green home: Ok, Ok, Here's an Update!!!!!

I'm glad we have such a loyal fan base! We've heard from so many people wanting updates, so here it is. With "Back to School" over for us now, we can focus back on the house. We've started installing the HRV (Heat Recovery Ventilation), and have installed both of the storm doors. Today we worked on the "mud room" coat storage area. I'll post more pics tomorrow when it's finished. Below you can see the finished pictures of the kids' playset, and the really cool thing about the playset is that we had some leftover lumber from the kit that we were able to use to build our custom mud room coat storage area - it's really cool, you'll love it!

In these two pics above and below, you can see the new area rug under the dining room table. I called my rep at Interface Flooring and told him about the project. BTW for those of you who are not in the design field, Interface is THE best commercial carpet company in terms of environmental responsibility and sustainability. Feel free to read their CEO (Ray Anderson's) book, Mid Course Correction. Anyway, so the rep hooks me up and I pick out the tiles above. We're still waiting for the living area tiles - YES, I'll post pictures when they come in. The colors don't read as well here as in real life - there's more orange to it in reality, but you get the idea. . .

One thing to add about the playset: a lot of the mulch that you see there is actually mulch that we made from a huge pile of trees and brush that we had been stockpiling on our property since we started building. We rented a chipper and within about 2 or 3 hours, it was all reduced to what you see here. We ended up needing more, so there is a load of mulch there from a bulk landscape supplier that we purchased. We could actually use a bit more and we'll probably buy it since the rental on the chipper is like the price of 4 or 5 loads of the bulk stuff we bought.