[Durham INC] FW: [erwin-neighbor] Upcoming Green House events

[Pat Carstensen]

>From Erwin-area list-serve
 

 



Thinking about building an addition or
remodeling the kitchen?  Planning a dream house?  Thinking about
an active solar water heater?  Need a new roof and/or gutters? 
Interested in healthy, energy-efficient design and materials?

 

You are cordially invited to a slide-show
presentation on the 

 

Christie/Hartley Green House located in Piney Mountain
(off Mt. Sinai Road)
in the Erwin Area Neighborhood

 

Two choices:

 

Saturday, January 23, 2010

2 to 3 pm

 

new Flyleaf Bookstore in Chapel
 Hill (752
  MLK Jr. Blvd beside
Foster’s)

 

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

7 to 8 pm

Regulator Bookstore in Durham

 

Come see and hear about the passive solar, Modernist home
designed by owner/lawyer Deborah Carnes Christie and architect/builder John
Hartley 

 

Green House:  a comprehensive introduction to eco-friendly
residential building and renovation.

 

Green
House: The Story of a Healthy, Energy-Efficient Home
(2009, soft cover, 208 pages, ISBN-13:  978-0-615-31891-2, US$24.95)
provides a user-friendly yet detailed description of eco-friendly residential
building and renovation from the perspective of North Carolina
owner/designer/lawyer Deborah Christie.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Green-House-Story-Healthy-Energy-Efficient/dp/0615318916/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261008053&sr=1-1

 

Green
House offers owners and
building professionals easy access to a model of 21st century home
design and construction.  Energy-efficiency
is attained through the use of passive solar design, light reflective
metal roof, super-insulation (borate-treated structural insulated wall
panels which are also termite-resistant), high-efficiency HVAC equipment and
appliances, and an active solar hot water heating system.  The choice of
low-pollution interior built-in cabinetry, paints, window-coverings, flooring,
exposed ducts and mechanical ventilation assure a home which is healthy
as well as energy-efficient. Seamless covered gutters, exterior
stucco and fiberglass-framed windows and doors reduce on-going maintenance and
exterior mold.  The Green House design is older-age friendly, specifying one-level
living with few interior doors, and wide, straight, day-lit corridors in place
of artificially lit, narrow hallways.  Acoustical insulated ceiling panels
assure a no-echo
interior, an important aspect often overlooked in residential
and commercial spaces. 

 

In addition to its eco-friendly
functionality, Green House has a
great look.  The Green House
(both the home and the book itself) demonstrate the Modernist aesthetic of open interior floor plans
with vaulted ceilings, large and numerous windows, long exposed beams,
extensive use of glass to bring in natural light, and geometric forms.
The Green House works for the
everyday life of its residents, and visually delights and entertains its visitors.

 

The Green House plans may be purchased to
gain a head start on a renovation or building project by e-mailing
dchristie59 at yahoo.com.

 

A slide-show of the
Christie Green House can be seen
at www.flickr.com/photos/38457541 at N08/show/. 


Review of Green House
at:  http://greenliving.suite101.com/article.cfm/green_house

 

Book cover visual attached; house shots
indoors and out + plans available on request

Photo
credits: © Deborah Carnes Christie, 2009

For more information,
and to obtain a copy of Green House, contact:

Deb Christie -
919.489.6171 - 919.452.8215 - dchristie1 at nc.rr.com

 






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