ReFrame Homes, inspired by green principles and good design

We’ve spent several years discussing the creation of a green subdivision here in Omaha—and I’ve been excited by all of your ideas. You’ve told me you want to create a sustainable neighborhood with environmentally responsible homes. You’ve said you want a beautiful place to live. You’ve expressed your values: people and nature above asphalt, concrete, and urban sprawl.

I agree.

I’m not interested in telling a group of people how to build their homes, or in building someone else’s lifestyle for them. What I am interested in is enabling others to create a community organically, a place that holds the wellbeing of its citizens as its first intention. We can create so much more than just a bunch of “green” houses clustered together. If it takes a village….we can make one.

This process is outlined at the livingneighborhoods.com website. The community grows itself. If you want to live there, you take part in the planning. If you build a home, you work on the design. You are the architect of your own life. I’m just here to help.

It’s time to get together and grow this dream into reality. I’m looking for extraordinary people who want to be a part of this—and I want you to be one of them. We are having an introductory meeting and presentation on Thursday, September 4^th at 7:00pm at the Westside Community Center, 108^th and Grover. Please let me know as soon as possible if you can come, and if you are planning on bringing anyone. I want to be certain to have a place for you.

Until then,

Jack Round

Reframe Homes

www.reframehomes.com

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Announcement: We have signed a contract to build a Rocio Romero LV Kit house on an infill lot near the Omaha Botanical Garden: www.rocioromero.com . Construction is expected to start in 1 month.

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Here's an article I wrote promoting "green" subdivisions in Omaha.

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A very interesting concept/methodology to design the Harris Residence .

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An excellent article about the column creation at our Quail Ridge house: A Set of Three Columns by Lars Erickson

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View of the Elkhorn River valley from the Quail Ridge house:

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The Quail Ridge house...a unique design with unique materials for a unique lot:

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Reframe idea: "High Lift" garage doors using new, side-mount operators...so you don't have to worry about your rear vehicle door hitting the garage door tracks.