100 Year

The 100 Year House

This house lift and remodel of a 100-year-old home is on track to receive a 5-Star Built Green Certification.

The 100-Year House was, by most accounts, a tear-down. Many years of deferred maintenance led to an old arts and crafts house that was listing down the hill with a rotting kitchen addition at the back, and when it rained outside, it rained inside, right onto the dining table! Our goal was to first breath another 100 years of life into the structure, making it a healthy, low-maintenance home for a family to stay in for a generation or more. In that process, we made a very quiet, peaceful home, with rich finishes… and the home uses just a trickle of energy!

Features include:

• Local forest-reclaimed Doug fir rainscreen siding

• Reclaimed madrone cabinets by B+L

• Reclaimed water-tank clear all-heart redwood cabinets by B+L

• Salvaging as much of the existing structure as possible

• Building materials deconstructed and hand-separated for re-use in the community

• Interior doors refinished and re-used on site

• Inlaid floor deconstructed and re-constructed on site

• Salvaged lab sink as bathtub

• Damaged trees chipped on site for soil amendment

• Rainwater catchment system for use in toilets and laundry

• Structured rain planters to manage storm water on site

• Full-height ICF (Insulated Concrete Form) basement walls

• Minimal thermal bridging

• High-fly-ash concrete

• Advanced framing & super-insulation

• High-performance insulation techniques, including continuous rigid sheathing

• Air tight retrofit techniques

• Right-sized low-temperature in-floor hydronic heating system

• FSC-certified framing lumber & sheathing

• Reclaimed garage sliding door as closet door

• Best-in-class US-made windows by Alpen Energy Group

• Free-draining, vertical living wall retaining system

• Metal roof with heat-reflective coating

• LED retrofit lighting throughout

• PV solar renewable system

• Piping for future solar water pre-heat

• Low-flow toilets and faucets

• Resin-paper countertops by local Richlite

• Low-toxic finishes throughout