100% sustainable house overlooking the Hudson River

100% sustainable house overlooking the Hudson River -

An architect became falconer views animals and nature when designing of his own home. Overlooking the Hudson River, nearly 3,000 square feet sustainable Allan Shope house has furniture handmade and a corrugated floor, all made from the felled black walnut trees on the site. Shope and his wife carefully designed an ecological landscape: For example, they are fallen trees with holes that could support the nest of an owl. They also planted flower species that feed hummingbirds and monarch butterflies. Shope laid granite slabs regenerated trail that leads to the Hudson River below. To discourage all bird collisions, Ornilux windows of her home using a special internal coating for reflecting the visible ultraviolet light to birds but invisible to the human eye.

The interior strikes with lovely rich walnut color used throughout the floors and walls to furniture. Black walnut flooring to fit like a puzzle. I totally love all these natural cracks in the wood, they look so natural and so beautiful - beauty is in the imperfections, you know. The owner likes to give second life to things and use of recovered and recycled materials as much as possible, that's why in simple brass screws that affix antibacterial copper bathroom coating were recovered from a barn roof in Connecticut. Screen frames bronze recovery of the buildings on the property Amenia Shope, then cut into small stripes, line under the bathroom door. The house is open to the valley to get the most out of Hudson River views and fully enjoy the seasons, even the sound of the ice cracking Hudson River in winter. The owner and the architect of the house sets the highest ecological responsibility that human needs and was able to show that this principle, you can still get a wonderful home.