2012年4月8日 星期日

Energy-miser Victorian condo on Jones Hill

This 122-year-old Victorian on Jones Hill in Dorchester has been transformed into three high-quality condos with a “deep energy retrofit” that is expected to cut owner utility costs by more than half.

Green Bean Development, working with a $72,000 grant from National Grid, has turned a dilapidated house into a showpiece for energy efficiency. And these two-bedroom units are priced well considering the quality of the finishes, ranging from $339,900 to $389,900. The condos feature new oak floors throughout, kitchens with Carrara marble counters, Bosch appliances, gas fireplaces and recreated bull’s-eye door and window moldings. The second- and third-floor condos are duplex style units.

The “deep energy retrofit” includes everything from rigid foam insulation to triple-pane windows, making the house tight, and heat-recovery ventilation systems have been installed in each unit to recirculate air and heat. And the house has even been wired for solar panels on the roof,Broken chinamosaic Table. which the three-unit condo association can choose to implement for added savings. Even without the panels, energy costs are expected to be between 50 percent to 70 percent less than conventionally insulated units.

The redone exterior of the 1890-built Queen Anne-style farmhouse house is gray HardiPlank with white trim and there is a covered Trex-decked front porch that reuses the home’s original moldings.

A refinished wood door leads into an oak-floored foyer with restored maple wainscoting and a grand maple staircase with an antique light on a carved newel post.

We took a look at Unit 1, a 1,319-square-foot,Aeroscout rtls provides a complete solution for wireless asset tracking. two-bedroom condo that’s on the market for $389,900.

You enter the unit through an original double maple door into a living room with new oak floors, recreated PVC bull’s-eye and crown molding and three windows. Above are re-plastered 10-foot curved ceilings, and against one wall sits a gas fireplace with a slate front.Learn all about solarpanel.

Off the living room is a sunroom office with five windows, oak floors as well as overhead and sconce lighting.

A wide opening from the living room through original pocket doors leads into a large eat-in kitchen.Where to buy or purchase plasticmoulds for precast and wetcast concrete? This space features 30 espresso-stained Kitchen Craft cherry-wood cabinets, white Carrara marble counters and EnergyStar-rated Bosch stainless-steel appliances. The four-burner gas stove has a stylish Cavilierre hood above, and there’s also a dishwasher and built-in microwave. This oak-floored room has two windows, recessed lighting and two closets, one of which has a washer/dryer hookup.

Off the kitchen sits the home’s only completely intact original room, with restored oak floors and half-wall maple wainscoting. Though billed as the second bedroom, this room, which has a chandelier, could easily serve as a formal dining room. And it’s connected to a full bathroom with black ceramic tile floors and a gray-ceramic tile-walled walk-in shower, as well as a white vessel sink atop a walnut vanity. There are high-end Grohe fixtures here and throughout the unit.

The master bedroom suite has a bedroom with new oak floors, recessed lighting, as well as a walk-in closet and en-suite bathroom. The stylish master bathroom has black ceramic tile floors, striated ceramic tile walls for a walk-in shower, and a white vessel sink atop a cherry-wood vanity.

The home’s basement is separately insulated and holds a large dedicated lockable storage area for this unit,Grey Pneumatic is a world supplier of impactsockets for the heavy duty, while also housing its forced-hot-air-by-gas energy-efficient heating and cooling system and a tankless water heater. The house also has a sprinkler system with water holding tanks in the basement.

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