Building a Net Zero Smart Home
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Lindal homeowner Laurie Pitman describes how to add environmentally friendly features and automated devices into your Lindal home design. In an informative and engaging presentation, she covers the key features of a net zero home, describes the planning process, aesthetics, exterior and interior design considerations, as well as the various systems that work together to create a beautiful, functional, and energy-efficient home.
Laurie is a polymath with many interests and multiple careers. Originally trained as a classical pianist, she worked as a professional pilot in the 1980s, then earned a master’s in library science while studying for a PhD in Ottoman literature. In the 1990s she cofounded a highly successful software company in San Francisco, CA, that was sold to Oracle in 2008. Currently, Laurie lives on 20 acres in the Pacific Northwest with her border collie, Emma, a flock of chickens, and a rotating menagerie of local wildlife visitors.
Thank you for sharing such a thorough and informative video on your Net Zero home. I love everything about your home. We've used many of these principles in our home in NY and will be building a new home in the south. I learned some new things, and particularly appreciate the advice on making sure you're selecting technology that isn't too new and by large, established companies. Thank you for that tip! Could you share the manufacturer and and the integrated color you used in your concrete? Your home is a work of art.
This was very informative. May I ask that we have an uploaded webinar of Frank Lloyd Wright series. There are those of us whom are young and high income earners. However, we just are not into sitting in these webinars. We rather see recorded videos at our own convenience. Just a thought.
You can watch a recording of it here: www.gotostage.com/channel/lindal-cedar-homes
Very thoughtful design. The only element that is odd to me is locating all of the networking equipment in the entryway closet. Seems like a poor use of space - as networking equipment is not something you need to interact with as you come and go from the house. All networking equipment can simply be installed on a wall in the garage, freeing up the entryway closet for more gloves, hats, boots etc..
Ms. Laurie Pitman, very impressed by your knowledge and wealth, you do have a beautiful house, but don't you think this is sort of discriminatory against those people who were not as lucky as you, having all those resources? How much was the final cost for you to have such a "high-end" house? How much leeway is there to have a livable and beautiful "Net Zero smart" Lindal home without all those "luxuries" and still be affordable for people in your age group?
I know that I am also not in a position to do everything mentioned in this video. However, I was able to take away many good ideas. I think this encourages thoughtful design -- small footprint, efficient use of glazing and orientation for passive solar gain, aging in place considerations, LED, planning the location of utilities, the most efficient appliances, concrete floors (despite the carbon). While I may not be able to incorporate all of these features, I appreciated learning about them so I might make the best decisions that are within my price point.(I am in no way connected to Lindal or this home owner. I am just a home owner interested in building the best house within my budget.)
"Lucky"? Is working hard and saving your money considered "lucky" nowadays? Discriminatory for being successful? Where did such nonsense originate?
@@anthonyparkinson5820 Housing has been going up faster than inflation for over 40 years and wages have stagnated since the 70s and not kept pace. Housing affordability for most people has gone backwards despite the supposed health of the modern economy. Working a middle-class job for years no longer nets enough to come close to affording a home like this anywhere, let alone in the very expensive Seattle area. And that's without even considering starting a family. The American Dream is well and truly dead for most people. As an engineer in the construction industry I would love to apply many of these concepts to a home of my own, but even in lower-cost eastern Washington, it's just no longer possible without a very high income, or multiple high incomes, or equity gains from working in previous decades when the dream was still possible.