City Cabins on Queen Anne

City Cabins in Green Home Tour

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:18:31 +0000

City Cabins on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill is the latest hi-performance, hi-tech homes built by award winning Green Builder Martha Rose, designed by CB Anderson Architects of Seattle The multi-certified City Cabins concept were completed in April 2012.

You can visit the Martha Rose during the Tour at Greenhome Solutions to find out about the green features of City Cabins, her upcoming projects and learn about her green building approach, style, and commitment. April 21 & 22, 2012 from 10am-4pm.

2 pending sales

admin — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:47:01 +0000

MARKET UPDATE: March 12, 2012, two hi-performance homes built by Martha Rose Construction in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood are both under contract. For more information please contact Adrian Willanger Adrian@AdrianWillanger.com.

East Queen Anne home prices showing signs of moving upward

admin — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:26:36 +0000

Price and inventory levels for West Queen Anne Zip Code 98109

The popular Queen Anne communities (zip codes 98109 East Queen Anne, 98119 West Queen Anne) are starting to see home prices on the East Side rise in March, following two weeks of prices treading water in late February. This is a welcome relief, after prices on the East Side of Queen Anne were steadily trending the downward starting in late August of 2011. West Queen Anne has seen inventory levels start to rise over the last three week and prices are still trending downward.

The median selling price for East Queen Anne has fallen from the years high $850k in August 2011 to just under $687k from $705k on 1/19/2012. West Queen Anne reached its high water mark of $710K in October of 2011 and has since seen prices trend downward to $648K down from $665k (read February 6, 2011 article).

Queen Anne housing inventory

An inventory level in both East and West Queen Anne has started to increase beginning in late February and is starting to show signs of increased seller confidence levels. This good is a good indication buyers are starting to come back into the housing market.

The Queen Anne Hill location is located close to several major employment centers, South Lake Union, Downtown Seattle and just a short commute to the University of Washington. The neighborhood is rich with restaurants, boutiques, specialty shops, bakeries & markets, and professional services.

Many of the homes on Queen Anne Hill were built in the early 1900s with much hand crafted detailing to go along with some of the city’s best views.

This Seattle real estate market update is courtesy of Adrian Willanger at Coldwell Banker Danforth & Associates 206 909-7536 helping people buy and sale homes in the Greater Seattle area.

Homes Available For Sale on Queen Anne Hill

New Green Built Homes on Queen Anne Hill

A lighting assemblage in a new hi-performance Seattle home

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:02:07 +0000

The benefits of natural daylighting in a home or office can’t be over expressed. Aside from the obvious energy-savings daylighting can offer a bit of drama, energy and add to ones cheerful disposition. The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) has documented increased worker productivity and a reduction in employee absenteeism in it’s LEED Certified buildings that has enhanced daylighting features.

Seattle home builder Martha Rose takes daylighting and interior lighting to a whole new level in her latest new homes in Seattle, City Cabins. Maximizing daylighting with strategic placement of windows to allow the natural light to filter into the living spaces, one of the key elements are the 9’ tall ceilings which allow the windows to be placed six inches higher allowing greater depth of natural light into the living areas.

When the sun goes down the homes come alive with well thought-out ambient, task, way-finding and accent lighting. The open stairways are well lite, using George Kovas’ wall sconces that direct light upward illuminating the tall ceilings as well as casting a soft light downward defining the wood slab steps. The kitchen features 3 Hudson Bay pendant lights that offer the rare trifecta of lighting ambient, task and accent lighting perfect for a kitchen that looks more like a living area than a food prep area.

The advance lighting package allows the homeowners to easily transition from dinner to after dinner by way of ambient style lighting with undercounter LED lighting and a custom designed dining room fixture that is also a great transitional piece. The custom fixture is made from a 4’ piece of apple wood (same as the kitchen cabinets) shaped into an artist palette. Suspended from the ceiling wrapped in stainless steel, the palette shaped fixture takes on a bit of a commercial look while helping to define the dining space from the living room and kitchen areas. The fixture has a solar tube coming through it surrounded by 7 LED micro-spot lights which can be directed to showcase or to accent.

All of the lighting is eco-friendly energy saving CFL and LED bulbs which use less electricity, last longer than regular light bulbs and put out minimal heat.

The two homes are currently listed for sale, for more information contact Adrian Willanger, Coldwell Banker Danforth.

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INTERIOR: City Cabins

admin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:45:40 +0000

INTERIOR: City Cabins in Seattle Washington

Not your grandfather’s City Cabins

admin — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:38:10 +0000

Martha Rose’s newest hi-performance homes on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill have borrowed old school cabin design elements; building techniques, craftsmanship, attitudes that form follows function mixed with an abundance of natural materials. The energy-efficient homes are an inspiring look into the next-gen of homes, built with modern hi-tech construction techniques and hi-performance equipment and appliances.

Borrowing from the Arts and Crafts movement Rose has wisely integrating bits and pieces of the pre-industrial faction into City Cabins. Blending natural materials into finished products, recycled tongue and groove wood plank flooring becomes part of the structure; large Douglas Fir laminated beams create stability while adding interesting architectural elements to the interior.

Blacksmith-Artesian Silas Maddox, owner of Forge & Nail, has been contracted to add elements of beauty that also serve a function and create longer lasting value to the project. While walking around the homes you can’t help but notice the identifiable hand forged elements that are purposeful and add to the overall look and feel of City Cabins, these small details are often overlooked in spec home building, yet, really add to the authentic look and feel of the finished homes.

The artful blending of Arts and Crafts elements together with high-tech building science are an extremely rare combination in spec-building. Yet, Rose believes that to truly differentiate her homes from the competition she needs to keep part of her old school foundation forged with innovation, building science and Lean building principles to be profitable.

The City Cabins on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill have been well received with multiple-offers on one of the two homes. For information contact Adrian Willanger 206 909-7536, Coldwell Banker Danforth.

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Stainless in Seattle

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:06:06 +0000

The idea behind using a one piece kitchen counter, back-splash and sink made out of stainless steel was” an easy decision when taking into account all of the other finish elements that have gone into City Cabins,” mentions builder Martha Rose.

The stainless steel counters and sink turns out to be the perfect integral accent to the high end stainless appliances in the hybrid homes. Understated and seamless, they don’t immediately jump out at you, after looking and touching and perhaps asking what these are you are drawn –in.

Rose was targeting a pool of buyers looking for quality, durability and a sense of authenticity while she was choosing the finishes for City Cabins. The counters provide a unique transition from the apple wood cabinets, open beam-ceiling and the reclaimed plank flooring by offering a metal element to offset the mix of wood. Originally designed as homes to be functional, energy efficient and filled with character.

The “Cabins” on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill have been well received with multi-offer on one of the two homes and lots interest on the remaining one. For more information contactAdrian Willanger 206 909-7536, Coldwell Banker Danforth.

The Great Wall of Queen Anne

admin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:19:55 +0000

Actually the phrase is the “great green wall” of Queen Anne. The green wall is the creation of award winning Seattle Green Builder Martha Rose. “The great green wall” is actually the wall system designed for her latest hi-performance homes City Cabins on Queen Anne Hill.

The overall goal of the homes was to get to or near net-zero as possible without adding active solar equipment. The active solar equipment would help off-set the paid-for electricity needed for its occupants.

A major part of using less electricity is in the design and building of the homes. A tight building envelope includes walls systems, windows, doors, and advance sealing and insulation techniques. The exterior walls of the City Cabins are an advanced framing double wall system with 1” of blue foam board, ½” inch of CDX plywood with an outer layer of Hardi-plank siding. The cavities of the wall are filled with no VOC blown-in-fiberglass batts.

City Cabins at framing stage

The 9 ½” thick walls have an R-31 rating, normal code build homes would typically have wall systems rated between R-19 and R-21. The multi-solution wall system helps keep out moisture and wind, greatly reduces the need for large heating and cooling components, increases indoor thermal comfort by eliminating drafts and will aid in reducing the homeowners overall utility costs.

The multi-certified hi-performance hi-tech City Cabins are now available for sale, for more information contact Adrian Willanger 206 909-7536.

New homes on Queen Anne Hill offer solar upgrades as standard features

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:32:42 +0000

New homes on Queen Anne Hill offer solar upgrades as standard features

Martha Rose’s latest hi-performance homes, City Cabins, on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill are designed and built utilizing a whole house “system” approach, one of the many hidden benefits of the hi-tech City Cabins are the energy-efficient upgrades added as standard equipment……….More Information

Benefits of solar equipment

Seattle Builder Martha Rose has wired the garages of the two new hi-performance homes one Queen Anne for electric car power charging stations as well as installing a 1.9 kilowatt (KW) solar-panel system on one of the two City Cabin homes, the other is pre-wired and can accommodate up to a 5KW solar system. The 1.9 system should produce 2000KW hours of electricity annual, enough, according to Tacoma Power and Light, to power an electric car 7000-10,000 miles (depending on the make and model). If an electric car isn’t an option the electrical power produced from the 1.9KW system should offset the home owner’s electricity cost by 20-25% depending on the home owner’s energy use behaviors. In addition to the monthly savings there are also is a 3o% tax credit from the Federal Government good through 2014 in addition to the net-metering production incentives through Seattle City Light.

East and West Queen Anne home inventory levels continue to deplete going into 2012

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:06:44 +0000

East Queen Anne Hill (Zip Code 98109)

West Queen Anne Hill (Zip Code 98119)

East and West Queen Anne home inventory levels continue to deplete going into 2012

The popular Queen Anne community (zip codes 98109 East Queen Anne, 98119 West Queen Anne) has seen home prices to continue the downward trend since the last update 3 weeks ago. The downward trend began in August of 2011 for the East Queen Anne neighborhood and mid-October for west Queen Anne.

Inventory levels in both Queen Anne zip codes continues trending downward, Queen Anne’s available homes for sale levels are down over 50% from the beginning of 2011. East Queen Anne showed a brief sign of inventory levels leveling off going into the end of January but then started to trick downward again.

This brief pause might be a good sign that buyers are starting to come back into the market and home sellers are watching for these signs of market improvement prior to listing their homes for sale.

Many of the homes on Queen Anne Hill were built in the early 1900s with much hand crafted detailing to go along with some of the city’s best views.

This Seattle real estate market update is courtesy of Adrian Willanger at Coldwell Banker Danforth& Associates 206 909-7536 helping people buy and sale homes in the Greater Seattle area.

Homes Available For Sale on Queen Anne Hill

New Green Built Homes on Queen Anne Hill