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Highlights from four of the Salt Lake homes:
Walking up to the Plachta-Carlson-Gotts' home, which is now four years old, you noticed the xeriscaping. The buffalo grass had faded in the summer sun but seemed thick and healthy. Inside, architect Angela Dean gave tours, talking about passive-solar design and radiant-floor heating. The home, which is in the Millcreek area, uses a ground-source heat pump. (Water is pumped through several hundred feet of buried pipes to pick up heat in the winter. In the summer months the pipes are relatively cool, thus cooling the water that flows through them.) The owners spent $650 to heat their 3,400-square-foot home last year and $40 to cool it.
The Lloyd home in the Harvard-Yale neighborhood was remodeled while keeping to a $75 per square foot budget, which forced owner/architect Warren Lloyd to "reduce, reuse and recycle material." Inside, you saw trim made from joists salvaged during the demolition of an old building on Pierpoint Avenue. In the kitchen, you were drawn to the mosaic tile made by Oceanside from recycled glass. In the bathrooms, you were unable to guess that the countertops are made of densely pressed paper. You noted the use of Japanese-style shoji shades on the north windows. They hide the neighbor's home while still letting in lots of light. The kitchen cabinets were made by Ervin Raber (13238 TR 473, Lakeville, Ohio). Raber is Amish, so no power tools and thus no electricity were used in their construction.
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Volunteers Jesse Beacom, left, John Jensen, Brett Muir and Edward Whitney prepare and mix earthen plaster to apply to the outside of the straw-bale home of the Kunga family that was built by University of Utah architecture students and volunteers in Salt Lake City in 2002. The project was the culmination of a design-and-build course. Straw bales are a popular choice for environmentally wise construction. The home was featured on this year's Green Home Tour.
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