FreeGreen, an online source for green house plans, recently announced a strategic pivot to make homes better and cheaper. The company wants to give homeowners the opportunity to save money by helping them get involved in some of the finish work. FreeGreen has a DIY series of house plans, and the first design — the DIY Shed — isn’t value engineered to meet a budget. It’s designed so that certain portions can be finished by the homeowners themselves.
This is The Shoebox House in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It’s an award-winning design — Citation Award from the Santa Fe chapter of the AIA — that also captured LEED Platinum certification with 88 points, a phenomenal feat given some of the challenges. Architect and builder Gabe Brown, Praxis Design/Build, was able to put a 1,700 square foot home on a 2,300 square-foot L-shaped lot, while still giving the owner a separate art studio, a gallery-like living room, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a study.
Below is a general outline of our coverage from April. In terms of our new articles, two articles lit up on Facebook: this one about the TINY movie trailer and another about a solar-powered container house. Also, as always, we’re interested in learning about inventive green homes and new green products around the USA. If you have news for JetsonGreen.com, send us a tip.
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A sleek modern design, the Caroma Flow gives you enough reason install it even before looking at gallons per minute. At 1.5 GPM, Flow is among the lowest flow showerheads on the market. (A limited few low-flow heads have been recorded at 1.25, 1, and even .55 GPM.)
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