The New England Colonial 05-006

This floor plan mixes a formal dining and living room with a modern open great space that covers the kitchen and family room. There are also nice unique features like the kitchen dining nook and built in desk\office, wet bar connection room between the kitchen and the dining room, and a nice mud room and office space to reduce clutter.

This floor plan is anchored by a wonderful master suite, master bath, and office space\sitting room. It also has the connivance of an upstairs laundry room, and 3 bedrooms for children or guests.

This was FreeGreen's initial rendering of this Showcase House Plan

Front picture of the finished home on a nice New England winter day.

A three dimensional wall corner section showing some of the building materials used in the FreeGreen Showcase Home.

The Showcase Home's entry way, with living room in sight.

A gorgeous traditional living room.

This is a view of the kitchen space looking from the dining nook, with the wet bar and mudroom in the distance. This kitchen features two sinks, a wonderful suite of appliances, a central island counter, and efficient LED recessed lighting. This kitchen was designed by Kitchen Views who you can find in the listed retailers for this plan.

This is an initial rendering of the showcase home’s kitchen created by the FreeGreen team.

This is a picture of the completed kitchen, which shows the level of detail in the initial FreeGreen rendering and how this rendering was able to help the owner of this home and their contractor visualize this space for construction. This kitchen was designed by Kitchen Views who you can find in the listed retailers for this plan.

This is the connection wet bar space which turned a simple hallway between the kitchen and dining room into an interesting and fun drink preparation space.

This functional mudroom features warming radiant floor for those cold winter mornings. This radiant system also helps keep the floor dry and avoid moisture damage.

This is a view at the top of the stairs at the second floor with a view into the secondary (kids) bathroom.

A view into the secondary (kids) bathroom with its classic floor tiling, and simple but elegant fixtures and finishes.

Entering the Master Bathroom you can see the clean cabinets and fixtures, unique and stylish wall tiling, and one-of-a-kind stand alone tub.

A straight on view of the Master Bathroom tub shows how this fixture is a true center piece of this space. The amber tone wall tiling in the back creates the perfect back drop for the showpiece tub, and a window above provide ample light to the space.

Turning the corner in the Master Bathroom one sees the open shower which features both a hand spray and fixed shower head. The tiling back drop is continued into this shower space which also features a light tube that brings in an amazing amount of light and reduces the need for electric bathroom lighting.

Entering the Master Bedroom one can see its spacious nature and ample natural light using proper window placement, and skylights.

This is a focused shot to show the simple but powerful lighting controls system in this home. Please use FreeGreen’s Virtual Tour to learn more about this lighting control system and its benefits and features.

A schematic diagram of the closed loop Geothermal system installed on this showcase home. In the field this system consists of two 570 vertical wells and reduces the HVAC load by a significant amount. This system helped this home achieve a HERS score of 45 which means that this FreeGreen Showcase home uses 55% less energy than a code built home.

This is the predicted energy usage for the FreeGreen Showcase home if it were located in California. This home was built in Needham, MA and achieved a HERS score of 45 which means that this FreeGreen Showcase home uses 55% less energy than a code built home.