Monday, June 21st, 2010
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Renovated 50s home takes low-tech green approach
by James Paul
This developer-built bungalow – an ersatz version of the classic West Coast post and beam style house – dates from 1958. Typically a house of this age and in this condition would be torn down for redevelopment. Instead, the house has been renovated and extended, and now acknowledges its true heritage while retaining economy of the developer’s original construction materials and methods..
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