The Commons is designed to reach beyond today's highest green building standards and become the first U.S. home to meet the Living Building Challenge.
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In an effort to reduce energy consumption and get more info about our home and its inhabitants, we’ve been working on building a monitoring and automation system. Part of that system (much of the hardware) was completed by students at Portland State University who were working on thei...
We’ve finally finished a little side project we’ve been working on – a bit of furniture. It’s a built in bed and two side tables with drawers. Both the bed and the drawers hang off of a sheet of steel that is attached to the studs behind the wall. This allows them to cantilever off th...
We’ve been working on building our interior doors lately. We had two big goals we wanted to achieve with them: sound isolation and light transmission. We’ve tried to accomplish the former by wrapping the edges of the door with a little rubber gasket that should seal around all edges w...
We’ve been a bit quite lately and that’s partially because there’s been a changing of the guard. Dustin has headed off to school to get an Architecture degree and is supporting the project from afar. I (Garrett) have been attempting to take over his duties with the help of my Dad. Ove...
