Posted on June 19, 2010 by mmuhsam
From right here in our own backyard comes NovuStone, very cool handcrafted stone surfaces made with approximately 75% recycled content sourced from within 35 miles of it’s manufacture facility in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood. Of that 75%, 100% can be post-consumer recycled material. NovuStone is made from basically three ingredients: glass, a high performance ”portland-free” cement, and only a [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2010 by mmuhsam
We have been looking forward to this post ever since we learned that Dwell Development had chosen to put NovuStone countertops throughout all of the homes at 1105dwell. This is a very cool, green product. NovuStone is a local, hand crafted stone company fabricating their slabs in Seattle’s SODO district. Aside from the fact that their [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2009 by mmuhsam
Seattleites planning a move can avoid the routine hassle and cost of cardboard boxes by calling FROGBOX – a local outfit that delivers plastic, stackable boxes to your old house then picks them up once you’ve moved into your new place, introducing a word not normally associated with moving: Convenience. FROGBOX estimates that the greater [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2009 by mmuhsam
The structure is in place, the interior systems are coming along, and it is time to start applying the layers of material that will make up the exterior of Columbia City Green. Going back a few posts, after we framed the walls and roof structure, a layer of 4’ x 8’ panels was placed on the outside [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2009 by mmuhsam
With the structure of the house firmly in place it is time to start working “behind the walls”. When you stop to think about it, you regularly see only two surfaces in your home: the inside and the outside. It can be surprising to realize that almost everything that makes a home function is happening [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2009 by mmuhsam
Now that we have the foundation in place it is time to move on to constructing the exterior walls of Columbia City Green. To do this let’s first step back for just a moment to talk about how it is that we will connect the framing to the foundation. The most common method is to [...]
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