The first Poem Home will be built in 2019 in Spring Green, Wisconsin.  It’s a super-insulated, passive solar, 1208 square footprint home with the following features:

Mechanical & Thermal Envelope

• PV solar panels sized to offset a year’s energy costs
• ductless air-source heat pump (mini-split)
• ducted heat recovery ventilator (HRV)
• super-insulated Marathon hot water heater
• Water-Sense rated plumbing fixtures
• radon mitigation system
• 12″ thick double 2×4 wall with dense-pack cellulose R-42
• 18″ deep roof truss with vent channel and dense-pack cellulose R-56
• concrete slab on foam insulation R-20
• blower door tested to airtightness 1.0 ACH@50Pa

Interior

• 1048 sf interior area
• master bedroom with en suite bathroom, curb-less tiled shower
• second bedroom with adjacent bathroom, curb-less tiled shower
• laundry with drying rack
• streamlined kitchen with lots of counter and storage
• spacious living-dining room with 12 foot wide patio door
• vaulted ceilings
• locally milled rough-sawn storage loft
• custom cabinets

Exterior

• screened porch
• semi-attached 2-car garage
• standing seam concealed fastener steel roof
• sustainably harvested natural finish wood siding
• cement board siding
• locally milled white oak pergola and porch posts/beams
• Marvin fiberglass windows R-3.7

Landscape

• swales and rain gardens
• native stone retaining wall
• vegetable garden
• no-mow grass
• windbreak and shade trees
• prairie garden
• buried 400 gallon rainwater cistern tied to gutter system