New Rubber Roof for Earth Sheltered Offices/Home Coming:
Roof-Top Exterior Kitchen and Roof-Top Garden!

View the full photo case study featuring Interstate Roofing and Firestone Building Products.

Learn more about the entire kitchen project at:  www.livinghealthykitchen.com

Check out the blog about our AGA Total Control Range– Jewel of the kitchen  (Directly under the roof-top garden–built by Affordable Green Dreams).

Lahmayer  & Associates proudly announces:

LIVING HEALTHY KITCHEN BLOG — A unique kitchen renovation project with step by step highlights (living healthy theme). 

CHECK OUT THE DETAILS at the website: www.livinghealthykitchen.com

View the Video Blogs here.

The Challenge: Fourteen Senior Designers from Western Technical College — located in La Crosse Wisconsin — innovated their vision of transforming an original kitchen in an earth–bermed home. Their task: Design an old–world theme balanced with modern culinary features.

Top winning designers will be featured in the upcoming posts.

• AGA Marvel–Selected as top luxury appliance brand for the winning design
• Other chosen vendors include Westwood Kitchens Custom Cabinetry, Neillsville, WI, Architectural Antiques – Minneapolis, MN, Vatland Custom Carpentry-Caledonia, MN and more.
• Flooring (Dining, Kitchen, bathroom, hallway): New Mediterranea brand porcelain glazed tiles (Sandlewood – Driftwood) were purchased from ReStore Habitat and will help fund a new furnace for a Habitat for Humanity house being built in Mauston, WI.
• Stay tuned for Video Blogs and more fun updates as the project progresses.

The recent Midwestern floods have been devastating for many of my neighbors in surrounding counties.  Our home was unaffected, since we live on higher ground—less than a mile away from the mighty Mississippi in Minnesota. Only minutes down the road, disaster areas have been declared in Southern Minnesota as well as many counties in Iowa and nearby Wisconsin.

As families in river towns struggle to save their communities, we must be aware of the potential long term effects from the losses of these vital farm communities – from economic losses to environmental destruction. There will likely be a resounding effect on our food supply, considering the flooded areas are in the “bread basket” of our country. The immediate concern has been for adequate fluids, food and shelter. Read the rest of this entry »