Green Homes, Real Estate Listings, Architecture, & Design in Portland, OR
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For a list of certified green homes in the Portland metro area, please visit Portland Green Homes.
If you are interested in touring any of these great homes, please contact Amber Turner at (503) 804-1261, or amber@livingroomrealtors.com.
Posted July 19th, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Green Listings, Green Resources | Comments Off
It’s my belief that too many people pass up new construction for the “charm” of an older home. However, it’s also my hunch that 99% of those people have never given a new home WITH character a chance. This architect-designed custom home on full size lot (5,000 sf) is smack in the middle of old bungalow heaven, yet you get the benefit of energy efficiency only today’s standards can provide. Love the built-ins from older era homes? This one has floor-to-ceiling bookshelves right in the midst of a wonderfully open kitchen-to-dining room-to-living room floorplan. Master suite, 2nd floor laundry (nice feature!), exposed beams, set back from street for privacy, AND a detached garage. Fall in love with the ease and comfort of a lovely green infill project.
Energy Efficiency Features Include: 90% high efficiency furnace, 75% of home installed with energy efficient lighting, dual flush toilets and low flow faucets, low VOC paint, water heater 93% efficiency rating, and windows with 30U or better ratings.
Location: Located on a private dead end street one block from hip Division Street shopping, dining, and boutique neighborhood, Sunnyside School District, walk to popular Clinton and Hawthorne shopping, arts and dining neighborhood, access to several city parks including Laurelhurst and Mt. Tabor parks, convenient TriMet transportation access.
3572 SE Caruthers (Division/Clinton Neighborhood) | $499,000 | ML# 10086669
Interested in a look? Call Amber at 503-804-1261 for your private tour.
Posted November 11th, 2010 in Blog, Featured, Green Listings | Comments Off
Living in Oregon means valuing a home with year-round abundance of natural light. You’ll find it in this two-story corner Penthouse suite with floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall Smartglass, low-E windows on both levels.
The main level offers stunning dining, gas fireplace, full bathroom, and kitchen with a balcony large enough for a dinner party. The lower level is all master suite space with the same great views, including a bedroom, sitting room, office area, a second gas fireplace, and another full bathroom with stackable washer and dryer. The building has a cooling eco-roof, separate storage just for bicycles, central efficient hot water, and dual flush toilets. PLUS, unit has updated mini-split ductless AC units on both floors including 2 brand new heat pumps!
Come view this hot condo in person and you won’t believe the $269,900 pricetag. A great investment steps to PSU, Portland Art Museum, the street car, the Park Blocks, and Farmer’s Markets.
1410 SW 11th Ave. #806 | 894 sf | ML#10072916
Call Amber Turner for a special showing: 503-804-1261
Posted September 29th, 2010 in Blog, Featured, Green Listings | Comments Off
Love modern asymmetry and appreciate anything that can save you up to 90% on your heating and cooling costs? The Corehaus is the only home designed to the ultra efficient Passive House Standard that is currently for sale in Portland! This ultra cool home lets you live with a small footprint, plenty of light, and central to everything we love about the east side. Architect Robert Hawthorne and builder Bart Bergquist put hundreds of hours of perfectionist thought, study, and sweat into this one-of-a-kind home. To see footage of the blower door test they did to test the air tight envelope, check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1XEpXKbT5c
The Basics:
Passive House Features:
Other Sustainable Features:
(And just steps to my favorite cafe, Seven Virtues)
The members of GreenPDX were given a private tour of this house a few weeks ago to learn more about the Passive House standard requirements and what it took Rob and Bart to achieve the standard on the Corehaus. (See the full scoop and photos from the tour here.)
This home is For Sale for $330,000, so please call me for a showing today: Amber Turner 503-804-1261
Posted August 13th, 2010 in Blog, Featured, Green Listings | Comments Off
This one is a recipe for success – cute through and through, but with green tricks up its sleeve to boot. First, you have soothing plaster walls, a cleanly updated kitchen, a charming, covered wrap around porch overlooking garden beds, and then you couple it with lovely green features and you have yourself one a dandy gem. Radiant heat, new wood windows, reclaimed materials throughout, paperstone counters, marmoleum floors, and system upgrades. This 3 bedroom, 2 bath home is listed with Karim Alaeddine of ReMax.
Call me for a showing before this one is gone, baby, gone. Amber Turner 503-804-1261
832 N. Emerson Street | 2,068 sf | ML# 10063243
Posted August 5th, 2010 in Blog, Green Listings | Comments Off
If energy efficiency and healthy surfaces are important to you, consider this LEED Platinum home in the Collins View neighborhood – near Lewis and Clark College and Tryon Creek State Park. With radiant heat sourced from a geothermal heat pump, heat recovery ventilator, high efficiency appliances, sustainable materials, an unfinished ADU (accessory dwelling space), and access to great schools, this home is priced right. You’ll get 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, plus the option of additional living quarters, and yet you’ll save big time on energy bills.
541 SW Maplecrest Ct. | 2,592 sf | ML#10038782
Posted July 29th, 2010 in Blog, Green Listings | Comments Off
“LIVE SMALL AND SHARE” should be this year’s motto. Accessory dwelling units are all the rage and becoming more common in the homes I tour. They are a smart way to reduce our footprint on the earth, share resources with our friends and family, and help us reduce our costs as well.
This mysterious Concordia bungalow has a lot more going for it than even the quaint curb appeal could reveal. Behind the quintessential 1920’s craftsman home, you’ll find the most appealing reborn garage around – a sunny, south-facing ADU (accessory dwelling unit) complete with french doors that open to an amazing yard, a utilitarian kitchen, swanky bathroom, built in bookshelves, and a spiral staircase to a sleeping loft big enough for a queen sized bed, dresser, closet, and more.
The main home is homey only in all the good ways. I wanted to linger around there in the open living and formal dining area and large kitchen. Downstairs you’ll find ample bonus space for whatever craft or leisure activity you imagine. Listed with Ryann Blair of Prudential NW Properties, I’d love to walk through this one again with someone interested in an income property or sharing space with a friend or relative – so call me today for a showing. Amber 503-804-1261
More info:
Outdoor Shower
BBQ/Fire Pit
Raised Garden Beds
2bd/2bath
ML#10053048 | 1800+SF | $289,000
Posted June 29th, 2010 in Blog, Featured, Green Listings | Comments Off
Located right in the hub of Killingsworth, Alberta, and Concordia neighborhoods, these modern courtyard style condos showcase a unique stucco and cedar exterior and were built using Insulated Structural Panels (ISP). Units feature a deck and a patio, high efficiency heating and cooling, soaking tub, and eco roof. Listed with Eric Hagstette of Meadows Group.
Only three units left - call me for a private showing. Amber 503.804.1261
1,036-1,415 sf | $$279,900 – $339,900
Posted June 25th, 2010 in Blog, Green Listings | Comments Off
Coming Winter 2010!
Healthy, income qualified homes with tons of environmentally friendly features. There are eight units, with either 2 or 3 bedrooms, ranging from $120,000 – $155,000. They won’t last long so follow the link to learn more and find out if your family qualifies for these attractive homes.
http://www.proudground.org/homes/woolsey-corner/
Posted June 10th, 2010 in Blog, Green Listings | Comments Off
The current owners of this home added 21st century upgrades such as on demand hot water and in-floor radiant heat. I like this adorable Eastmoreland bunglow because it’s already an appropriate size for most singles, couples, or even small families, and it’s close enough to downtown and the Springwater Corridor to bike nearly anywhere in Portland. The yard and garden with native/edible plantings are a bonus, as are the updated non-toxic finishes. Green and Cute!
3704 SE Tenino | 1,552 sf | ML#10030587
Posted May 26th, 2010 in Blog, Green Listings | Comments Off
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