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Exquisite Oakland Green Home

Full Description: Ingeniously utilizing the latest innovations in design and materials to bring you aesthetic excitement, lasting comfort, and green efficiency far into the future. Along with carrying the distinction of being the very first GreenPoint Rated single family residence in Oakland, California, you will find the extremely thoughtful design and architecture a delight for both the senses and the intellect.

Spectacular Solar Property

Full Description: Owners created a haven for pleasure, healthy living, great design. They chose a neighborhood that is known for great family life and activities, excellent Leander schools and convenience to both Lake Austin and Lake Travis. They customized the home to meet standards for efficiency and healthy living. The result is a resort style pool area, with wonderful negative edge, saline pool, firepit, summer kitchen and stunning hill country and Lake Austin views. The interior is gracious, open and beautiful. There or 5 or 6 bedrooms, depending if you would want one to be an office. The hardware and fixtures are top of the line, contemporary. Kitchen and bathrooms have glass tiles. The staircase has a good looking custom iron balistraude, floors are Hickory downstairs and cork upstairs. House is located across from permanent green belt and just steps away from the trail head to a wonderful hiking trail that leads to to Lake Austin, a source of Austin pride. Makes for a great place to hang your hat!

Contemporary Arizona Green Home

Full Description: A masterpiece of vision and practicality, this beautiful Southwestern contemporary home has been thoughtfully designed and constructed using green building technologies and sustainable resources without compromising quality, luxury, or value! Perched high on a 1.41 acre lot in upscale North Scottsdale, and featuring 4699sf feet of eco friendly luxury, this stunning new build flaunts an umbrella of striking angles and shapes mimicking the desert topography, while creating a Zen like energy between dramatic architectural design and High Sonoran Desert Terrain. Earth toned impregnated stucco exterior walls will never need repainting. Extensive western red cedar roof overhangs protect against the scorching desert sun, and walls of low-E glass windows fitted with custom automatic sunshades, extend interior living spaces outdoors to enjoy breathtaking mountain and city light views. Interior spaces are equally impressive, featuring warm acid stained matte finish concrete flooring accented by chiseled natural stone pillars and accent walls uniting with warm Western red cedar barrel ceilings. The epicurean kitchen flaunts rich cohiba satin granite atop custom bamboo cabinetry, a sophisticated designer glass tile backsplash, top of the line energy efficient Miele stainless steel appliances, over/under cabinet lighting, and a coffee/espresso center for latte lovers.

Rustic North Carolina Eco Property

Full Description: Luxurious country living only 20 minutes to restaurants, arts and culture in thriving Asheville, NC. Home is situated on a quiet private hillside at the end of a gentle paved drive. This home has an open flowing floor plan with two large upstairs rooms and open loft area giving a very spacious interior. Patio and pool are steps from the dining and living area. The private master bedroom suite has an adjoining office space. Sliding glass doors lead directly from the bedroom out to the deck and hot tub. The remaining two bedrooms and bath are at the other end of the house with a large family room above. Great for kids or guests. Additional unattached 1200 sq. ft. heated studio & workshop. Currently it is divided into two separate workspaces, one a woodshop and the other a quilt studio. It also has an adjoining garage for storage and direct access to both workspaces. The property is partially wooded with plenty of open land for garden and/or pasture. Neighboring land is pastoral and possibly available for lease.

Massachusetts Eco Gem

Full Description: The primary criteria in designing and creating the house and land have been environmental sustainability and green, non-toxic, healthy construction. Guided by the principles in Paula Baker-Laporte's Prescriptions for a Healthy House and Dan Chiras's The Natural House, every care has been taken to ensure that the systems, materials, and ongoing life of the home are all consistent with these values. Heat provided by soapstone Tulikivi masonry heater. Two burns per day keep the house toasty. Wood use: approximately three cords per year. All wood for heating can be harvested on the property or purchased from area vendors. Carefully designed, functional wood storage areas for maximal drying and accessibility. Passive solar design supplements wood heat. Southern-facing glass. Thermal mass, provided by stone flooring with deep concrete slab in dining area, reclaimed black granite counters, and Tulikivi, absorbs heat and slowly raises the temperature in the house on winter afternoons by several degrees. Carefully architected window overhangs admit sun during cold months, when the sun is low in the sky, and provide shade during the summer when the sun is high.

New Mexico Earthship Home

Full Description: The home is totally off-grid. PV solar panels, passave solar, and the thermomass construction heat and cool the environment with amazing year-round stability. The carbon footprint is virtually non-existent. You shall be given a high level of assistance to increase your knowledge, insight, appreciation, and how to live efficiently in this home. Further, you shall obtain information about all aspects of Taos from a resident of 25 years The home is healthy mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. You may produce and harvest - by virtue of the grey water system - your own food year-round in the home. Outside the home you may of course produce additional crop during the normal growing season. Two large cistern overflow catchments provide additional water.

Bali's most avant-garde Villa Estate

Full Description: delMango Seminyak Gardens - Bali's most avant-garde villa estate located in cosmopolitan Seminyak. Opulent and sophisticated tropical living, shaded under century old mango trees, capturing the very essence of the Balinese lifestyle. Taking the concept of mixed-use resorts to the next level, delMango Villa Estate, is a combination of luxury residential ownership, mixed with a range of lifestyle amenities. Designed for the discerning few who are in the pursuit of the best of both world - comfortable and secure tropical living with all the services of a five star villa estate. On offer, a total of eight well appointed private villas, conceived by internationally acclaimed Bali architect Yoko Sara, with interior/exterior design by celebrated Japanese designer, Nobuyuki Narabayashi, the former lead designer of famous 'Superpotato'. The development is set on approximately half a hectare of land in the very heart of Seminyak. Cornered on one side by Jalan Legion and Jalan Nakula on the other, the location is only a short stroll to the beach or the convenience of Sunset Road. Set within an established landscape featuring century old mango trees, each villa is hidden away in its own private gardens. Step into your villa and you enter a private oasis that encompasses the traditional Balinese style for year round outdoor living, relaxation and entertainment. Experience year round sun spent by your private pool ,lazing on Seminyak's famous beaches or playing a round on the near by golf course. For a classic contrast combine this with visits to traditional cities of Bali such as Ubud and Tabanan. Enjoy tropical cocktails and some of the most beautiful sunsets in the world, right on your doorstep. Evenings are made for people watching on Jalan Raya, exquisite dining and nights on the town in chic clubs and bars of Oberoi, Legion and Kuta. Fully furnished and managed by an experienced, international hotelier, your investment will generate an attractive rental return, year after year. For so many people, it's just a dream, a dream of luxury, exclusivity, comfort, discrete privacy and uncompromising standards of service. Its the dream of your own private residence in the lush tropical gardens of a five-star development. A dream that now becomes reality in one of Bali's most desirable locations - Seminyak Gardens. Now on sale!