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  1. #151
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gepeto View Post
    This is nice to enjoy and makes lots of style points, but the energy loss, heat - cool - air quality.
    Never mind total carbon foot print impact .
    depends on climate and orientation and performance of materials

    Quote Originally Posted by Gepeto View Post
    Quality of life

    LEEDS; money/time/energy well spent or pissing it into the wind?
    LEED is for marketing purposes. The effort to do the right thing environmentally is worth it to me, and you don't need LEED for that.
    When people see the bill, not everyone wants to pay for the privilege of locally sourced stuff or low VOC or high performance envelopes...sort of like organic food.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigDaddy View Post
    but have met and dealt with Cutler. I hate him
    Beautiful work but I've heard similar reactions from others

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bromontana View Post
    This topic is out of my element Gepeto, but this is what my dream involves... ~1,200sf house with regular ceiling height but large winders. A/c costs should be zero where I want to live (8k+). Don't need it custom or fully post modern design.. just want to be able to enjoy the surrounding environment even while inside. Those dramatic 30' ceilings in post modern castles have zero chance of intersecting with my life. I know next to nothing about the details of LEEDS but did pay extra for solar offsets as far back as college .
    you might like this house...very energy conscious. It has supplemental heat, but basically is heated by the people/pets in it and the appliances. By thoughtful thermal cycling, no a/c reqd...
    architect is a friend of mine
    http://www.insituarchitecture.net/skidmore-passivhaus/

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    very cool - his beach house is a stunner with the view.

    http://static1.squarespace.com/stati...g?format=1500w

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    Some day when I'm not on my phone I'll type up the saga of our place in Mass. I have some architect stories for sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by acinpdx View Post
    you might like this house...very energy conscious. It has supplemental heat, but basically is heated by the people/pets in it and the appliances. By thoughtful thermal cycling, no a/c reqd...
    architect is a friend of mine
    http://www.insituarchitecture.net/skidmore-passivhaus/
    Nice house. I could handle living there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flatlander#2 View Post
    So much of the dream house custom build stuff I fail to comprehend. So many of them in my neighborhood end up being either these grand lodges filled with 2 people and a bunch of shitty "mtny" decoration or odd layouts and seem to be losing bets the minute the keys are handed over.

    There is a main floor master, two masters upstairs house that sits on a great lot, great trees, sun, very nice looking house, etc. Go to look at it and the upstairs are literally two 800sqft master bedrooms on either side of a study, put your 8 & 10yr old kids in there and they're lost. They were asking $2M, I think a widow bought it after sitting on market for over 2 years. Another let his wife build this godawful Greco Roman disaster, 10ksqft, columns, enough shitty faux painting to choke a horse, infinity pool to water the elk, 2 masters on one level, 2 one another level. The guy that built it owns the Dodge dealership in Golden on Colfax, tried to sell it for $10M or some horseshit amount, there was supposed to be an auction on it last year, he still lives there. Another built on 20 acres at the very back of their lot-10 feet from the line, neat house, great outside area, but their neighbor built a big fucker of a riding arena literally 10 feet on their side of the lot, see it from the kitchen. Huge fight, for sale now at $1.8. If you're an architect and what you do daily is design this stuff, that sucks honestly.

    There are presently 2 on my street for sale at just under $3M, this is one
    http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/21...54889654_zpid/
    LOL at the $5,000 price cut. That'll bring em in running!
    I still call it The Jake.

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    well, it's not 3 million anymore.
    "fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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    I'm reconsidering some things after this thread. $3MM gets you a LOT more in Evergreen than it does here.

    Sorry, I meant $2.995MM
    I still call it The Jake.

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    I don't know the Evergreen market well but it may be susceptible to the same thing as here. Around here, you can get a TON more in the hills above Boulder than you can get in town. The main reason: fire. Any place in the hills is at pretty decent risk.
    "fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
    "She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
    "everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy

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    Quote Originally Posted by iceman View Post
    Bolin's "Ledge House" (near the bottom of the right column) was built for a friend who still owns it. Pretty spectacular. Lots of stories about working with Bolin. Pretty prickly guy by all accounts.
    Bolin gets credit for Gates house: http://bcj.com/projects/pacific-rim-estate/

    I guess Cutler was the chief designer? Anyhow, it's a crazy 66,000 sq ft monster built into cave in Bellevue. A friend lived nearby and it took ten years to design and build. Gate's owns the electronic rights to several famous pieces, and I heard he projects holograms throughout the "compound".

    Looks like a shit storm to me, and I wouldn't want to paint it... oh wait, yes I would:

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    Quote Originally Posted by acinpdx View Post
    LEED is for marketing purposes. The effort to do the right thing environmentally is worth it to me, and you don't need LEED for that.
    Very true. My biggest gripe with LEED is that other than the residential version there is no attempt to reduce the size of building. Everyday I drive past the huge UVM student center. It's at least ten times the size of what it replaced. If you want to reduce environmental impact you have to reduce space.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    I'm reconsidering some things after this thread. $3MM gets you a LOT more in Evergreen than it does here.

    Sorry, I meant $2.995MM
    You could be, my neighbor. It is 35 miles from my driveway to the Loveland parking lot.

    That dropped house is a divorce situation, wife is late 40's cougary, still holding onto it pretty well. Fuck fire it's the elk that suck balls. I bet we had close to 100 the other night. Tear things all to shit, piss everywhere, destroy my aspens. I sic the Aussie after them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigDaddy View Post
    Anyhow, it's a crazy 66,000 sq ft monster built into cave in Bellevue.
    Holy balls. I built the doors and some of the finish work on a 20,000 sq ft beast in Midland Texas. It was a spanish mission nightmare. The guy bought up half a cul-de-sac and built his house around it in a half domus, with a pool / hot tub in the middle - MTV cribs style. Guy spent over 300k just on 9' tall white oak doors.
    Last edited by brice618; 08-30-2015 at 07:55 AM.

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