Comfortable Country Living Year Round

Living-off the grid may sound like roughing it. But you’ll be as comfortable in your earth-friendly-home in Granville as you would be in any modern home—perhaps even more so.



The round design maximizes passive solar gain in cold times, and minimizes exterior wall area exposed to heat loss. This is a super-insulated and super-energy efficient green home!

Both buildings boast foot-thick straw-clay walls coated in natural plaster painted in earth tones. Homes built in this style have stood for 500 years in England and Germany.

Both buildings are also designed for optimal passive solar gain, with south-facing Andersen windows to maximize heat retention in winter, while the surrounding forest fills in with foliage to provide natural cooling in summer.



Because the walls are all-natural, and breathe, this is also the ideal healthy home for anyone with chemical sensitivities, and is especially healthy for children. Since this green home uses no toxic paints or finishes, this is one of the healthiest homes you’ll ever live in.

Seven solar panels provide plenty of energy for lights, well pump, computers, satellite dish and more. You can add to the solar array, or if you like, consider bringing grid power to the property.



A small inconspicuous exterior satellite dish provides high-speed satellite internet to both the main house and studio cottage. A landline also connects to the main house.

A drilled well supplies clean, refreshing and plentiful mountain water. The home’s three-bedroom septic is expandable to a four-bedroom system.

As a highly efficient earth-friendly home this one is hard to beat!