Hot Off the Press (pun intended!) New England Home Magazine’s July/August Issue

Just peeked inside the beautiful July/August issue of New England Home which arrived yesterday and was delighted to find  a Case Study on a sustainable home that TMS  Architects designed in the White Mountains of NH in their informative Green Living section.  Aptly titled “A New Hampshire Farmhouse” , the author, Diane M. Sterrett, spoke with the project’s lead architect, Shannon Alther, and discussed the project’s challenges, solutions and the sustainable design and materials used in the construction.  As Shannon explained, the homeowners wanted to do the project as green as possible but also wanted to maintain architectural quality…”for instance, when you add solar panels on a roof, it can be tricky and you can tell they were added.  So, for the panels on the barn roof, we adjusted the trim and how the panels sat on the roof so from the ground up, it looked like the panels were actually the plane of the roof” .  The author’s conclusion is that “the home successfully pays homage to the original farmhouse, synthesizing old-world values and modern technology to show that sustainability can be beautiful.”