One of the things that you will learn about at our upcoming Visible Green Home® Earth Day Celebration Tour of BURH BECC at BEACON SPRINGS on April 25th will be our use of TROMBE Walls. A Trombe wall is a passive solar heating system consisting of a masonry wall...

One of the things that you will learn about at our upcoming Visible Green Home® Earth Day Celebration Tour of BURH BECC at BEACON SPRINGS on April 25th, was the innovative use of reclaimed/recycle/repurposed materials. One such instance was for the finished ceiling...

In celebration of Earth Day 2026 we are presenting one of the most paradigm-changing, sustainable homes we have created to date. Come see a home that was the second residence in the world to have attained full Living Certification under the Living Building Challenge®,...

In celebration of Earth Day 2026 we are presenting one of the most paradigm-changing, sustainable homes we have created to date. Come see a home that was the second residence in the world to have attained full Living Certification under the Living Building Challenge®,...

One of the special conversations, and cautionary warnings, that we shared with our guests at this past weekend’s Builders and Remodelers Association of Greater Ann Arbor’s 2026 Home Show was the guidance of not building a “BNO." Coined by our colleague, Gary Kade,...

Thank you to all of the folks who stopped by our booth at the Builders and Remodelers Association of Greater Ann Arbor’s 2026 Home Show this past weekend at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Saline. We had a great turn out and our colleagues Gary Kade, Green...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have released the game changing Uniform Appraisal Dataset Version 3.6. (UAD 3.6). This new dataset standardizes the appraisal process by adding dedicated sections for Energy Efficient and Green Features, moving data like solar panels, HVAC...

We received the most beautiful, enchanting (and mysteriously anonymous) hand-crafted letter in the mail recently. It was an elegantly composed short bit of prose celebrating one of our Arts and Crafts homes (also anonymous). Here is an excerpt: “When the trees spoke...