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TEAM: Tim Walker (builder), Ruth Chancellor of Chancellor Designs (interior designers), Cindy Fous (realtor) and Richard White of Whitehouse Collections (plan designer)
Informally sophisticated or elegantly laid-back, however you define Northwest living, you’ll feel right at home the moment you step inside Koderra.. A large central Great Room on the main level is well-suited for family activity and socializing with friends. The home showcases “made in the Northwest” furnishings throughout. The home’s design brings the outdoors inside with lush landscaping in the backyard visible from every room on the main level.
- 4006 Sq. Ft.
- Organic garden
- Unique rain screen system helps prevent exterior moisture damage
- 90% of furnishings locally made
- Dramatic zebrawood flooring
Creative Quarters
Man Cave
Every guy needs a corner of the house he can call his own, and Koderra delivers with the Man Cave of his dreams. Features a poker table and patio entrance that leads to a 3-hole putting green.
For information about purchasing this house:
Cindy Fous
Premiere Property Group
503-670-9000
And the Winners Are...
Professional’s Choice Awards
Best Presentation of Home: Koderra, Dreambuilder Custom Homes
2011 Street of Dreams Magazine
Blue and Green Are Best Friends
The NW Natural Street of Dreams is a great place to learn about energy efficiency – and the role natural gas plays in energy efficiency.
High-efficiency At this year’s NW Natural Street of Dreams, all five showcase homes are designed with natural gas – and they all have received Earth Advantage Certification. On your home tour, you’ll see natural gas tankless water heaters, fireplace inserts, furnaces, ranges and dryers.
There’s even a natural gas pizza oven and the exciting new freewatt energy system.
Learn more about these great features on High Performance Sunday, August 21.
Reduce lost energy. Did you know that after natural gas travels from the wellhead to your furnace, you still get 92 percent of the energy originally in the gas? In contrast, after converting any fossil fuel into electricity to power a furnace you only get the benefit of32 percent of the fuel’s available energy. That’s how much is lost in the process of creating and transmitting electricity.
With almost half the state’s electricity generated from fossil fuels, direct use of natural gas can save a lot of energy.
Blue and green are friends. Even in the rainy Willamette Valley, homeowners are installing solar panels to pre-heat their water before it goes to their gas water heaters. They’re saving money on their utility bills – and reducing their carbon footprint.
And since we can only rely on wind power about 30 percent of the time, every major Northwest utility has plans to build natural gas electric generation – to firm up wind power and to replace polluting coal plants.
Use less, offset the rest. Although it’s the cleanest fossil fuel, it still emits carbon dioxide. That’s why we encourage you to use gas as efficiently as possible, then offset your emissions through NW Natural’s Smart Energy program. We’re investing in biogas development while helping dairy farmers control methane emissions.
Visit nwnatural.com to learn more about natural gas appliances and how well blue and green go together.
Posted 08/18/2011Seek and Find
Can you find these object inside Koderra?
Posted 08/15/2011Dry Up!
The NW Natural Street of Dreams homes stand out for their spacious rooms, elegant surfaces, unique kitchen features and spectacular landscaping.
But we invite you to think beyond the textures and the colors, beyond the fabulous kitchen appliances and the outdoor living areas – to the clothes dryer. For example, check out the Whirlpool natural gas dryer in the Arbor Custom Homes house in this year’s show.
Dryers aren’t the most glamorous appliances, but your choice can make a big difference to your clothes and your monthly utility bills. And as washers and dryers move out of the basement into living areas, you’ll want a dryer that fits your home as well as your dining room table does.
When you’re ready for a new dryer, consider running a gas line to the laundry room. Here are some advantages of a natural gas dryer.
- You can save money on energy costs. High-efficiency natural gas dryers dry your clothes quickly and for less money than electric models.
- Your clothes will love it. Gas dryers fluff and freshen washables with less wrinkling and shrinking. They also reduce static cling. For best results, look for features such as automatic shut-offs, sensor controls, de-wrinkling cycles and automatic cooling-down cycles.
- Gas dryers come in three sizes,so you can stash one in a pantry off your kitchen or buy one to match the capacity of extra large washing machines.
Over time, a natural gas dryer will more than pay for itself in fuel savings, fabric-friendly operation and trouble-free performance.
Posted 08/12/2011Show Time
Posted 08/08/2011
Cooking with a View
This year’s NW Natural Street of Dreams is defined by its connection to the outdoors. From its lovely natural setting to the lush landscaping, this show’s appeal draws as much on what’s beyond the homes’ walls as what lies inside.
So on precious, warm summer evenings, cooks and their families will want to take advantage of these unique outdoor living spaces. To jumpstart the flow of your creative cooking juices, NW Natural has arranged outdoor cooking demonstrations at each of the showcase homes.
Stop by to get new ideas and taste some of the Northwest’s finest cuisine prepared by local chefs on gas cooking and grilling equipment.
Demonstrations begin at 6:30 p.m. and run for approximately 60 minutes on each Wednesday of the show.
August 17 - Dreambuilder Custom Homes, featuring Monica Grinnell and Chloe Fennell of Eat Your Heart Out Catering on the Twin Eagles Grill
KOIN Local 6: DreamBuilder Custom Homes
Posted 07/30/2011
Progress Report: Late July
Decades of Dreams
More than 150 years ago, NW Natural started serving customers in the Portland area. At the time, the company called Portland Gas Light Co., illuminated the community’s stately homes– many of which still grace old Portland neighborhoods.
By the start of the 20th century, electric lights were replacing gas fixtures, and NW Natural moved on to other ways of bringing comfort and convenience to families. Gas ovens and water heaters were some of the first appliances to win over homeowners, followed by gas furnaces.
NW Natural’s earliest customers would feel right at home in the NW Natural Street of Dreams’ Homes – and be quite puzzled at the same time. They would feel comfortable in the warm, spacious settings. But they would be at a loss when asked to identify a tankless water heater or a high-efficiency furnace, let alone a high-def TV screen.
The Street of Dreams tells us a lot about our culture. Regardless of the era, we appreciate gracious settings, lovely landscaping and a connection to nature, as beautifully demonstrated by these homes. But today, we also know we need to tread lightly on that earth we value – as shown by the many sustainable and high-efficiency features in every house.
As always, NW Natural is proud to be the Title Sponsor of this event. We’re also proud to work with Portland’s finest homebuilders in demonstrating the next generation of earth-friendly appliances.
Posted 07/15/2011Dreambuilder Custom Homes Show Prep Video
Posted 07/15/2011
Progess Report: July
What is a Koderra?
You will love the “man cave” and your children will love the first Street of Dreams “kid’s cave” but we are willing to bet you might love the origin of the home name even more.
At first glance you might think Koderra is some sort of exotic animal exhibit at the Oregon Zoo that you visit before watching the elephants dance during a summer concert. Not so fast there my friend, after speaking with Tim Walker of DreamBuilder Custom Homes, you learn that he has son named Kody and a daughter named Sierra so he combined their names as the foundation for his family designed home.
Show-going hint #56: Look down at the floor and notice the amazing hardwood flooring. Now look up and notice the same flooring on the ceiling. That’s right, only at the Street of Dreams will you find floor on the ceiling.
Progress Report: June
Progress Report: May
Well it is the first week of May and we didn't get the siding on the house like we had hoped by the end of April, but it won't be long now. We did however finish the sheet rock inside the house.
Progress Report: April
Even though we started after all the other builders we are finally starting to catch up. By the end of the month we should be finished with siding the outside of the house and sheet rocking the inside.
