ENERGY STAR Home

Any home three stories or less can earn the ENERGY STAR label if it has been verified to meet EPA's guidelines.

Energy Star Homes are typically 20-30% more energy efficient than standard homes – why?  Energy Star homes incorporate these eco friendly features:

1. Effective Insulation
2. High-Performance Windows
3. Tight Construction and Ducts
4. Efficient Heating and Cooling Equipment
5. Efficient Products
6. Third-Party Verification

The benefits of building an energy efficient home are plenty:

LOWER OWNERSHIP COST
Compared with standard homes, ENERGY STAR homes use substantially less energy for heating, cooling, and water heating-delivering $200 to $400 in annual savings.

Over the average 7 to 8 years you may live in your home, this adds up to thousands of dollars saved on utility bills. Additional savings on maintenance can also be substantial. Financing your home purchase using an energy efficient mortgage can also lead to savings.

BETTER PERFORMANCE
Properly installed energy-efficient improvements deliver better protection against cold, heat, drafts, moisture, pollution, and noise. An energy-efficient home helps ensure consistent temperatures between and across rooms, improved indoor air quality, and greater durability.

SMART INVESTMENT
To date, more than 8,500 home builders have partnered with EPA to construct more than 1 million ENERGY STAR qualified homes. The trend is clear. By choosing a home with the ENERGY STAR label, you can be confident that it will have an increasingly valued feature when the time comes to sell.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Did you know that your home can be a greater source of pollution than your car? In fact, 16 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are generated from the energy used in houses nationwide.

Energy used in our homes often comes from the burning of fossil fuels at power plants, which contributes to smog, acid rain, and global warming. Simply put, the less energy we use in our homes, the less air pollution we generate.

Source:  energystar.gov

beautiful creations home design and natural living Garren is located at Bend

beautiful creations home design and natural living Garren is located at Bend, Oregon. house designed by renowned architects, Garren life located in the high desert grassland and is building a very low-slung, with elements of a strong horizontal to visually tie the building to the landscape. with a suitable design and location of the home make this house is very healthy.

From the architects:

Three parallel to the axis of orientation toward the wall, protruding eyes and determine the space outside the small footprint extending into the landscape. This structure has a central void that further integrate the exterior and interior. This void space provides natural light into the basement as well as providing a private meeting room in the middle of the house exterior.

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Desain minimalis

Desain minimalis, sejarah, definisi dan kriteria








Pada dasarnya, pembangunan awal gaya arsitektur modern adalah konsep yang terpisah. Bersama dengan penyebaran di dunia dan kemajuan teknologi pengaruk, budaya, semakin itu terjadi perkembangan yang lebih baik daripada konsep-konsep modern seperti kelahiran konsep arsitektur postmodern, maksimalis dan minimalis.

arsitektur postmodern adalah sebuah konsep bahwa seni, ilmu teknologi, menggabungkan dan krajinan. Bangunan postmodern dipandang lebih pluralistik dan bervariasi daripada pendahulunya adalah sebuah konsep modern. Beberapa contoh bangunan postmodern adalah kelas dunia Cina Sarang Burung Stadion Nasional.

Atau posting di negara kita, istilah ini kadang-kadang digunakan dalam hal konsep modern arsitektur klasik modern, arsitektur modern, etnik, arsitektur tradisional modern, arsitektur kontemporer Bali, dan sebagainya. Atau jugadengan panas kontemporer istilah modern.

Adapun arsitektur minimalis adalah pengembangan konsep modern. Jadi konsep minimalis asritek sering disebut sebagai turunan dari arsitektur modern. Memahami arsitektur minimalis dapat dibandingkan dengan gaya arsitektur lain maksimalis arsitektur.

Arsitektur maksimalis kita pahami sebagai karya orang hakim berlebihan atau kadang-kadang sebagai bagian biasa dari arsitektur.

Jauhkan unsur-unsur dasar pembangunan seperti yang kita bahas di atas
Pertama.Tempat di mana arsitektur tersebut dikembangkan. elemen ini konsisten dengan ilmu arsitektur bahwa lokasi atau situs bangunan merupakan elemen penting dalam salah satu pertimbangan desain utama, dan karena itu tidak diragukan lagi bahwa konsep modern lahir di kawasan barat akan perbedaan dengan konsep modern di Indonesia, yang sangat berbeda dari situasi di lokasi geografis tertentu. Dan arsitektur Indonesia seharusnyalah memiliki konsep sendiri arsitektur modern

Kedua. kemajuan teknologi. Kemajuan teknologi akan melahirkan konsep-konsep baru dalam dunia arsitektur. Dalam hal metode perencanaan, bangunan, atau struktur

Ketiga. Keadaan sosial atau pola hidup. Hal ini sejalan dengan Masyarakat sebagai penikmat komponet pertimbangan penting arsitektur desain arsitektur, sehingga seseorang akan mampu mewujudkan dari adanya keamanan, Kenya mana, estetika yang ia inginkan. Nilai kehidupan modern, banyak perberbedaan barat dengan negara timur nilai-nilai kehidupan modern. Dan itu akan sangat mempengaruhi pemahaman konsep arsitektur Indonesaia.

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Modern Luxury Design Bedroom Set from Pop Collection by Altamoda Company

Luxury bedroom set from Pop collection by Altamoda company, is well known among lovers of luxury and chic furniture, an excellent solution to create a bright interior design and glamorous. All furniture by surprise a little flashy colors and unique shapes. The main elements of this set is a round bed with the head of a beautiful bed that reminded crown. The bed completely covered by soft textiles, thus making it more luxurious. In addition, this room all fully equipped with the usual white was completely absorbed and a large bath. Such as bathroom sinks, which are both enriched with colorful flowers that glow with charm. Probably not many people could decide to make a room like that, but it could be interesting for fans to find such a glamorous style.

Perfection modern themed bedroom design in the era of 2010

Luxury House in Dionysos from Nikos Koukourakis

Greek artist Nikos Koukourakis has completed this baroque abode in Dionysos, a residential suburb in northeastern Attica, Greece which is amid about about 23 km northeast of Athens.

The Dionysos home has a admirable azure bluff which combines abundantly with the absorbing basin in creating a archetypal abreast home. Large and blubbery windows actualize a acceptable affiliation with the exoteric while ensuring admirable views.

Luxury House in Dionysos from Nikos Koukourakis

New Luxurious Apartment Design in Romania

New Luxurious Apartment Design in Romania

This beautiful and awful anatomic accommodation was redesigned by Ştefan Lazăr, a Romanian autogenous artist and absolute acreage specialist. The attic is amid in Timisoara, Romania and was allegedly a ancestors allowance for his son.

Although it ability not attending like it, the absolute accommodation was busy on a baby budget. Most of the absorbing altar displayed actuality were allegedly 'on sale'. Some of the items, such as the kitchen and active appliance pieces were additionally custom made. Awful functional, the decorating items accept able-bodied auth

Luxury Kitchen Products by Morph

Luxury Kitchen Products by Morph

London designers Morph accept advised three new articles for British kitchen accessories manufacturers Joseph Joseph, including a polypropylene bloom basin and servers (above).

The lid of their architecture for a accumulator jar can be acclimated to admeasurement out the capacity it contains, while the alluring barometer spoons accommodate arrangement for half-spoons.

The argument beneath is from Morph:

Salad Basin & Servers

This ample bloom basin and server set is absolute for ancestors dinners and alfresco use. It’s additionally abundant for pasta or bake-apple salad, and makes the ideal bake-apple bowl. The characteristic anatomy of both the basin and servers accomplish this artefact the absolute centre allotment for all dining occasions. Made from durable, accessible to apple-pie polypropylene.

True Amazing Spiral Staircase Designs cool

Spiral stairs are a affair of beauty; not alone is it visually appealing, it is additionally a abundant another to approved stairs which booty up a lot of room. They additionally advice accommodate admission to high levels, roofs and lofts in areas area amplitude is limited. Below are a few admirable circling access designs called by DigsDigs that we're abiding will affect you to analyze new means to stylize your own home:True Amazing Spiral Staircase Designs cool photos

True Amazing Spiral Staircase Designs cool

UPAEP - Vargas Tejeda Arquitectos

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Silver Drop + Ring Hanger Honey Chair + Sooyon Park

Honey Chair _ Stool

Honey Chair is a one of the stool from the ‘Honey Collection’. Legs are fabricated of stainless animate which is accessible to about-face with added appearance of legs in ‘Honey Collection’.

The legs accept a bendable appearance such as a bead of honey, but additionally it has a cord activity because of the material. Lathes adapted blocks of stainless animate into adjustable forms.This Chair is apparent in BMH Gallery in Seoul on March of 2010.

+ Dimensions ( L x W x H ) 350 x 400 x 520 (mm)

at Coruña Modular Show House from A-cero

A-cero has presented this additional modular appearance abode afterwards the aboriginal acknowledged modular abode which was presented aftermost February in Madrid. Indeed, nowadays ten modular houses are actuality congenital (for clandestine costumers) and several promotions will be congenital the abutting September. Almost 2.000 budgets accept been able up to the date too.

The new modular appearance abode takes abode in Ferrol (La Coruña) and it is accessible for visits. In this break A-cero has called a altered façade from the Madrid appearance house´s. In that way bodies can see altered options that A-cero offers with these modular houses.

Coruña Modular Show House from A-cero

Coruña Modular Show House from A-cero

Coruña Modular Show House from A-cero

Amazing Elevated Pool Home With Original

A pond basin can accept a above access on how a home looks and feels. In this accurate case, it seems that the basin is not an accessory, but the focal point of the absolute residence. This amazing home is alleged Casa Devoto and was created by a architectonics aggregation from Andrés RemyArchitects. The abode looks actually amazing and has a avant-garde architecture. Large accessible spaces actualize a affiliation to the exoteric and accord a activity of freedom. The autogenous architectonics is diverse, yet every allowance is beautiful and advised with an astute faculty for aesthetics. An absorbing actuality is that the aboriginal animated basin can be apparent from assorted angles, from inside, as able-bodied as from the autogenous yard. This is not necessarily acceptable in agreement of aloofness but you accept to acknowledge its uniqueness.

Unique Fab Lab House Generates Three Times More Energy

Sustainability and blooming technologies accept taken over the apple of architecture afresh as added and added projects advance with these new concepts in mind. The Fab Lab Abode comes from Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and is a abundant archetype of eco-living. This Madrid-based activity generates three times the activity it consumes and additionally houses an orchard in adjustment to aftermath food. The appearance of this abode was dictated by its purpose: a sustainable, arrogant architecture whose “form follows energy”. All the characteristics of its ambiance were anxiously advised and taken advantage of, such as the wind or the solar rays. This abode is currently accessible for sale, with prices starting from 45.000 € for the aboriginal model.

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House Design

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arquitectura Cerveira House

Architects: dEMM arquitectura, Emanuel Silva

Location: Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal

Collaborators: Manuel Pais Vieira

Structural Engineering: Gepec

Contractor: J. Camilo

Constructed Area: 600 sqm

Photographs: Pedro Lobo

NH Architects Hire Intern Architect

Bonin Architects recently added another Intern Architect to our team!

Jamie Gillon received both his Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Masters of Architecture from Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. Prior to joining BA&A, Jamie has over seven years’ experience in high end residential, restaurant, and financial institution design while working with prestigious New England architectural firms. Jamie will be involved in all aspects of the design process, working directly with clients, builders, and engineers.

Outside of work, Jamie has utilized his architectural skills with Habitat for Humanity, and also was a finalist in the AIA’s 2009 Young Architect’s Forum competition.

Jamie is also an Eagle Scout. In his spare time, he is a high school wrestling official and is a member of the NH Wrestling Officials Association.

About Bonin Architects & Associates, PLLC:

Bonin Architects & Associates creates innovative, energy efficient home designs, specializing in green, efficient homes incorporating recycled and energy efficient building materials and sustainable (green) energy practices. Project Management services include working with clients to determine budget requirements, material choices and product specifications for quotes, providing an apples-to-apples manufacturer bid comparison to clearly explain material and cost differences, and working with the contractor throughout the construction process.

Costly Exterior Design Pictures

costly exterior design pictures

costly exterior design pictures

Events: Things To Do

Don't miss the 3rd Annual Lakeside Living Expo this weekend at the Gunstock Mountain Resort in Gilford, New Hampshire.  Gilford is located on beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee, less than 90 minutes away from Boston and the seacoast!

This is the largest Lifestyle Show in New England with over 250 exhibitors in lodges and tents!  Bonin Architects will be exhibiting in Booth #75 in the Lake Winnipesaukee Tent.  Be sure to stop by to say hello! 

Lakeside Living Expo

Gunstock Mountain Resort, Gilford, NH

July 16-18, 2010

Friday 11-7; Saturday 10-6; Sunday 10-4

Seminars: 1:00 PM each day

While you're there, be sure to sit in on a Seminar on Green Home Design Considerations by NH Architect Jeremy Bonin.  Seminars will be presented all three days at 1:00 PM in the Seminar Room.

The Lakeside Living Expo celebrates lake homes, adirondack furniture & decor, boats and outdoor water sports adventure.  There is something for everyone at this show!

If you are planning to build a new lakefront home or cottage, remodel your existing home on the lake, or add living space with a home addition, one of your first stops should be Bonin Architects' booth!  Kimberly and Jeremy Bonin will answer your questions regarding the Comprehensive Shoreland Protection Act, building costs, renewable energy (solar and geothermal), and more!

See you there!