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TEAM: David Hall (builder), Ruth Chancellor Chancellor Designs and Melanie Sessions of Melanie Sessions Interiors (interior designers)
Inspired by the Prairie style, Cascade Splendor blends beautifully into its natural setting creating a home that offers a lot of living, and a lot of warmth. The spacious interior features large light-filled rooms and organic design elements for a feeling that’s both expansive and comfortable. Unique to the show is one of Oregon’s first freewatt generator systems — a cutting edge technology that relies less on electricity from power plants and allows homeowners to sell excess energy — offering a greener, cost-saving option to powering a home.
- 5,130 Sq. Ft.
- Amazing 12’x6’ skylight in kitchen nook
- A trio of large indoor planter boxes fills the main level with greenery
- Outdoor living area with fireplace
- Master suite features 16 foot long “walk-through” shower
Designated as this year’s NW Natural Street of Dreams Charity Home, the builder will donate $10,000 of his proceeds to the Amy Roloff Charity Foundation.
Creative Quarters
Home Theater Hideaway
Here’s the perfect place to gather for movie nights, sports events and video games. All the action happens on a huge 92-inch screen, the largest featured in this year’s show. The space also includes a mini-kitchen and full bath so it’s great for sleepovers or guests.
For more information about homes from this builder:
Patti Hall
Meadows Group Realtors
503-590-1500
And the Winners Are...
Realtor’s Choice Awards
Best of Show: Cascade Splendor, Steel Creek Homes
Best Architectural Design: Cascade Splendor, Steel Creek Homes
Best Master Suite (tie): Chateau Marseille, Arbor Custom Homes, and Cascade Splendor, Steel Creek Homes
Professional’s Choice Awards
Best Architectural Design: Cascade Splendor, Steel Creek Homes
People’s Choice Awards
Best of Show: Cascade Splendor, Steel Creek Homes
Best Interior Design: Cascade Splendor, Steel Creek Homes
Best Kitchen: Cascade Splendor, Steel Creek Homes
Best Master Suite: Cascade Splendor, Steel Creek 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 objects inside Cascade Splendor?
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 24 - Steel Creek Homes, featuring the flattop Evo Grill, Chef TBA
KOIN Local 6: Steel Creek 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.
And imagine what they would make of the two freewatt® systems found in the Steelcreek Home in today’s Street of Dreams.
The freewatt® uses natural gas to generate electricity – and supplements a gas furnace, using the fuel twice. The unit produces 1,200 watts of electricity, and captures waste heat from the generating process, which is piped to the furnace. The freewatt® works with a 95 percent efficient gas furnace meeting Energy Star guidelines.
And you can use a freewatt® for back up electric generation in the event of a power outage.
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 07/15/2011Steel Creek Show Prep Video
Posted 07/15/2011
Progess Report: July
The Dean of Street of Dreams Designers Returns
As a design fan you can instantly feel the Frank Lloyd Wright inspiration within the prairie style Cascade Splendor. As a NW Natural Street of Dreams fan, you know you are being inspired but yet another Mike Barkley designed home. The dean of Street of Dream designers has returned for his 37th awe-inspiring dream home.
Once completed you will see how the outside environment is brought inside and high ceilings and ceiling-to-floor windows connect you to the gorgeous NW settings within the Brentwood Estates community. Of course as with any Street of Dreams home, be prepared for some surprises including a shower nicknamed the “car wash,” inside planters that fit a couple full sized adults and one of Portland’s first “Freewatt” generator systems.
Show-going hint #45: Skip the kitchen, take a glimpse at those planter boxes and then run your 8 year old through the car wash shower. A perfect way to get those kids clean during the summer break.
Progress Report: June
Progress Report: May
We've got some good news to share... Our house sold! Now we have to work even more diligently to get done on time so that as soon as the NW Natural Street of Dreams is over the new homeowners can move right in without any delay.
Progress Report: April
Can you see the Frank Lloyd Wright "Prairie Style" house beginning to form? Prairie style homes are often characterized by low-pitched roofs, horizontal lines and
open interior spaces.
Progress Report: February
We are moving right along. The foundation has been poured and we have begun framing the house. You can just barely see it in this picture, but on a cloudless day there are views of snow covered peaks in the distance.
