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- Forbo countertops are made of natural linoleum, radiant heating sits under the concrete floors, and all the landscaping was done with low-water and native plants.
  
  travesti 07/06/2009
- C'mon, $91 sq. ft. sounds great, but how many square feet is this house. Give the rest of us some actual concrete insight to what the heck is going on here. Every house review/spotlight should have a standard table of sq. footage, cost, materials, savings, expenses, # of rooms, etc. How can I build a $91 square foot house? Does that include any plumbing? Specifics are pretty important if you want this movement to move and your mag to sell.
  
  Charles Foley 07/08/2009
- Where insulation was needed around window and door frames, instead of using the usual pink fiberglass they employed a cotton insulation, a denim industry by-product made up of trimmings that Vigil describes as having a texture “just like a Q-tip.
  
  medyum 09/17/2009
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