Dwell Homes Collection Open House
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
6:30-8:30 PM
Seattle Cedar Homes Model Home
4302 S. 104th Pl.
Seattle, WA 98178
If you are located in the Seattle area, and are interested in the plans designed by Joel Turkel for the Dwell Homes Collection, you are welcome to attend our open house at the Seattle Cedar Model Home on July 15th at 6:30 PM.
Joel Turkel will be presenting his plans and design process, showcasing several homes that are in the planning phase right now. Also, Sam Grawe, Editor in Chief of DWELL magazine, will talk about the advantages of modern prefab design in terms of design, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability, and how Lindal is a natural fit within the Dwell Homes Collection of sustainable and standardized modern prefab homes.
Light refreshments will be served, so your RSVP is appreciated. You can call us at 800 508-1833, or email blog (at) lindal (dot) com (replace the at’s and dot’s with their appropriate symbols), and let us know your names, number of attendees, and your building time frame/where you plan to build.
The designer, Joel Turkel, will be presenting the home plans (including the one pictured above) selected by DWELL magazine for the Dwell Home Collection.
Breaking news! Seattle homeowner Wendy Jans has certified her new custom Lindal home under the National Association of Homebuilders’ National Green Building Standard.
Working with her dealer, Tom Schuch of Seattle Cedar Homes, and a verifier from Green Dog Enterprises, her home was able to earn certification from the NAHB, as well as by the government-backed ENERGY STAR® Homes program and by Built Green®, a non-profit program of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties. Professional salvager Olympia Salvage partnered with expert green builders of MC Construction to deconstruct her old home and recycle or re-use all of the material in her new custom Lindal home.
Last weekend’s Dwell show was a huge success, with over 12,000 attendees over the course of 3 days. Our booth was near the back in the CB2 Outdoor Café, which was where all of the “outdoor” products were gathered: sheds, patio furniture, houses, landscaping, even barbeques. Across from our booth was a gleaming Airstream trailer, which I think would match nicely with the steel accents siding on the Lindal TD3 2100 plan!
The TD3 2100 - Can you see this with the matching Airstream out front?
The response to Lindal’s Turkel plans was overwhelmingly positive. We had over 700 people pick up an invitation to the next live webinars by Joel Turkel this summer, and several people met at length with our dealers at the booth. Speaking of which… a big thank you to area dealers Gary Myers of Santa Barbara Cedar Homes, Frank Vingiano of San Diego Custom Homes, and Dennis Sanford of Rainbow Valley Cedar Homes for taking three long days away from their offices and staffing the booth! I think they’ll agree that the response was overwhelmingly positive!
After a 4am wakeup call and plane ride to LA, I met several area Lindal dealers, company president Michael Harris, chairman Robert Lindal (my dad), and west coast area manager Kaveh Khatibloo at the Figueroa hotel for a SoCal Regional Meeting before heading over to the convention center to set up for the DODLA09 show.
These regional meetings are always productive, and I really enjoy being able to talk to our dealers face to face at these twice yearly events… they give us great insight on the local home building climate, which helps us in Seattle stay current on what people want in a Lindal home in different areas of the country (and around the world). I think the biggest accomplishment today was “nailing” down the California Fire Specification for Lindal home packages, and how we can spread the word that we have a system in place to help people rebuild after losing their homes to wildfire. (If you would like to know more about the fire spec building system that conforms to building code requirements in fire-prone areas such as southern California, leave a comment on this post and I’ll put you in touch with a local Lindal dealer who can help you get started.)
Pre-convention Impressions
Walking in to the Los Angeles Convention Center this evening was like walking into the pages of dwell magazine! Our booth is in the Dwell Outdoor section, surrounded by Wolf barbecue “ranges,” patio furniture that brings to mind Bucky Tubes (I’ll snag a photo tomorrow), and modern sheds – with butterfly roofs above corrugated metal siding and clerestory windows, a far cry from the big-box-store aluminum sheds stuck in the corners of suburban backyards around the country!
Right next door to us is Marmol Radziner Prefab, who is also featured in this year’s Dwell Homes Collection. As I entered the building I said a brief “hello” to Michela O’Connor Abrams, the publisher of dwell… now there’s one busy person this week! (She spoke at our Annual Dealer Meeting last January to help us kick off Lindal’s “warm, modern” home plans by Turkel Designs.)
I’ll post what’s noteworthy later this weekend, as well as photos of our booth, once everything is set up completely. My impression this evening was punctuated by little electric forklifts buzzing around, and I’m sure there will be folks continuing their elaborate setups until the wee hours!
I will also be posting LOTS of photos from the show on the Lindal Cedar Homes Flickr PhotoStream. This promises to be an exciting weekend, so make sure you’ve subscribed to updates using one of the tools on the top right corner of this blog!
On a completely unrelated note, after today’s news about Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett I’m wondering what sort of impromptu gatherings might occur here in LA this weekend, as our convention is being held right next door to the Grammy Museum at Staples Center.
Over the past several months, there has been a huge amount of interest in the new, modern home designs created for Lindal Cedar Homes by Turkel Designs. After our ad in dwell magazine, where we announced the new TD3 series home plans and their inclusion in the 2009 Dwell Homes Collection, it became apparent that we had touched a nerve in the “warm, modern” home designs category, and the inquiries have been flooding in.
At home in the modern world: TD3 2400 by Turkel Designs for Lindal Cedar Homes and inclusion in the Dwell Homes Collection
What does this have to do with Dwell on Design ’09? Well, it is the official launch of this year’s Dwell Homes Collection, and Lindal Cedar Homes is going to be there! Together with Marmol Radziner Prefab, Lindal is honored to be chosen for this elite collection of modern home designs, with exposure to a devoted following of modern-design-loving dwell magazine readers.
Dwell on Design ’09 LA:
Modern Design Convention Details
Date: June 26-28, 2009 Location: Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown LA
More details and online registration at www.dwellondesign.com
I will be attending the show, and plan to update this blog regularly with each day’s happenings. Stay tuned! Or better yet, subscribe for updates by email or RSS feed using the tool in the top right corner of every page of this blog…
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Filed under Events,Green Building,Modern Resources by Trina Lindal on July 10, 2009