Earning LEED Platinum certification for a renovation of an almost 100-year-old home is a rare achievement. Trillium Architects answered the client’s request for an open, spacious, and family-friendly design for their home, while maintaining a compact footprint and fitting sensitively into the colonial context of its neighborhood. The homeowners also desired a low-impact, environmentally-friendly home that used a cradle-to-cradle approach to materials use. Though the home underwent a gut renovation which doubled its size, the owner’s energy bills were cut in half.

LEED Platinum-certified

HERS rating of 37 / 100

Winner of the CT Green Building Council Residential Merit Award, 2012

Zero-VOC materials used throughout entire construction

Demolished portions of house were 98% reused or recycled

Full water collection and re-use

Extremely low-flow water fixtures

Recycled denim insulation

Rain-screen (vented) siding adds 10-20 years to life of exterior paint

Trim work milled from 100-foot spruce tree cut from property

Size of project: Original 1476 sf. house increased to 2858 sf.

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