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RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT AWARD WINNERS, TOURISM The Viceroy Snowmass Resort & Residences and Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa offer guests an experience that’s sustainable from check-in to check-out.

RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT AWARD WINNERS, RESIDENTIALA traditionally styled cabin in Big Sky, Montana’s prestigiousYellowstone Club gets high marks for its environmental responsibility.Architecture by Dan Joseph ArchitectsInterior Design by Carole Sisson Designs

GREEN FROM THE GROUND UP For a home in the Sierras, sustainable solutions are the building blocks of the design, not just the finishing touches added at the end. Architecture by J.L.S. Design

STYLISH & SUSTAINABLE When renovating a century-old building, a Montana couple mixed historic charm with modern, eco-friendly functionality.Architecture by High Plains ArchitectsInterior Design by Envi Design

ON THE COVER An eco-friendly facelift transforms a historic building in Billings, Montana, intostylish, LEED-certified living spaces. Turn to page 74 for more. Photography by Audrey Hall

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SHOPPING Sustainable Seats Three chairs withone-of-a-kind silhouettes blend sustainability andfunctionality with rustic style.

GO GREEN Natural Selection Environmentally-friendly accents for the home are inspired by nature and made by hand.

INSIDER’S GUIDE Eco-Luxe LodgingFrom Tahoe to Tesuque, Park City to BeaverCreek, a new generation of mountain resorts ismaking it easy to stay green.

HOUSE OF THE MOMENT Perched on morethan two acres on Aspen’s Red Mountain, amountain-contemporary estate marries lots ofluxe touches with smart, sustainable design.

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Not long ago, I had a cup of coffee with an architect who knows quitea bit about sustainable design. “Why is it,” he asked me as we discussedour upcoming Green Issue, “that we have to call it ‘green’ design? Should-n’t it just be called ‘good’ design?”

I think he’s right. What we’ve all been calling “green” design is greenfor several reasons: it’s durable, it’s efficient, it’s functional, it responds toand respects the environment, it consumes as few natural resources aspossible, it’s made with materials that are obtained responsibly, and it’s

healthy for the people who live with it. I don’t know about you, but if I were building a house, “green” or not, I’d want it to do all of these

things. Seems to me that if it didn’t, it wouldn’t be a very good design. Why worry over semantics? Because it’s about much more than the words we use. If we all start-

ed thinking about “good” design rather than “green” design, maybe we’d drop those old associations wemake with all things “green” (you know, scratchy hemp fabrics, green-and-beige color palettes andgreat big shiny solar panels) and start getting really excited about designing and decorating sustainably.

As the smart and stylish products and projects featured in this issue prove, a sustainable home (orresort; you’ll find two great ones starting on page 56) can be every bit as luxurious and gorgeous andcomfortable as a conventional one. And it should come as little surprise. After all, it’s good design.

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THE RITZ-CARLTON HIGHLANDS Northstar at Tahoe, California

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DEVIL’S THUMB RANCH, Tabernash, Colorado Five thousand

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west of Denver. The eco-friendly features of these “parkitecture”-

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wood flooring, and water and catalytic converters on fireplaces.

The ranch’s 10,000-square-foot spa is a counterpoint to fine

cross-country skiing. 800-933-4339, www.devilsthumbranch.com

CEDAR HOUSE SPORT HOTEL Truckee, California Owners Jeff

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boutique hotel. The cedar, recycled steel and reforested log exteri-

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VICEROY SNOWMASS Snowmass, Colorado It’s a whole new

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art saline pool. Its 170 chic guestrooms, a 7,000-square-foot spa

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Nowhere is Naytura Design’s spirit of excellence more evident that at the

Double L Ranch. “We offer the ability to create almost anything,” Lance

Mortensen says. “If a client comes in and asks for a forested scene with a

pair of fighting bull elk, we can craft that to their exact specifications.”

True to the ranch’s Western ethos, the lighting and fireplace designs on

display there showcase the wildlife of the region, offering a link between the

homes and the natural world. These themes also illustrate a passion for the

outdoors that is shared by all residents of the Double L Ranch. By combin-

ing the splendor of the Wyoming landscape with his homebuilding expertise,

Mortensen has created a lifestyle here that is truly one of a kind.

Visit Naytura Designs at www.naytura.com and the Double L Ranch at

www.dblranch.com for more information.


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got a big dose of glamour when the Viceroy Snowmass Resort & Residencesopened its doors last November. With ultra-chic interiors by acclaimed designer Jean-Michel Gathy, a pool café and terrace by cel-ebrated designer Kelly Wearstler and a hard-to-beat ski-in/ski-out location at the base of the Assay Hill lift, the village’s signaturehotel offers a taste of a newer, more sophisticated Snowmass.

More than 170 guest rooms range from stylish studios to four-bedroom residences, each with galley or full kitchens. Guestsare treated to a variety of ultra-luxe amenities including a dramatic fine-dining restaurant, an 87-foot-long, glass-topped après-skibar, slopeside ski-valet services, a decadent full-service spa and a stylish slopeside pool with fireplace-warmed cabanas.

When the initial plans for the Viceroy Snowmass were drafted, LEED certification wasn’t part of the design. But when devel-oper Related WestPac took over the Snowmass Base Village project, it insisted not only on Viceroy Snowmass becoming one ofthe first LEED Silver-certified resorts in North America, but on entering the entire base village into the prestigious LEED forNeighborhood Development Pilot Program and certifying every new building in the Base Village project. >>VICEROY SNOWMASS RESORT & RESIDENCES, 888-328-1724, WWW.VICEROYSNOWMASS.COM

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ECO-FRIENDLY AMENITIES

The Viceroy Snowmass isn’t just built green. The resort is dedicated to providing guests with an experience that’s sus-tainable from (paperless) check-in to check-out. Start by offsetting the carbon your visit creates with the purchase of oneof the Canary Initiative’s “Canary Tags.” The money collected helps fund local renewable energy projects throughout theRoaring Fork Valley or is invested directly into the Colorado Carbon Offset Fund. Even if you don’t participate, the resorthas purchased renewable energy credits to offset 70 percent of its energy usage for its first two years of operation.

“GREEN” CAR CARE Arrive in a low-emitting vehicle and receive discounted parking; come in a hybrid or electric car andparking is free. A battery-charging station (one of the first two in the Aspen/Snowmass area) lets you power up for free.

HYDRATION STATIONS When you’re vacationing at 8,000 feet, staying hydrated is key. Viceroy makes it easy—and eco-friendly—by providing reusable stainless-steel water bottles at check-in, as well as refill stations throughout the resort.

SALINE POOL A state-of-the-art pool uses salt and electrocurrent to create its own chlorine. In addition to using fewerchemicals, it doesn’t have the harsh burn and smell of a typical chlorine pool and isn’t as salty as a dedicated salt-water pool.

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A CHIC (AND GREEN) RETREAT

Created by renowned designer Jean-Michel Gathy, each resort “residence” is a comfortable home away from home, completewith a kitchen, washer and dryer, gas fireplace, private sun deck and inviting feather-duvet-topped bed.

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Chic spa bathrooms feature deep soaking tubs and stylish fixtures that are also water efficient. Toilets are low-flow and faucets are fitted with low-flow aerators to minimize water waste without compromising water pres-sure. Full-sized bottles of Neil George shampoo, conditioner, hand soap and lotion are refilled for each new guest.

TEMPERATURE CONTROL Programmable thermostats equipped with motion sensors sense when you’ve entered or exitedthe room and adjust the temperature accordingly. In-room thermostats will soon be centrally controlled, ensuring that unoc-cupied rooms aren’t heated or cooled unnecessarily. Zoned heating and air conditioning helps control energy usage, too.

HIGH-TECH TOUCHES Occupancy sensors located throughout the resort—in closets, vending-machine rooms and back-of-the-house spaces—make sure the lights are turned off in unused spaces, even when you forget!

A host of non-traditional and forward-thinking measures were implemented in order to qualify the ViceroySnowmass for LEED certification. Rather than transporting the dirt removed from the construction site dur-ing excavation to an off-site location, as is the norm, it was stored on site and reused for backfilling. To mini-mize equipment and fuel costs, as well as the unattractive aspects of large-scale resort construction, the resort’sconcrete structures, plumbing and electric assemblies were prefabricated off-site, then delivered and reassem-bled. To further reduce traffic, construction workers were shuttled to the site each day. (Today, employees areencouraged to use public transportation, including an electric bus purchased just for them.)

Local and recycled building materials, many sourced from fewer than 500 miles away, were used through-out the resort. The building’s façade features “Telluride Gold” masonry stone that’s mined from a site adjacentto the Telluride airport that otherwise would have been blasted to expand runways and safety areas. A com-prehensive construction-recycling program, including an innovative drywall-recycling program, was imple-mented to responsibly dispose of scraps and debris—and cut down on trips to the landfill. ●

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LOW IMPACT, HAUTE CUISINE

At Eight K restaurant, named for the Viceroy’s elevation of 8,000 feet, chefs Rob Zack and David Cruz serve

up creative and approachable cuisine against a backdrop of cool “contemporary Alpine” decor—think birch

tree lattice walls, floor-to-ceiling fireplaces, a luxe library lounge (featuring a curated collection of design books

and art from Snowmass’ Anderson Ranch Art Center) and sleek glass bar. Prepared in a dramatic display

kitchen, menu items incorporate humanely raised livestock (that are fed a vegetarian diet without antibiotics or

hormones), sustainably produced seafood, and seasonal and organic ingredients, many sourced from a local

farm. To minimize waste, filtered water is served in reusable glass bottles, and bottled water is served only upon

request. Fryer oil is recycled after use and a food-waste composting program is in the works, too.

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Westin Riverfront Resort & Spathe Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa in Avon, Colorado, is everything you’d expect from a luxury

high-country hotel. Situated at the base of Beaver Creek Mountain, just over 200 wholly owned guest residences feature con-temporary “mountain-modern” decor, custom kitchens, five-piece bathrooms, cozy fireplaces and beautiful mountain views.Amenities range from a ski valet, fitness center, pool and oversized riverside hot tubs to a decadent spa and gourmet restaurants.

But it’s what you don’t expect from a luxury hotel that makes this resort special. The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa is thefirst hotel in Colorado to achieve LEED certification of any level and only the ninth hotel in the country to earn LEED Silvercertification. To achieve this level of sustainability—while maintaining the look, feel and service of a luxury hotel—the resortimplemented a host of creative and environmentally conscious building strategies, materials and operating procedures. >>WESTIN RIVERFRONT RESORT & SPA, 866-949-1616, WWW.WESTINRIVERFRONTAVON.COM

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GREEN BEHIND THE SCENESThe Westin Riverfront’s sustainable features aren’t just for show. Behind closed

doors, employees are just as committed to going green. The resort has created

an “Employee Green Team” to oversee sustainability efforts on the property;

each department, from housekeeping to food and beverage, is represented by

a staff member who is responsible for overseeing various green projects.

Employees use only recycled paper, soy-based inks and energy-efficient LED

and CFL light bulbs for back-of-house operations, and regularly participate

in highway, bike path and river cleanups. They’re also rewarded for carpool-

ing or using alternative methods of transportation to get to and from work.

GUEST ROOMS GONE GREEN

REUSE Many hotels now offer the opportunity to conserve water, detergent and energy by opting outof linen replacement or housekeeping services, but here they’ve sweetened the deal. Participate inthe “Make a Green Choice” program and you’ll be rewarded with a resort gift card each day.

REDUCE All guest rooms feature energy-efficient lighting and appliances. Digital thermostats can becontrolled from the front desk to ensure that unoccupied rooms aren’t unnecessarily heated or cooled.

RECYCLE Spacious bathrooms are fitted with low-flow, water-efficient plumbing fixtures and eachroom has a recycling bin—perfect for stashing the morning paper and empty water bottles.

REFRESH Housekeeping gets rooms spic and span using eco-friendly cleaning products and microfiber cloths. A convenient dry-cleaning service refreshes clothes using cleaning methodsand agents that are healthy for guests and the environment.

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Breathe easy: Spa Anjali is Colorado’sfirst dedicated “green” spa and is com-mitted to using only environmentally-friendly products and organic linens.

HEALTHFUL SKINCARE Every productthat touches your skin is 100-percent or-ganic and free of harmful and syntheticingredients. Products sold in the spa’s re-tail shop are eco-friendly, too. (Bring inyour empty skincare bottles for a refill,and you’ll be rewarded with a discount.)

A SAFER SWIM The swimming pool’ssaline-based treatment system uses 90percent fewer chemicals than a traditionalchlorine pool, making it easier on skin andhair—and the environment.

ECO-FRIENDLY ATTIRE Comfy robesand sheets are made from bamboo, asustainable fiber grown using minimalpesticides and fertilizers. Spa slippers aremade from recycled plastic.

RENEWABLE BEAUTY Sleek wood floorsaren’t just for show. They’re made frombamboo, a rapidly renewable grass that’sharvested when the plant is just five or sixyears old, leaving behind new shoots thatcan be harvested from again and again.(Compare that to hardwood trees, whichcan require decades to mature.)

SUSTAINABLE SPA

The resort’s sustainable design begins with its siting. To limit the need for artificial lighting during the day, the building was posi-tioned to capture as much sunlight as possible. Once construction began, more than 40 percent of building materials were sourcedfrom fewer than 500 miles away. At times, this meant bypassing the usual distribution channels. For example, the Westin paid anextra fee to have drywall shipped directly from the American Gypsum factory in Gypsum, Colorado, rather than ordering it from a ware-house in Denver. Ten percent of building materials are made from post-consumer or industrial recycled content, including roof tilesmade from shredded automobile tires. Low- and non-emitting paints, adhesives, wood products and carpets keep the air quality high(a resort-wide non-smoking policy helps, too), and half of the resort’s electricity comes from renewable sources, including wind power.

Giving back to the community was a priority for the Westin, which took measures to restore and preserve natural wetlandsnear the property. The resort also designated an adjacent parcel of land as open space and enhanced a five-acre riparian zonealong the Eagle River, then donated it to the Town of Avon as a permanent public open space. To minimize traffic while easilydelivering guests and locals to the slopes of the Beaver Creek ski area (in fewer than three minutes) the Westin built the newRiverfront Express Gondola, the ultimate in free—and fun—public transportation. ●

Seasonal, fresh and local ingredients play a starring role in every dish created by Thomas Salamunovich, chef/owner of the re-sort’s Restaurant Avondale. The West Coast-inspired seasonal menu utilizes time-honored cooking methods like slow roastingand braising to create simple dishes with big flavors. Sustainable meats and fish are prepared using cooking oils that are freeof trans fats; after use, kitchen oils are filtered and given a second life as biofuel.

SMART WATER You won’t find plastic water bottles here. An in-house water-purifying and bottling system eliminates the resort’s need for carbon-emitting water-bottling plants and transportation. Best of all, the glass water bottles can be reused.

SUSTAINABLE SERVICE ITEMS Menus are printed with soy-based inks, serving platters are made from salvaged black aca-cia wood, beverages are sipped through biodegradable straws, and doggie bags are biodegradable, unbleached and made ofrecycled, non-petroleum-based content.

“GREENER” WORKSPACES Food-preparation areas are illuminated by energy-efficient bulbs. Paper towels are unbleachedand made with recycled content, and all glass, plastic and paper products are recycled; a composting program takes care offood waste. Dining ware is washed with low-flow dish-spray valves that use just 1.6 gallons of water per minute.

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CONSCIENTIOUS CUISINE

An exterior emphasizing log columns and beams and stonewalls makes the Thomson family’s rustic-looking cabin near BigSky, Montana, look like it was built beside a natural mountainpond more than a century ago. In fact, both the home and thepond were completed just less than a year ago, meeting thehighest standards of the United States Green Building Council.

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“green” building often conjures images of contemporary structureswith clean, unornamented lines. So you might be surprised—and rightfully so—to learn that a rustic cabin be-side a pond near Big Sky, Montana, is the residential winner of Mountain Living’s 2010 Responsible Develop-ment Award—not to mention a recipient of the LEED for Homes Platinum rating, the top designation forresidences awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Credit this feat to the collaboration of a visionary homeowner, an inspired architect and dedicated, inno-vative builders. Todd Thomson set out to create for himself, his wife and their three children “a family campthat feels and looks like it has existed for 100 years” yet also expresses his values as an environmentalist andboard member of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank in Washington, D.C. To helphim realize that vision at Headwaters Camp, a 22-acre parcel at 8,000 feet in the exclusive >>

GREEN FEATURES Even the home’s most up-to-date features combine sustainability and traditional style.

OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT The comfortably furnished great room (opposite) encourages gatheringsaround an efficiently insulated fireplace clad in a veneer of local stone. To the left of the hearth, doors of reclaimed, well-weathered wood conceal a sophisticated home-entertainment system and, below it, a built-in wine cooler.

RESPONSIBLY LIT As night falls, the cabin’s exterior (above left) glows softly and warmly as if lit by lanterns. In fact, all ofthe home’s lighting utilizes fixtures that consume little energy or that use energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs.

EQUINE ENVIRONMENT A short stroll from the cabin, the two-stall horse barn (above right) looks equally rustic though itwas recently built. Constructed of reclaimed materials, it includes a composting toilet, a gray-water reuse system and arooftop solar panel array that helps to offset some of the home’s energy demands.

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Yellowstone Club, he enlisted Bozeman-based architect Dan Turvey, AIA, principal and owner of Dan Joseph Architects, and C. Todd Thesing and Rob McRae, co-owners of specialty builders Highline Partners in Big Sky.

From the start, the team kept sustainability and sense of place top of mind. “We spent weeks just on the mas-ter planning,” says Turvey, recounting how they carefully walked the woods and meadows to decide where to setan eventual three cabins, horse barn and a series of natural-looking ponds and streams.

The results are evident in the first completed residence: an 1,800-square-foot guest cabin now occupied by theThomsons. Built with frame construction using engineered wood products and composite insulation, it nonethe-less looks like a traditional cabin—though the sustainably harvested logs were ingeniously added afterward, alongwith such other finishes as reclaimed wood paneling and local stone. “It expresses the cultural heritage of a log cabin,” says Turvey, “while having the highest energy efficiency imaginable.” >>

“The structure expresses the cultural heritage of a log cabin while having the

highest energy efficiency imaginable.”

GREEN FEATURES The exterior and interiors alike express an intimate connection to this home’s forest setting.

OUT OF THE WOODS Poised on the edge of a man-made pond (opposite), the cabin is embraced by tow-ering trees that are echoed in the timbers framing itsexterior. Standing-dead timbers from the property, aswell as trees cleared from the homesite, were used inconstruction. Afterward, wood scraps were chippedand used as fuel for a manufacturing plant in Idaho.

KITCHEN RECYCLING The kitchen (this page) features a wealth of reclaimed and natural materials,including work counters of unfinished local stone, araised countertop of reclaimed timber, and cabinetryrepurposed from an antique green-painted hutch.

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Enhancing that efficiency are a wealth of environmentally conscious features. Chief among these is the scenicone-acre pond built beside the house itself. Lining its 20-foot-deep bottom are radiator-like stainless-steel geo-thermal exchangers through which a glycol-based heat-transfer liquid circulates, collecting warmth from the pondeven on sub-freezing days to heat radiant units in the cabin’s floor. Other green elements include a 3-kilowatt solararray, a fresh-air-exchange system that minimizes heat loss, and a gray-water reclamation system that stores showerand sink water to reuse for flushing toilets and sub-surface irrigation.

All those features, estimates Thesing, ultimately added only 1 to 5 percent to the cabin’s total construction costs.“But you see the return pretty quickly in reduced energy bills and maintenance costs,” he says. “This really sets thebar for the high-end market of second homes.” ●

GREEN FEATURES In private spaces and public features alike, the home’s design emphasizes green practices.

RECLAIMED SPACE Because the family downsized from a 5,000-square-foot home to just 1,800 square feet,the master bedroom (opposite) “maximizes every square inch for storage,” says builder Todd Thesing. Be-neath the bed are drawers made from the same reclaimed timber as the built-in dresser beside it. Even theposts at the foot of the bed were made from reclaimed standing-dead juniper branches.

FROM BREAD TO WATER The guest bath (above left) features a wide washbasin fashioned from an antique trough used for kneading dough.

BACK TO NATURE Part of the site improvements developed by the architect, owner and builders for the 22-acre property, almost a mile of trails for hiking, snowshoeing, horseback riding or mountain biking wind throughwoodlands and meadows and connect to Yellowstone Club and National Forest Service trails beyond.

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FOR A TRUCKEE, CALIFORNIA, RESIDENCE, SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS ARE THE BUILDING

BLOCKS OF THE DESIGN, NOT JUST THE FINISHES THAT COME INTO PLAY AT THE END

STORY BY CAROLINE EBERLY

PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL SHERMAN

ARCHITECTURE J.L.S. DESIGN

“I’m a little cynical about the current state ofeverything that’s green,” Joel Sherman admits. Thearchitect, principal of J.L.S. Design, laments thosedesigns for which sustainable features are earth-friendly afterthoughts, not integral parts that makeup the whole. For Sherman, slapping solar panelson the roof does not make a project “green.”

That’s why when he set out to design thismountain-modern home in the Sierras, he startedwith the right materials, using them as buildingblocks for the home’s design. Take his use of aprefabricated roofing application called SIPS—Structural Insulated Panel System—as a case inpoint. “The [home’s] layout was based on thestructural spanning capacity of the SIPS,” Sher-man says. “The inherent design is based on thematerial use. I call it structural integrity.”

Though this dwelling’s list of eco-friendly fea-tures is long (and includes a palette of durable ex-terior materials, extensive insulation and a “smart”home-technology system), Sherman would ratheryou not be able to see green. “I love it when greenaspects are integrated and you might not evenknow they’re there,” he says. “I’m always trying totread that fine line of architecture being scienceand art put together, not just a good science proj-ect. Can you also make it a place that exudes emotion, where people will want to live?” he asks.We think this home proves you can. ●

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THIS PAGE: Local craftsman Dyllon Robertusmade the custom dining table out of manholecovers and reclaimed wood. Designer Hoff-mann and homeowner Joni Harman added$30 chairs from Granny’s Attic, an antiquesstore in Billings, and two oversized Artemidelamps. OPPOSITE: The renovation team com-pletely rehabbed the Swift and Co. building’scentury-old exterior, repairing and replacingbricks, rebuilding the original canopy and in-stalling energy-efficient double-pane windows.

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STORY BY ELISABETH A. SULLIVAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY AUDREY HALL

WHEN RENOVATING A CENTURY-OLD BUILDING, A MONTANA COUPLE MIXED HISTORIC CHARM WITH MODERN, ECO-FRIENDLY FUNCTIONALITY

Montana offers plenty of opportunities for big-sky living and near-endless acreage, but Joni and Steve Harmanhave found another way to connect with their natural surroundings. They’re doing their part to preserve them byliving leaner and greener in downtown Billings.

Last year, the Harmans completed an eco-friendly, historically minded renovation on a 94-year-old building thatonce served as Swift and Co.’s wholesale meat market, turning it into nine water- and energy-efficient apartments,including this, their own modern, handsomely appointed two-bedroom home. >>

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In effect, the couple and their Billings-based renovation team “recycled an entire building,” says Susie Hoff-mann, founder of environmentally conscious interior design firm Envi Design. With lofty goals of making their newhome both stylish and sustainable, the Harmans and their team ultimately earned the building a LEED for HomesPlatinum rating, the top designation for residences awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council.

“All parties, I would say, were collectively working on that goal,” Joni Harman says. “We were hoping to be amodel” for budding renovators to replicate.

To that end, the crew at High Plains Architects, a Billings-based firm that specializes in sustainable architecture,got creative with the building’s temperature control: They designed the radiant heating system so that the samepipes used to heat the building could also cool it during the summer. It takes much less energy to move waterthrough pipes than to circulate air, says Randy Hafer, the firm’s president and CEO, so the radiant heating and cool-ing system helps the building use 45 percent less energy than a comparable new building would. >>

OPPOSITE: To cozy up the large, open living space, Hoffmann grouped chairs and couches into distinct seating areas, like these secondhand chairsfacing a custom fireplace by local metal artisan Dyllon Robertus. She warmed up the room’s industrial doors and polished concrete floors by layering intexture with area rugs and patterned upholstery. BELOW: In the living room, designer Susie Hoffmann effortlessly mixed old with new. She complementedthe room’s original beams and bead-board walls with drum shade pendants from CB2 and Midcentury Modern orange couches from Room & Board.

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The Harmans’ home is a study in well-balanced contrasts—historic and modern, recycled and brand-new—all of which con-tribute to a beautiful, functional, sustainable environment.

Throughout the home, designer Susie Hoffmann balancedpricier elements with affordable solutions. In the kitchen, shecovered the countertops with CaesarStone floor tiles made ofrecycled glass and concrete—a budget- and eco-friendly choicethat just happens to be “a really cool-looking product,” she says.In the dining area, $30 antique chairs balance the cost ofArtemide lamps that were a worth-every-penny splurge.

The Harmans’ living room balances big and small, hard and

soft. Hoffmann made the wide-open space more intimate by di-viding the room into separate seating areas and dropping thependant lamps lower to create a more human scale. Area rugsand upholstery made of organic fabric and post-consumer recy-cled content soften the room’s hard angles and concrete floors.

The building itself demonstrates the yin and yang of an oldstructure gone green. Along with its LEED for Homes Platinumrating, “We are working to get [the building] registered on theNational Registry of Historic Places,” says architect RandyHafer. “You can count on one hand the number of buildings thathave been able to achieve both.”

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Also, thanks to low-flow faucets and showerheads, and two 2,000-gallon rainwater-collection tanks that sup-ply dual-flush toilets, the building uses one-third less water than its conventional counterpart would, Hafer says.

Hafer’s team harnessed the sun’s rays to help power, heat and light the building. They installed a 4-kilowattsolar energy system on the roof, solar tanks to warm water for the building’s laundry and heating, and angled sky-lights to maximize the building’s natural light and ventilation.

“It was really important to me that if we were doing a green building, that [focus on sustainability] would alsocome through to the furnishings,” Harman says, so rather than buying all new, mass-produced items, she and Hoff-mann scoured local antique stores for chairs and tables that could be reupholstered and refinished. The Har-mans’ unit features furniture built with materials salvaged from the building itself—a coffee table made out ofrepurposed wood, a side table hewn from an old beam. >>

LEFT: What once was the building’s meat cooler became the Harmans’master bedroom, a cozy “Zen den” with original wooden walls accentedby Osborne & Little metallic floral wallpaper and Noguchi lamps. The bedfrom Room & Board and clean-lined dresser enhance the room’s Asian sen-sibility. BELOW: The master bathroom features a Maax bathtub, a porce-lain Lacava sink, a low-flow Delta faucet and industrial lighting by Fabulux.

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THIS PAGE: The kitchen holds ENERGY STAR-rated ap-pliances, custom wheatboard cabinets by Dovetail De-signs, Emeco stools made out of 80-percent recycledaluminum, CaesarStone floor tiles repurposed for thecountertops and a feature wall coated with chalkboardpaint. OPPOSITE: The sunroom features wood flooringsalvaged from elsewhere in the building. “It’s an amazingperch,” Hoffmann says of the space, which offers viewsof downtown Billings and the rugged rimrocks beyond.

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When Joni and Steve Harman set out to renovate a 1916 indus-trial building into eco-friendly apartments, they were gunning for morethan gold-level greenness. “We decided that if we were going to doit, then we were going to try for Platinum” with the hope of inspiringother homeowners in their area to go green, Joni Harman says.

The Harmans’ home earned top honors, in part, because of itsefficient energy use, which is 45 percent lower than a compara-ble new building; its efficient use of rainwater, which accountsfor about 10 percent of the building’s yearly water use; and its lo-cation in a high-density community.

The renovation team also was careful to repurpose the Harmans’ rooms without losing their historic charac-ter. What once was the meat cooler became the master bedroom, a cozy “Zen den” with original wooden wallsaccented by metallic floral wallpaper and Noguchi lamps. “We just tried to be as true to the building as we couldbe, thinking, ‘OK, this was a cooler; what can we do to warm it up?’” designer Hoffmann says.

The Harmans love their historic home with its modern, eco-friendly face-lift. They love the convenience ofapartment-style living. They love the views from their roof deck of man-made beauty—bustling streets and cross-hatched train tracks—juxtaposed with Montana’s rugged rimrocks.

“My husband and I were at a point, when our last child graduated from high school, where we wanted to sim-plify ... and live out some of these values that we’d been thinking about,” Harman says. “We kind of live it andbreathe it as much as we can.” ●

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9 ALLEN-GUERRA DESIGN BUILD

83 ANTLERS AT VAIL

1 ARRIGONI WOOD FLOORING, INC.

42 ARROWHEAD RANCH REAL ESTATE

51 ASHLEY CAMPBELL

7 AZADI FINE RUGS

87 BEAVER RUN

10 BELGARD PAVERS

26 BERGLUND ARCHITECTS

41 BHH PARTNERS

28 BRASS BED OF DENVER

51 BRECK IRONWORKS

29 CARNEY ARCHITECTS

44 CEDAR MOUNTAIN

5 CHARLES CUNNIFFE ARCHITECTS

86 CHERRY CREEK ARTS FESTIVAL

48 CLIFF AND CANYON

16 CORDILLERA METRO DISTRICT

48 CRYSTAL GLASS STUDIO

40 D’AMORE INTERIORS

47 DAN JOSEPH ARCHITECTS

8 DIAMOND SPAS

44 DOOR HARDWARE USA

46 DRAGON FORGE

43 ELMIRA STOVE WORKS

14 FAZENDIN BROTHERS, INC.

15 GALLEGOS CORPORATION

2 GRAND PARK

20 GRAND TIMBER DOORS

82 HARMONY INTERIORS

43 HAYN ENTERPRISES

23 HIGH CAMP HOME

38 INSULSTAR

42 JACKSON HOLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

84 JULIA VANDENOEVER PHOTOGRAPHY

46 KARPOV DESIGN STUDIO

11 KELLY & STONE ARCHITECTS

32 KEVIN CLARK ORIGINALS

12 LEA SISSON ARCHITECT

54 THE LODGE & SPA AT CORDILLERA

82 LOEWS DENVER HOTEL

13 LYON DESIGN GROUP

24-25 MYERS & COMPANY

27 NANA WALL SYSTEMS

52-53 NAYTURA

85 THE PORCHES

19 PRECISION CONSTRUCTION WEST

40 RECLA METALS

37 REDLINGER PROPERTIES

84 THE RESIDENCE HOTEL ASPEN

33 RKD ARCHITECTS, INC.

21 RMR GROUP

IFC RMT ARCHITECTS

3 SANSIN

26 SLIFER DESIGNS

IBC SUN MOUNTAIN DOOR

39 TRESTLEWOOD

17 VENTANA INC.

BC VERTICAL ARTS

18 THE VICEROY SNOWMASS

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LOCATIONAspen, Colorado

LISTING PRICE$35 million

LISTING BROKERSMark Haldeman & Craig Morris, Morris & Fyrwald Sotheby’s Intl. Realty,

970-925-6060, www.aspenskihomes.com

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IRRESISTIBLE DETAILS Situated on more than two acres on the ridge of Aspen’s Red Mountain, this new mountain-contemporary estate is sustainably constructed, Built Green Colorado certified, and features a 96-percent efficient boiler, heat-recovery ventilators, and a photovoltaic solar system that supplies more than 30 percent of the home’s electricity. Designed byrenowned architecture firm Charles Cunniffe & Associates, the luxury compound includes a five-bedroom, 11,300-square-footmain residence filled with special touches: a gourmet kitchen with granite countertops, theater with eight-foot Dolby high-definition screen and surround-sound system, 1,600-bottle wine enclave, resistance pool, four fireplaces, and multiple decksand patios. A separate 4,178-square-foot guest house offers five bedrooms and a two-car garage. Both homes enjoy all-day sun-light and unobstructed views of Aspen Mountain, Independence Pass, the town of Aspen and the entire valley floor.

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