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About Lisa
- CONCORD GREEN www.KTharpDesign.com
- I'm an interior designer, raising awareness about healthy and sustainable design. We built THE CONCORD GREEN HEALTHY HOME to showcase these principles, while wrapping them in a beautiful, classic aesthetic. Want to make your home Healthier? Greener? More Comfortable and Inviting? Visit www.KTharpDesign.com, or email me at Lisa@KTharpDesign.com to learn about online and in-person interior design services.
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"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. To front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau
Design Excellence = Old + New
THE CONCORD GREEN HEALTHY HOME harnesses the best of old and new building principles. Like our ancestors, we respected the position of the warming sun, cooling breeze and shady trees. Better than the past, we super-insulated to retain comfortable indoor temps and minimize energy use. The home is rooted in classical architecture, but was panelized off-site to cut waste and protect materials from weather, thus reducing chance of rot and mold.
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Helpful Healthy + Green Build Links
- A Pattern Language
- Aedi Construction
- Building Green
- Connor Homes
- Debra's List - Home Safe Home
- EI Wellspring - Coping with Chemical and Electrical Hypersensitivities
- Energy Star
- Free Green
- g Green Design Center
- Green Building Advisor
- Green Home Guide
- Green Mountain Window and Door Co.
- Habitat for Humanity
- Healthy Child Healthy World
- Healthy House Institute
- Iron Horse Roofing
- Living Homes
- Long Leaf Lumber
- Materialicious
- MK Designs
- My House Is Killing Me
- Natural Remodeling for the Not So Green House
- Otterishly - MCS Safe Houses
- Passive House Institute US
- PassivHaus
- Push Design
- Solar Decathlon (DOE)
- Steve Rush at Green Home Guide
- Terrene Green Building Supply
- The Daily Green
- The Not So Big House
- U.S. Green Building Council
- Viking House - Active Solar House
- ZeroEnergy Design
Favorite Architects Links
- Andrew Skurman
- Arkin Tilt
- Connor Homes
- Dewing & Schmid
- Estes Twombly
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Hugh Newell Jacobsen
- Hutker Architects
- Ken Tate
- Marc Appleton
- McAlpine Tankersley
- Michelle Kaufmann
- Pugh + Scarpa
- Robert A.M. Stern
- Savin Couelle
- Shigeru Ban
- Shope Reno Wharton
- Werner Sobek - R128
- William McDonough
- ZeroEnergy Design
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
To Sam, my rock. Thank you for your love, your steadfast support, your ability to make me laugh no matter what, and your patience with my "canary" ways. Without you, none of this work would be possible.
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