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Humphrey House - Green Remodelling of an Arts & Crafts Bungalow
http://www.humphrey-house.com
Jennifer and Jason LaFleur's journey of rehabbing a 90-year-old arts and crafts bungalow in Oak Park, IL. As we enter our third year, we've expanded our focus to include more energy efficient and green building techniques, leaving us with another shoestring for our budget.
- Added on: Dec 9th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jason La Fleur, LEED AP
- Listed in: Green Home and Garden
- Tags: green building sustainable arts and crafts Craftsman bungalow oak park
Recent Posts
Farewell 2009 and Happy New Year
We setup a small tree this year for the holidays in our family room, and it turned out to be a cheerful addition for the holidays. Those with astute eyes may recognize the "major award" in the box under the tree. :-)Here's to a wonderful and sustaina...
Winter Wonderland Part One
Placing Pavers
Well it took a bit of time to install (and even more time to post), but we got our bluestone pavers all in place. It wasn't easy as the shapes were mostly rectilinear, so we had to conjure up some old Tetris skills (see Dad, I told you Nintendo was ...
Happy Halloween From Humphrey House
It has been such a lovely warm autumn, and the leaves falling from our maple tree have done a great job adding color to our little spookhouse. Due to digging out the back yard for a patio, we've got quite the graveyard out front. And the pirate flag ...
Finding Place for Extra Dirt
Humphrey-house has been a bit of a mud pit for the last... oh five weeks or so, as we tore out the old concrete in the backyard and are putting in reclaimed bluestone pavers. It seems like years already. There has been a lot of digging, excavating, ...
Digging Trenches
This summer we had some drainage problems with the old concrete slab we had that was pitched towards the house. Large rainfall = water cascading down the basement walk-out stairs and seeping into the house.We knew it had to be fixed, and preferably b...
