My family just spent two weeks of Christmas vacation in the 1850 SF farmhouse we renovated last year. You can learn more about the renovation on that blog. Here is how it performed with a family of 5 plus a couple of extras beds filled from time to time: Heating: We heated exclusively with […]
Remodeling and Additions
Report from our Maine Deep Energy Retrofit
Deep Energy Retrofit of a 19th Century Maine House
This project is personal: the renovation of our family’s house in Maine. It is a work in progress. The goal has been to take care of a century of deferred maintenance and to make the house as energy-efficient as possible for year-round living. The great challenge has been to make all this work invisible, so […]
Work underway on Landmark DC Carriage House Deep Energy Retrofit
Construction is underway on our first deep energy retrofit of a historic structure. The Spencer Carriage House, listed as a DC Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1905 to serve one of the large mansions in the Dupont Circle area. It is one of the last of these carriage […]