Sustainable Home & Landscape Design

According to the National Building Museum, when you are building, renovating, or choosing interior finishes and materials for your home, consider some of the following actions and measures you can take to incorporate these principles for more healthy, efficient, and sustainable living.

Sustainable Homes

The Principles of Sustainable Design includes:
  1. Optimizing use of the sun
  2. Improving indoor air quality
  3. Using the land responsibly
  4. Creating high-performance and moisture-resistant houses
  5. Wisely using the Earth’s natural resources

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design

How can you tell the difference between houses that look environmentally friendly and ones that actually are? Home certifications can help. Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) is just one certification that helps all sectors of the home-building industry use some of the best methods of sustainable design and construction.

Recyclable Materials for your home

Many architects, builders and designers know that using salvaged materials for a new-home project is one of the most sustainable building practices available. Whether it's old brick, old slate and tile roofing, wood structures and siding, or windows and doors, saving these materials from our landfills lets us all live a little more lightly on the land.

Sustainable Landscape

Want to create a more earth-friendly garden? It's all about giving back to mother nature by using organic growing methods. Start with planting pollinators, ditching pesticide use, create rain gardens, convert lawns to native meadows, planting low-water gardens and utilizing other practices can result in beautiful gardens with environmental benefits.
Drought Tolerant Plants
Rainwater Harvesting & Stormwater Management
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