Today, interior designer Brian Patrick Flynn explores the HGTV Green Home 2012 powder room and offers design techniques that maximize smaller spaces. Check out his latest vlog, shot on location:
Today, interior designer Brian Patrick Flynn explores the HGTV Green Home 2012 powder room and offers design techniques that maximize smaller spaces. Check out his latest vlog, shot on location:
Today, interior designer Brian Patrick Flynn takes a closer look at one of HGTV Green Home’s most amazing outdoor spaces. The barbecue courtyard, which replaces a traditional backyard, connects to the kitchen, dining area and Georgia Room and has been designed to accomodate parties, large and small. Take a look:
Today, interior designer Brian Patrick Flynn explores the mudroom, the first and last room the HGTV Green Home 2012 winner will see each day. This space is chockablock with goodies. I love the custom peg rail and console table. Watch the video and discover even more behind-the-scenes details by reading captions in our Mud Room slideshow.
Several weeks ago, we put a call out for your faucet and bathroom fixture questions. Moen expert Laura Kelbley has kindly responded to your most compelling queries. Take a peek:
Q. What are the advantages of multiple showerheads?
A. Multiple showerheads provide an all-encompassing showering experience. Fixed rainfall sizes offer overall coverage while multifunction fixtures, like hand-held showerheads, assist with rinsing and cleaning.
Q. Do multiple showerheads result in increased water flow, water waste and higher utility costs?
A. Not necessarily. You may find that you only use one showerhead at a time. Also, a Moen Eco-Performance showerhead uses up to 30 percent less water without sacrificing performance. You’ll find products throughout our showering portfolio — wall-mount, hand shower and rainshower showerheads — that are certified to meet EPA WaterSense criteria. These fixtures also contribute points toward LEED certification.
Q. I am weighing the pros and cons of undermount versus drop-in sinks. How do installation and replacement costs differ?
A. Replacing a typical drop-in sink is generally a standard replacement. However, an undermount sink is a custom application. Therefore, the sink, cabinets and countertop will need to be taken into account when planning the installation.
Q. When will Moen come up with bathroom fixtures that not only offer digital controls but respond to voice commands as well?
A. ioDigital provides digital and remote control options for tub and shower fixtures, but Moen has not expanded into voice activation yet.
For more information, visit Moen.com.
Today I’d like to share a video starring designer Brian Patrick Flynn. He heads upstairs to demonstrate operation of the cupola windows, which open to expel hot air and ultimately cool the home.
If you’ve taken the virtual home tour or the public home tour, you know that HGTV Green Home 2012 is a true stunner. And it was that way even before a single piece of furniture was placed inside. I was taken by interior designer Linda Woodrum’s comment, during our recent interview: “The night before the furniture arrived, I was sad it was coming in,” she said. “I felt structurally it was so beautiful. I wanted to wait. I wanted to just enjoy the space. The unfurnished kitchen-dining-great room was gorgeous — so elegant, in an informal way.”
Want to learn more about the bones of this beautiful home? Please pop over to HGTVRemodels.com and watch the videos listed below. Then pop back here to post your thoughts.
• HGTV Dream Home 2012: A Small Home That Lives Large
• Modern Southern Farmhouse Design Details
• Modern Home Design With Minimal Trim
• Architectural Details of HGTV Green Home 2012
Now you can tour this beautiful modern farmhouse, not just online but IRL, too.
We’re excited to announce details about public tours of HGTV Green Home 2012. Learn how to buy tour tickets and see this sustainably built and gorgeously decorated home in person. Better hurry up — I’m sure time slots will be snatched up quickly!
While you’ve got HGTV Green Home on the brain, check out our Pinterest page — then create your own online pinboard with some of our most exquisite HGTV Green Home photography.
I am so pleased to present a how-to project created by HGTV Green Home carpenter David Brown: the headboard from the 2012 master bedroom. You may recall voting for this project when we posted a poll back in January. I look forward to your responses. I may just have to give this easy DIY project a try!
In other news, don’t forget to tune into the HGTV Green Home 2012 special, which airs tonight at 9 p.m. ET. Hosts Jamie Durie and Monica Pedersen are sure to unveil even more exclusive details about the home. You don’t want to miss this special presentation.
Are you ready, with fingers crossed and four-leaf clovers tucked in every corner of your home? I invite you to enter the HGTV Green Home 2012 Giveaway twice online per day — once on HGTV.com and once on HGTVRemodels.com — for your chance to win our amazing modern Southern farmhouse, an eco-friendly home nestled in the sustainable community of Serenbe (less than 30 minutes from Atlanta).
Attention, newbies: Once you enter, please take time to read through articles that highlight HGTV Green Home’s construction details and green features, then take the virtual home tour and participate in our housewarming vote and sweeps. Finally, take the green home style quiz to discover an eco-friendly home that’s perfect for you.
Good luck!
Greetings, folks.
I hope you are enjoying the HGTV Green Home 2012 virtual home tour and voting each day for housewarming gifts we will present to the giveaway winner.
Today, I offer a special invitation: Post your kitchen and bath design-related questions in the comments section below. We will choose the five best questions from the bunch and pose them to a design expert at Moen. The Q&A will be posted in the blog in late April. The deadline to post a question is Thursday, April 12 at 5 p.m. ET. Ready, set … go!
Join HGTVRemodels for a behind-the-scenes look at the construction of HGTV's Georgia Green Home.
