taken to maintain a creative and inspiring living experience for the home owner.

Features of Northside Heights Homes
Photograph of the Seattle house from the ground upText Box: Embedded in the acid-stained concrete is a radiant heat floor system that is thermostatically controlled. It runs off the household hot water system circulating through the floor to provide constant heat. This type of warmth is more comfortable than traditional heating systems and does not create allergens. Text Box: Each home is designed with a loft. Lofts provide interest as well as additional gathering areas to get away while not being away and expand the living space in each home. Text Box: The exposed concrete slabs are acid-stained and sealed, providing a beautiful and unique floor for these homes. The radiant heat floor system keeps these floors warm to the touch in the winter and cool in the summer.

Lofts

Stained Concrete Floor
Photograph of a brown acid-stained concrete floorhydronic floor prep at Schmidt HousePhotograph of loft over kitchenText Box: Each uniquely designed bathroom is fully tiled from floor to ceiling to provide a rich, crisp look. We also utilize glass walls and block to allow for maximum light and openness. Text Box: The main living areas are pre-wired for audio speakers. Each living room is wired for surround sound with additional speaker wiring from the same location going to each deck, porch or balcony. Text Box: Each room has a modular wiring jack that supports cable, internet, & telephone. All of this wiring terminates in a Patch Panel for expansion and modification, which is located for accessibility.

Surround Sound Wiring

CAT5 Structural

Seattle House 1rst fl bathroom photo

 

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Text Box: Bamboo is chosen because it renews itself in 3-5 years, providing a very green building material that is highly durable and beautiful. The flooring used is a solid material that compares in hardness to most traditional oaks, and can be refinished in the same way as any solid wood flooring. Text Box: Because of the uniqueness of design, most trim and molding are custom designed. Stair and loft railings are custom-designed as well using non-traditional materials. Text Box: To maximize usability of the living and kitchen areas, custom lighting is designed and combined with traditional lighting to allow for a wide variety of lighting combinations and experiences.

Custom Moldings, Rails and Trim

Custom Lighting

Seattle House liv rm lightsSeattle House loft photoPhotograph of hallway stairwell with custom rails and trimText Box: Creative living includes outdoor spaces as well. We provide a number of creative decks, balconies and porches in our designs to maximize the living experiences available to our homeowners. Text Box: Each home is designed to be low maintenance for the homeowner. Pigment-dyed Stucco exterior combined with decorative steel siding, provides a low maintenance home. Soffits and Fascia are constructed of fiber cement board that has a longer life-span than wood.

Low Maintenance Living
Photograph of the front of the Seattle House from the streetPhotograph of skyline view from 3rd floor balcony

Radiant Heat Floor Systems

Fully-Tiled Bathrooms

Bamboo Flooring

Decks, Balconies and Porches
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Text Box: The insulated concrete walls provide a higher than average insulating value, and the large thermal mass of the concrete creates a thermal performance of the system that is well beyond any conventional construction methods. The thickness of the walls also allows for beautiful window seating areas. Text Box: Inspired by the Not So Big House principles, small footprints and creative use of space goes into designing these homes. Each site is planned to maximize the passive solar potential for each home combined with the insulated concrete walls, these homes provide a high energy-efficiency. Awarded the Best In-fill Development 2006 in Athens-Clarke County by the Athens Ga. Grow Green Coalition.

Insulated Concrete Walls

Award-winning Design and Site Planning
Photo of the Insulated formsSeattle House Front View photo structured wiring panel240 view of loft from kitchen240 stained floor photo