Dwell Houses We Love – Vote For Your Favorite One!

Online voting for <a href="http://www.dwell.com/houses-we-love/">Dwell's Houses We Love</a> competition has just begun! They've narrowed the results down to 20 houses and are now asking readers to pick their favorites. We've selected our six favorite houses with sustainable and eco-friendly design features (in no particular order) - check 'em out and see if they're you're favorites too.

<h3><a>Thacher</a></h3> <p /> The Thacher home in Petaluma is a Pop-Up house, which was shipped flat-packed and then assembled on site. Built out of prefabricated SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels) and it features a protective house port over the home that shades it from the sun and allows for circulation.

<h3><a>Wolford/Keller</a></h3> <p /> This renovation of a 1947 Frank Robert (student of Frank Loyd Wright) home is located near the Sequoia National Park next to a waterfall. The owners wanted to stay true to the home's mid-century roots with their furnishings, but updated it with eco-friendly materials like bamboo, seagrass and slate flooring, and reed wallpaper.

<h3><a>Parlee/Hegland</a></h3> <p /> Although definitely on the larger side, the Parlee/Hegland home is built with a sensitivity to its environment, and features a passive design allowing for natural light to filter in through high staggered windows. The home is naturally ventilated through operable windows. Outside the home is landscaped with buffalo grass, live oaks, and terraces of indigenous plants.

<h3><a>Lazarus</a></h3> <p /> Located at the top of Mt. Washington in between downtown LA and Pasadena, this two-story, single family home is covered in deep red metal siding and is very energy efficient. Besides the eco-friendly materials inside, a photovoltaic system with 27 solar panels sits on the roof generating renewable energy for the home.

<h3><a href="http://www.dwell.com/houses-we-love/84411416.html" target="_blank">Hekma</a></h3> <p /> This solar passively designed home in Southern California utilizes the sun's heat to warm interior plaster and limestone walls, which radiate heat back during the night. The home was constructed with an earthquake resistant foundation and includes many eco-friendly materials.

<h3><a>Brevoort</a></h3> <p /> With a small footprint to protect the beautiful trees of the forests of Fidalgo Island in Washington, this steel beam home with a prefabricated roof sits lightly on the earth. Full of floor to ceiling windows for natural light, you basically feel outside even when you're inside.