HGTV Green Home Giveaway 2010
GTV’s Green Home Giveaway is back once again. Located nearby Plymouth, Massachusetts in Pinehills, this home was built using green build standards and contains all the eco-friendly features anybody would want.
The total prize package is worth over $800,000 and includes this beautiful eco-friendly cottage, $100,000 cash and an hybrid truck. You can enter once daily on their site through June 4, 2010.
Now that we know what giveaway is for, let’s take a look at how the home looks and some of the home’s great features:
The house features a huge kitchen, lots of red, beautiful furniture, a large outdoor area and over 2,000 sq. ft. Those are great things to have in a home, but I’m more interested in all the “Green” features of the home. After all, that’s why it’s called HGTV’s Green Home.
Ignoring all the shameless promotions for the massive truck, there really are some great green features in the home. So much so that the home received the National Association of Home Builders Gold certification, there second highest award. Of the total 813 buildings in America that received awards from this organization, about 200 homes have received this award and this is only the second in the state of Massachusetts.
Here is list of all the details that help get this home the gold certification ordered by room.
Living Room
The living room features large windows that allow tons of light into the room. Energy bills will be reduced with all the natural lighting entering in the house during the day. To keep the homeowners warm during the winter, there is a stone fireplace made from reclaimed fieldstone. Side and accent tables are made from natural reclaimed wood from fallen trees.
Kitchen
The countertops are made from sustainable natural quartz countertops from CaesarStone, which is made from recycled raw materials and is GreenGuard certified. All of the appliances are GE Profile Energy Star-rated appliances. To ligtht the space, LED recessed lighting is used that allows for an approximately 75% energy savings over traditional incandescent lighting.
Dining Room
The dining table is the most impressive part of this space. It was created from old wood and mateirals that were salvaged from various sources. There also features a branch sculpture that was crafted locally to divide the dining room from the living room.
Bathrooms
The master bathroom features CaesarStone countertops that are just as eco-friendly, but provide a different look for the bathroom. Low-flow shower heads are featured in both bathrooms. Water is heated through an Energy Star qualified condensing gas boiler. These systems are ultra thermal efficient that are slightly more expensive upfront, the cost can be recouped in 2-3 years.
Bedrooms
The master bedroom features a bed made from old doors that were purchased from Habitat from Humanity. On top of that bed is an eco-friendly mattress topped with green bedding. Paper-mache lamps are featured in both rooms that were covered with low-VOC paint as well as handmade lamps made from recycled materials.
In the kids room, eco-friendly wood toys for indoor and outdoor use give the kids hours of entertainment. Even the carpeting used in each room is made from a portion of post consumer recycled content.
Exterior
Starting with the site of the home, here is a video that describes how they cleared the lot responsibly:
On top of the tower room in the home, as set of solar panels to help and Energy Star-rate shingles.. Wood trimming around the home comes from wood that was grown in sustainable forest. The chimney is made from the same reclaimed fieldstone as the fireplace in the dining room. Large trees were transplanted from other development sites to provide the trees a new home. The windows on the home are Andersons’ most energy efficient model that also keep out harmful UV rays. Also featured is an efficient water irrigation system and a rain barrel.
Community
One of the big draws for the planners of this home was the community atmosphere of Pinehills. The community was built on tryint to preserve as much natural environment as possible. Pinehills contains all the features anybody could want including wooded lots, walking and nature trails, a swimming pool, golf courses, shopping and health/fitness facilities. The great part is that all of this is within walking distance from the home.
Good luck and hopefully you are the next winner of HGTV’s Green Home Giveaway!
Comments
I wonder what the actual odds of winning would be? Sounds like a great opportunity.
Nice homes and it’s specially design to energy saving point of view.
Wonderful home design with large window of full lighting.
Hey! The videos aren’t playing anymore
Really nice homes. I wonder that how we can design this house.
This would be a dream come true after loseing our home in a fire but all I have ever know is to pay it forward so im sure someone who gets this dream home will need it more then me no matter what happens I will always keep pay it forward.
That’s sad to hear that you did lose you home. That would be great if you did win this home.
This home is soooo lovely-a little history-about plymouth- I was born there almost 60 years ago both my parents were born in the plymouth area .Winning this home for me would be a BLESSING FROM GOD.
SWEET DREAMS
How Much for the Rain Barrel? Where is it from???
LOVE IT!
What a lovely hom, peaceful, welcoming and environmentally friendly. How great is that! Well done.
WINNING THIS HOME WOULD MAKE ALL MY DREAMS COME TRUE,THE ONLY TIME I SPENT IN A HOME IS WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER WAS ALIVE I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A WONDERFUL MEMORY LIKE THAT FOR MY DAUGHTER WHO IS FOUR YEARS OLD,SHE NEVER RECIEVED THE CHANCE OF KNOWING MY GRANDMA BECAUSE SHE PASTED BEFORE MY CHILD WAS BORN.
i HOPE THIS WILL BE MY FUTURE DREAM HOME
I’m looking forward to winning this contest. I watch channel 30 all the time.I just got out of the hospital
and their is very little I can do.
i have been registering to win every home and would love to win,because we are moving somewhere,but my sister nancy lost her home 12 years ago when her husband died and has been renting since from place to place. she works at uab in b’ham al but has never had money enough to buy a home again. i wish she could win this home. she should have been a interior decorator. a wonderful person. lost her husband,her son our father and home within 3 years,but still goes on. i pray she wins this home.
this is the most nices thing anybody could ever do.gives unfouregent people to take a chance to try to win something like this. i have had a a poor life. i had a heartattact at the age of 43. anought of my life.i think there are a lot of people like me. i wish every body good luck. thanks for having things like this for people to have a chance at a good life
What a beautiful “HOME”. So many deserving people need a decent place to live. I would be so proud to call it my home. It would be such a blessing. I to agree this type of arrangement is needed more. We as a country are struggling to make it every day. Just knowing someone will be given this chance gives me hope that something will happen to make my life better. Everyone has a story, we all need a clean safe place to lay our heads at nights. Thank you to all that are involved it must be rewarding to be a part of such a good thing. Good Luck to All of Us!!!!!
i told some people that i was going to win the home. please don’t make me a liar. good luck to all.
This would be a dream come true for the whole family. I have 16 grandchildren and 4 great=grandchildren and to have a place like this for all of us to come to and have lots of fun together would just be wonderful. Also this would be a great place for my husband and I to be celebrating our 44th anniversary this July.
Why can I not access the Green Home Giveaway-ENTRY PAGE this morning at about 8:08 AM in California? I have been trying for a few minutes now, but the entry page will not submit my information. My computer says page unavailable.
NEVER MIND, I JUST GOT INTO THE WEB SITE AND WAS ABLE TO ENTER. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY HGTV!!!!!
My husband and I were married July 8, 1967. The year before my husband lost his oldest brother brother in a diving accident and 6 months latter lost his one and only other sibling due to a car accident. The folling April after were married we lost his Dad. It was a rockey start. Now it seems history has again repeated itself. February 2008 our oldest child our son collapeds at work and we lost him that night. The following March 2009 I also lost my husband. I think a new change would help my two daughters, daughter in law and grandchildren if we were lucky enough to win.
This is a beautiful home and being originally from the east coast I would love the opportunity to return there to be with family and relatives. My life in the Western states has taken a drastic turn after loosing my job in 2009, the loss of my mother, my brother and my mother-in-law, all within 8 months. Life deals us a bad hand sometimes, but with God’s help we can still make it. Blessings to whoever wins.
Thanks for reading and good luck to all of us.
BEAUTIFUL HOME. EVERYBODY HAS A STORY TO TELL ON HOW THEY NEED THIS HOME MOST. THE TRUTH IS EVERYONE IS STRUGGLING AND USUALLY THE ONES THAT ARE’NT ARE THE ONES THAT WIN.
I have been praying that this dream would come true for my two children and I. I am curretly divorced due to domestic violence. I have a 9 year old and a 14 year old. I struggle every day trying to put food on the table and pay my rent. I almost got evicted last year, but God is good. I just got laid-off from my job this month. Who ever wins this I pray that it’s someone who really needs it. I know there’s people out there who’s going through worst then I am. God bless.
One word to describe the color and design (especially the green room with red floor) “UNIQUE”