Natural materials abound in this home’s wide open interiors, from 120-year- old barnboards on the floor, to reclaimed wood countertops.
To maximize window space without sacrificing energy performance, the team combined glazings from one company with frames from another, and assembled windows on site.
Exposed rafters and fir sheathing conceal a super-efficient roof system that combines rigid foam with blown-in Johns Manville fiberglass.
“Our tolerance on those large window walls was less than 1/8” in 25 feet. We used glazings put together by Serious Materials. Then Roeder (a German firm) provided the FSC frames. They have a lot of unique hardware that worked for us.”
No Compromises
“The idea with this home was also to think about health of the residents.” Martuscello continues. “That meant looking at everything. For example, we went as far as asking the various plywood manufacturers what kind of resins they use in their products, and often we really couldn’t get the answers we wanted.” That lack of full disclosure, he says, led him to a radiant floor system that contains no plywood at all, a combination of concrete and douglas fir. For wood floor surfaces, he put down 120-year-old refinished barn boards.
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