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• Eco-friendly home grows from fire's ashes in St. Petersburg
• 4/6/2010

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  Less than a year after a fire destroyed their St. Petersburg house, state Rep. Rick Kriseman and his wife, Kerry, moved into their rebuilt home on Third Avenue N. As they made plans to rebuild, the Krisemans decided to make the new house as eco-friendly as possible, incorporating special insulation, dual-flush toilets and bamboo floors.

  ST. PETERSBURG There is much to admire about the new house on Third Avenue N: the open, inviting floor plan, the made-for-entertaining kitchen, the double water views (lake out front, pool out back). • But none of these features come up when state Rep. Rick Kriseman talks about his new home. "I've never been excited about an attic before," he says, "but this . . ." • And he's off, leading his visitors to a nearby hallway. He pulls down the attic stairs and stands back triumphantly. • It's quickly apparent what the excitement is about. No heat emanates from the space above despite a July morning well on its way to sweltering. In fact, the temperature in the attic very nearly matches that inside the living room. • The cool attic is one of several "green" concepts Kriseman and his wife, Kerry, incorporated into the home they built in the wake of a devastating fire in June 2008. • "We saw it as an opportunity," says Kriseman, the ranking Democrat on the state House Committee on Energy. "If you're going to (build an eco-friendly home), it's easier to do from scratch."  more...

   

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