Hemp Energy Retrofit
This 1950s home needed some upgrades for both performance and durability. The homeowners decided to use the most natural and healthy materials possible, to craft a home they can feel great about living and raising their kids in. Living Craft offered our expertise to oversee an exterior envelope remodel that started with of removing the …
Modest Marshall
This Marshall fire rebuild home was designed by Shape Architecture, using principles from the Passive House and Pretty Good House movement. As an Energy Star Certified and All Electric home, it had to meet stringent requirements with insulation and air sealing, and mechanical system efficiency. Significant intention was taken with the layout and lot siting …
Sunflower Sanctuary
We built this all-electric passive house for a family who lost their home in the Marshall Fire in Louisville, CO. Designed by Shape Architecture, the home incorporates active and passive solar, locally manufactured Alpen triple-pane windows, southern views, an airtight envelope, 12” double stud walls filled with carbon sequestering cellulose, hemp, and sheep wool insulation, …
Dearborn House Remodel
This deep energy retrofit started with gutting a 1960s house to add new wall and attic insulation and air sealing for maximized energy performance. We eliminated the natural gas line and transitioned to all electric heating and cooling and equipment and ERV, powered by rooftop solar panels. Other details include a new EPA certified fireplace …
Berthoud Studio
A new build of a detached studio/work space with its own kitchen and bathroom. This structure was oriented to the sun for passive heating in the winter, air sealed with smart vapor open membranes, insulated with Havelock sheep's wool, and includes an ERV for increased indoor air quality. We built with our clients' chemical sensitivities …
Sanctuary Remodel
This hyper-healthy home remodel features an air-sealed envelope with a whole house ERV for continuous ventilation. We also used natural clay plasters on all walls and ceilings, and sustainable cork flooring. With 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, an office, and a fully featured basement bar, as well as two basement living areas, this new space allows …
Sloan’s Lake Plasters
This ingenious home incorporates many natural and beautiful materials into the structure, as well as the finishes. Our lime plasters, both interior and exterior, complement reclaimed wood, custom metal, and polished concrete floors. Durisol blocks in the ground level also help capture and sequester carbon.
Healthy Basement Finish
We built out an unfinished basement using natural materials and systems that promote healthy indoor air quality and energy efficiency. Clay and lime plasters, a tadelakt shower, beetle-kill pine trim, barn door office partition, LED lighting, polished concrete floors and new fireplace and boiler round out the space. Read about our process in the Case …
Hemp-clay Mountain Timber Frame
This beautiful timber frame home at the edge of the mountains has a fun twist: a hemp-clay infill between the timbers of the exterior walls. We installed a 4" layer of hemp to the inside of the walls, using a clay binder instead of lime to keep embodied energy down. We then plastered over those …
Urban Strawbale Addition
This straw bale addition features very high performing straw bale insulation with lath and slip straw above the windows. Warm interior clay wall plasters and smooth tadelakt windowsills give it a modern but cozy feel. Lime-washed tongue-and-groove beetle killed pine ceilings on the vaulted ceiling open up the space. Read the case study about our …
Hilltop Bathroom Remodel
We fully renovated the bathroom of a 1930s Denver home, after taking it down to the original wooden lath. We started fresh on the walls with a vapor permeable and historically appropriate lime plaster system. Added custom cabinets, new tile, and modern fixtures. The custom sink basin and shower wall are crafted using Moroccan tadelakt …
Martin Acres Plasters
This house has been through a huge facelift over the years. We topped off the homeowner-led renovations with plasters, both inside and out. A single coat lime plaster wraps the brick exterior and greenhouse addition, with an iron oxide fresco finish. Inside, a few shades of lime plaster brighten the open floor plan and cozy …