3 Rules for Kitchen Make Up Air Systems: Planning Home Ventilation that Performs

The 3 rules are: don't blow make up air on people, don't blow it on surfaces, and keep the circuit short.

See our own full kitchen exhaust and make up system at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMkvCn1sGvk

See a demo of the calculators for sizing and selecting make up air at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSmwDGxtlHU

Tips for High Performance Home Floorplan: Designing Out Condensation, Odors, Discomfort, and Hassle

There are so many simple tricks you can incorporate into a home's layout that will improve performance, including closet orientations, bathtub and toilet locations, mechanical shafts, room arrangements, and useful buffer spaces.

Elegant HVAC Duct Design: the Rooms are Ducts, Too

Ductwork is more than just supplies and returns- the entire home enclosure is actually part of the ductwork. Here’s a quick demonstration of how to use room arrangements to direct airflow. From Season 2 episode 9 of 'Home Diagnosis' on PBS.

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Permaculture Plan: Surveying/Analyzing & Landscape Design for our Forever Home's Dream Garden

Now that our home is built and we're happily living in it, we're ready for the much bigger job of setting up a legacy garden and self-maintaining landscape around it. Permaculture is the design science of tuning the ecology around us, and Brandy Hall and Rebecca Baxter from Shades of Green (https://ShadesOfGreenPermaculture.com) are experts in this. Hear from them how our property might be re-tuned to transform it into a garden that requires minimal maintenance. More on this home and property at: https://HomeDiagnosis.tv/atlanta-homestead About Shades of Green Shades of Green is a regenerative landscape design, build and education firm located in Atlanta, GA. For over 10 years, Shades of Green has designed and installed regenerative outdoor spaces for commercial, residential and municipal clients that contribute to protecting biodiversity, growing food, medicine, and pollinator habitat, building soil, and restoring the water cycle. Founded by Managing Director Brandy Hall, Shades of Green is a Woman-Owned, Certified B Corporation and member of the Sustainable Sites Initiative. Find out more and become a part of the Shades of Green community at shadesofgreenpermaculture.com and on Instagram.

Tour of our Kichler LED Lighting System Layers

Our #ForeverHome is not just a marvel of scientific control, it's also stunningly beautiful thanks in large part to our design help from Kichler's Jeff Dross. Get the full tour of all the layers of lighting (ambient, task, and accent) as Grace and Corbett Lunsford go deep on details of designing, wiring, and customizing a high performance home lighting system.

See the 'how to design' video interview at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdFtY5udLKA

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Lighting Design 101: Lumens, Footcandles, Colors, etc with Kichler's Jeff Dross

Jeff Dross is the Director of Education and Industry Trends for Kichler Lighting, and he's been lighting homes for 45 of that company's 82 years. A lot's changed in lighting, but here are some universal basics, along with the latest innovations to consider when planning the lighting system for any house, addition, or room.

See our favorites among the thousands of lighting options we're swimming through HERE

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