Colonial Green
If you’ve ever visited San Mateo, you probably haven’t noticed that in a quaint neo-colonial home, on a quiet, suburban street called Harvard Road, there’s a mini-Green revolution going on.
Thanks to a progressively minded family from the East Coast, architects Mark Tetrault and Marc Lindsell, of San Francisco-based 2M Architecture recently had the opportunity to give a cutting-edge, sustainable facelift to a not-so-energy-efficient traditional home.
“The clients approached us about two years ago because their family had outgrown their house—their kids needed to have their own bedroom,” says the UC Berkeley and Harvard-trained Tetrault, who has been a business partner with Lindsell at 2M Architecture for more than three years. ...more
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