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Santa Fe Still One of The Ten Best Places to Retire

August 17, 2012 by Malissa Kullberg Leave a Comment

Awesome sunsets, giant cultural heritage, 300+ days of sunshine and miles of art makes Santa Fe a perennial favorite on lists of Best Places to Live and Retire.  The most recent accolades come from CBS MoneyWatch. The Ten Best Places to Retire talks up our abundant and accessible outdoor recreation, the iconic Opera house and the wide-range of outlets to exercise the mind and feed the spirit. No mention of our fabulous food or the myriad of locally grown or flavored creative wonders (Caldera Gallery, Wise Fool, Meow Wolf, Axle Contemporary.  Or the tireless, Behind-the-Scenes activists for artistic expansion (The After Hours Alliance, Red Cell, Joseph SantaFe Pulse. But that’s just more for newcomers to discover.

“All those amenities will cost you: $380,000 is the median home price,” concludes

 

Filed Under: Featured, Santa Fe Blog, Santa Fe Homes For Sale, Santa Fe Real Estate Tagged With: creative, Santa Fe, Top Picks

Santa Fe Green Scene: Hempcrete for Housing?

January 3, 2011 by Malissa Kullberg 1 Comment

Screen Shot 2013-11-10 at 3.04.07 PMA home made of hempcrete –a mixture of lime, water and industrial hemp– is the most recent bit of brilliance I’ve found in my ongoing scan for creative housing ideas. Known by various trade names, including Hemcrete®, Isochanvreis, Canosmose, and Canobiote, the substance is durable, waterproof, fireproof, insect and rot resistant. Significantly, it is also Carbon Negative, meaning that it traps more CO2 than its production creates. Plus, it has an exceptionally high insulating capacity.

The Hempcrete House was built in Asheville, North Carolina by eco-friendly design and construction company Push Design for the former mayor of Asheville. (read more at the Asheville Citizen Times website). It’s an elegant soft contemporary (Check out this YouTube by Hemp Technologies,) but the material would adapt well to our Pueblo vernacular.  Hempcrete is made by pouring a lime-water-hemp slurry into small containers which are then packed between forms. After drying, the 12″ thick walls are then covered with lime and stucco. The result could easily comply with Santa Fe’s Historical Building ordinance.

Hemp remains illegal to grow in the U.S. and expensive to import. Yet, unlike its controversial cousin, hemp would be impossible to abuse.  As Push Design’s David Mosrie puts it, someone “would have to smoke the Master Bedroom [2500 pounds of hemp] to get high.”

I tapped Kim Shanahan, executive officer for the Santa Fe Home Builders Association and respected local Green Building expert, for his opinion. “Until we can get back to growing industrial hemp here in the U.S., I don’t see a practical application here in Santa Fe.”  Shanahan did introduce me toFaswall, an amalgam of mineralized wood chips, concrete and fly ash that’s comparable in characteristics, though without the hemp composite’s carbon negative appeal. “Any re-use of waste products is a good thing,” said Shanahan. “Adobe is still our favorite indigenous product, followed quickly by locally, sustainably harvested wood.”

 

Until hemp growing is given a regulatory green light, its use is likely to be restricted. But its ability to adapt to traditional and modern building styles and superior ecological value make it a promising –if distant– Green building possibility for the Santa Fe home market.Screen Shot 2013-11-10 at 3.06.58 PM

**On Tuesday, March 1, 2001, Daniel Clavio and Robin Dorrell will teach a 3 hour class on Alternative Building Methods and Materials at the Santa Fe Community College. Learn about the energy efficiency and Green characteristics of straw bale, adobe, Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF), Pumice Crete, Aerated Autoclave Concrete and more. The course will touch on new insulation and advance framing techniques and briefly discuss other forms of alternative construction including rammed earth, straw/clay, cob, timber frame and Earth Ships. This economical course should be an excellent lay person’s introduction to the field. Thanks to the Santa Fe Creative Tourism Blog for bringing this to our attention.

Filed Under: Santa Fe Homes Tagged With: building styles, Carbon Negative, contemporary, creative, eco-friendly, Green, housing, insulating, modern, Santa Fe Home Market, traditional

Greentelligence on the Home Front

September 2, 2010 by Malissa Kullberg 2 Comments

“Consumers in general want a home that is cozier, more organized and more economical in terms of operating costs,” said Stacy Rogers in Home Buying Trends in 2010.

Behold the acme of cozy, organized, energy-efficient operation: Gary Chang’s “Domestic Transformer.”

With the use of sliding screens, architect and homeowner, Chang, mutipurposed his 330 square foot Hong Kong apartment into 24 distinct rooms.  The result is a home that’s comfortable, commodious and ultra-hip. Watch the video and marvel at the man’s brilliance.

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While Cheng’s design is a sharp departure from the soft curves and natural materials that characterize “Santa Fe style,” the creative intelligence that spawned it is not.  Architects?

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If you thought 330 square feet was small, check out the work of Derek Diedricksen whose super small houses, profiled in the February 23th New York Times’ article,  The $200 Microhouse, are charming interplays of scavenged materials and ingenuity.  Although limited in comforts and practicality, the little domiciles are as inspiring as their maker.  You’ve got to admire the innocent moxie of a man who, when asked what a construction he was asked to make for The Homeless was called said, “The $100 Homeless Hut…I made up the name right now.” High on imaginative drive, low on pretense –just like a kid.

Filed Under: Green Homes, Real Estate Tagged With: creative, design, energy efficient, Home buying trends, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Downtown

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Sights and Sounds: Changing Gallery’s May 2 Event

By the time the evening was over, we could see our breath, but hours of damp and chill didn’t quench the warm afterglow from Sights and Sounds, Changing Gallery’s recent mix of art and music. Rising talent, Phillip Vigil, plastered Unit Seven with his energetic pastels. Jennifer Joseph had two paintings in Unit Six and […]

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See and Be Scene

A little over a year ago, my business partner and I held our first art opening at our listing at 123 West Santa Fe Avenue.  We knew a few artists without gallery representation in Santa Fe; I’d been the co-director of a contemporary art gallery in Santa Fe; we had open walls and a killer […]

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Dining Santa Fe: Best New Mexican

Last week, The Santa Fe Reporter released its much anticipated Best of Santa Fe issue, the results of an annual reader poll ( SFReporter.com.) While we share a number of favorites, our short list for best New Mexican does not include this year’s multiple-category winner, Tomasita’s (although they do make fine sopapillas and fabulous honey […]

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Santa Fe Art Scene: Substance over Style

Sure, Santa Fe was crowned a UNESCO Creative City in 2005 (for folk art and design) and has apparent squatter’s right in the Small Cities category of American Style’s annual poll on the top 25 arts destinations.  We’re known for the Canyon Road art galleries, the opera, Indian Market, Spanish Market and most recently, the […]

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