Solar House completion.

admin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:08:18 +0000

I cannot believe the competition is over. We held out in the end, and I am proud that the UT students finished in the top 10! I’ve attached some photos from the first dinner party.

Now there is talk of shipping the house down to South Africa to be in another solar competition, before it goes on tour! So exciting.

Seeing orange in a “green” house

admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:16:36 +0000

Photo via Living Light

I was thrilled this summer when students at the University of Tennessee chose Kim Henry Designs to create pillows, bedrolls, place mats, a bedspread and chair cushions for the UT Living Light house, a 750-square-foot home that runs on solar power alone. The house, created by the students, is set to compete in the Solar Decathlon 2011 in Washington, D.C. later this month.

According to today’s Knoxville News Sentinel, “UT students across 10 disciplines–architects, engineers, graphic designers and culinary students–spent two years designing, funding, building and marketing the solar-powered home. The biannual event is sponsored by the Department of Energy.”

I thoroughly enjoyed helping to decorate this house–with ORANGE accents, of course! (And also a few gray!) See if you can spot everything in the video below.

Living Light – Walkthrough from Living Light on Vimeo.

Good luck to the Living Light team as they compete!