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New Leaf Home Design

Home additions and right sized new homes designed to care for the health of your family & the planet.

Hallie Bowie

Hallie has been designing homes since 1987, with projects ranging from additions and renovations to whole house design. Hallie is a registered architect in the state of Ohio, License #9767. That means that her college education included extensive training in design, construction systems and materials, structural design, and building codes; followed by three years of internship in arc

hitectural offices; and passing a rigorous two-day license exam in 1991. To maintain her license, Hallie completes a minimum of 12 hours of continuing education courses per year in subjects like Universal Design, Aging in Place, and Sustainability. She is a Certified Green Professional through the National Association of Home Builders, as well as a LEED Green Associate. She brings all of this knowledge to the design of your home. Hallie began working from home just before the birth of her two children in 1994, so the relationship between family life and home design has been very clear for her! Having a place for backpacks, visual connection between the Kitchen and living areas, sufficient closet space, and other home design issues are always just a few steps away. When Hallie isn’t designing homes, she enjoys singing folk and pop songs with her husband Scott, and spending time outdoors hiking, running, and gardening.

03/31/2025

Smart Sustainability is still a "thing", and well worth looking into for your family home. It's been years since my family made the switch to more efficient options. Here's my story...

Smart sustainability isn’t one size fits all. It wouldn’t be smart if it were. Each situation, each house, and each family are different. And each budget. So how do you decide what are the smart sustainable decisions for you? It’s a process. I recently went through this process for our family....

10/02/2024

CLEAN ENERGY AT HOME: The future will be awesome!

The new approach to having a healthy, comfortable home and money saving strategies YOU can use. Hear architect and LEED Green Associate Hallie Bowie of New Leaf Home Design LLC talk about moving to clean energy and how the Inflation Reduction Act can help. Thursday, October 3 at 6:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on 3186 Burbank Road, Wooster; sponsored by the Wooster Interfaith Justice Climate Change Committee Group and the Wayne County Sustainable Energy Network. The Inflation Reduction Act will make it more affordable for Ohio families to purchase energy efficient appliances, make repairs around their home and save money on their utility bills. This is an opportunity to learn how it can benefit you and your family.

08/29/2024

Be part of the solution! Reduce your personal climate impact at home. I can help you make a plan.

08/19/2024

More and more homeowners are having solar panels installed in their homes. This is a good start, but what else can be done to achieve better sustainable solutions for your house? Read this article to see small things you can do to encourage home sustainability.

Wondering what you can do to minimize your carbon footprint at your home? Solar panels are great, but they aren’t a good fit for everyone. If your house is in a shaded area, or your shingles are older but not quite ready for replacement, solar electric may not be practical for your house right now...

06/07/2024

Heat Pumps have a new cool groove!

Provided to YouTube by CDBaby [I'm Your] Heat Pump (feat. Will Hammond Jr) · Michael T Roberts · Will Hammond Jr (I'm Your) Heat Pump (feat. Will Hammond J...

05/30/2024

Attending my first Electric Coach class from Rewiring America tonight! Excited to get even better at helping people electrify their homes!

03/25/2024

Excellent writing about home electrification!

by Sophie Vaughan Hallie Bowie’s Home with Solar Panels Photo courtesy of Hallie Bowie Sustainable living means different things to different people. For some, it’s as simple as recycling and compo…

03/14/2024

Learn what remodeling projects maintain a premium to homebuyers when times are tough.

03/12/2024

I'm happy to have helped develop Hudson's Green Home Certification Program to build awareness of the value of energy efficiency upgrades!

Hudson is the first city in Ohio to offer residents a chance to become certified through other entities as implementing energy efficiencies.

01/15/2024

What do you see? A friend posted this because he liked how cozy the house looks in the winter landscape. I agree, but I also see more: The house is well insulated because the snow of the roof is uniform, and there aren't any icicles. The windows aren't too big, so most of the wall can have lots of insulation too. But I am hoping there are more windows on the other side to take advantage of that view. Then I wonder whether the view is equally good to our right side, which would be south (assuming this is sunrise). If so, and the shape of the lot permitted, it might have been better to turn the house 90 degrees, so there would be a nice south facing roof surface for solar panels. The existing trees are to the north, so they wouldn't shade the panels. Also, then most of those imagined big windows for the view would face south so they could soak up the sun's heat in the winter, and the natural overhang of the roof would shade them from overheating in the summer. The eaves could be deeper, which would be better for that shading and would also protect the foundation from rain a little better. Then I wonder about whether there is a basement. Slab on grade construction is great for minimizing the carbon footprint of the house, since concrete has such high embodied energy, but with that slope, it might also be really nice to have a walk-out basement. That way you would get more good quality living space. That's what I see.

12/13/2023

Want to save money AND reduce your fossil fuel use? Have an air conditioner that is ready for replacement? I just watched a webinar about a study in northern Illinois on using a variable speed, coil only air source heat pump instead of just an air conditioner, and the results are really impressive! Let me know if you'd like more information!

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1867 Brookshire Road
Akron, OH
44313

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm

Telephone

+13303296901

Website

http://www.newleafhomedesign.com/

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New Leaf Home Design, LLC- Hallie M. Bowie, architect I work only on homes, with an emphasis on additions and renovations as well as high-performance new homes that meet the Zero Energy Ready standard or better. I’ve been designing homes since 1987, if you don’t count the dollhouse designs I started at about age 10! I’m a registered architect in the state of Ohio, License #9767. That means that my college education included extensive training in design, construction systems and materials, structural design, and building codes; followed by three years of internship in architectural offices; and passing a rigorous two-day license exam in 1991. To maintain her license, I completes a minimum of 12 hours of continuing education courses per year in subjects like Universal Design, Aging in Place, and Sustainability. I am a Certified Green Professional through the National Association of Home Builders, as well as a LEED Green Associate. I brings all of this knowledge to the design of your home. I began working from home just before the birth of my two children in 1994, so the relationship between family life and home design has been very clear for me! Having a place for backpacks, visual connection between the Kitchen and living areas, sufficient closet space, and other home design issues are always just a few steps away. When I’m not designing homes, Ie enjoys singing folk and pop songs with her husband Scott, and spending time outdoors hiking, running, and gardening.