As Our Parents Age

The VMRC Green Houses at Woodland Park are beginning to look like real houses with roofs, windows, and doors. Now much of the construction has moved indoors. This time when I visited, Mr. Marvin Nisely, who supervises the construction at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community, took me on an inside tour of one of the homes.

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• The top left picture shows the terrace, shot from just outside the sunroom door.
• The top right picture looks out at the common area from one of the bedrooms.
• The bottom left picture was shot as I stood in the middle of the common area and looked up at the attic.
• The bottom right shows two construction workers installing drywall in one of the bedrooms.

To learn more please read these posts about Woodland Park Green House Homes, a new community at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community: Woodland Park Green Houses Have Roofs, June 3, 2012,  Woodland Park Green House Walls are Rising – April 28, 2012, Green House Homes at Woodland Park (VMRC) Construction Update, April 8, 2012, VMRC Construction Update: On Foundations Firmly Laid – April 3, 2012, All About the VMRC Woodland Park Groundbreaking – January 5, 2012, Green Houses for Older Elders, Replacing a Nursing Community with Green House® Homes, Nuts and Bolts of Green House Planning, Building a Green House Home – The Inside, To learn even more about Green House® Homes go to the web site and request the DVD and/or guide-book., To locate a community that features the Green House Project model, check out  this handy map.