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Green home designs use eco-friendly reusable materials, furnishings and leftovers. These kind of designs feature the use of long lasting, non-toxic materials as well as recycling. Green home designs make use of materials that are renewable and long lasting. To remodel a residence with new materials every few years is not green building design.

When you use materials to be green, you restore and salvage what you have when possible. Options for green flooring design can provide you many different choices today. You can sand and refinish or even paint and stencil without using materials containing volatile organic compounds (referred to as VOC’s).

Green home designs today features the use of materials such as cork, bamboo and eucalyptus since they are earth friendly and renewable. Cork is especially good since there is no destruction of trees during extraction of the cork. Hardwood flooring can last forever and is very desirable, however, these kinds of woods are often the remnants of old growth from rain forest trees and this is not eco-friendly or green. You can select types of woods that have the approval and certification by environmental groups.

Which glues and finishes to use for floor installation are issues that should concern you since many contain toxic synthetic formaldehyde resins. It is best to use non-toxic low to no VOC sealants as well as non-toxic cleaners, polishes, finishes, refinishing and adhesive products. To do so will result in having better indoor air quality since your home produces less toxins and is a healthier environment to live in.

Even buying low to no VOC products does not guarantee your safety and good health for you and your loved ones. Since we encounter so many chemicals on a daily basis, nothing can be 100%. However, it is essential to select eco-friendly products for the green design benefits. This helps to better our environment and not expose us to as many chemicals every day.

While creating your green home designs using these ideas, be sure to include many glass window and doors as well as roof and wall skylights to allow natural lighting into your home. Skylights provide the green design benefits of reducing and avoiding moisture accumulation in a room while conserving energy consumption.

Concrete floorings have made the circle of fashion, coming back in style. They come in various colors, patterns, textures and polishes. This type of flooring is not so harmful to your health since it uses no glue, finishes or refinishing products and their chemicals.

Green home designs in the kitchen can feature the use of concrete counter tops since they are a natural appearing material and have become quite popular. They can add a modern look and style to your kitchen, bathrooms and fireplace.

Vertrazzo, which is recycled glass, is another popular choice for green kitchen counter tops. Recycled glass is attractive and comes in various colors to match your decor perfectly. You can use it as both kitchen counter tops and as a backsplash. Recycled glass tiles are another beautiful alternative in trends of green kitchen designs.

While choosing your appliances, consider their functionality, style and energy efficiency as well as your budget. When you replace appliances or remodel your kitchen, be sure to find the most energy efficient appliances available as well as those that use less water. To recycle old appliances, call your local recycling department for advice on what to do to recycle them.

Sending your appliances to a landfill or passing them on to someone else is not a good idea, since ninety-five percent of refrigerator parts are recyclable. Older models that are not as energy efficient will not save you money and they are not good for the eco-system. You should recycle all of your old kitchen appliances.

Green home designs add lots of ceiling and wall insulation to your entire home. This is most beneficial and keeps your home more energy efficient. Remember to use eco-friendly insulation materials. Always chose high performance windows and double or even triple pane windows, doors and skylights as they help conserve energy as well.

With rising energy costs, energy efficient design makes economic sense. Saving money after the initial investment, reducing exposure to toxic chemicals and helping save the environment all are goals of green home designs. Learn as much as you can about the choices you have in the green interior design products that will best serve your interests.

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In order to truly follow the “reduce, reuse, recycle” mantra of recycling, one must think about remodeling a home rather than building new. Rebuilding, reusing, and improving existing infrastructures are one of the best ways to promote sustainabiliy.

One often hears adults say, “they don’t build things like they used to”. When it comes to housing and sustainability, that saying shouldn’t be the case. Homes and buildings should be built to last hundreds of years. While it is important to be sure that new construction follows green guidelines remodeling gives a home a second chance at sustainability and to prolong the life of the building.

Another plus for remodeling is that it makes existing structures more energy efficient it can improve indoor air quality and lower operating costs. Green remodeling also makes more business sense. More and more clients are asking for green homes and more and more pressure is being put on the remodeling industry to go green.

Green remodeling not only creates healthier homes, it creates a healthy environment for the construction workers and puts less volatile chemicals into the air and soil.

Green remodeling requires a lot of pre-planning, and each remodeling project is different in the amount of “greenness” that can be brought to the table. Nearly every home can be improved by upgrading windows to energy efficient models, improving the HVAC system, adding more insulation, and upgrading hot water heaters and appliances. The addition of earth friendly flooring options and the minimal use of carpeting are the basic changes that can be made to a home.

There is no doubt that going green can be more expensive. Higher cost options such as solar heating, recycled countertop materials, eco friendly insulation, and other innovative sources of energy may prove to be too expensive for the homeowner to consider. The homeowner must be educated to the fact that often a high initial cost can be offset by long term cost savings.

Having to give up traditional finishes such as oak and hickory cabinets in favor of less esthetically pleasing sustainable products may also prove to be difficult since those alternative choices are more expensive.

These factors must be determined before remodeling is started. The homeowner must decide what the best green remodeling choices they have, and to realize which ones will make their home more comfortable, easier to run and energy efficient.

As Dana Bres a research engineer for the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing” so aptly stated “Green remodeling is just like the salad bar. You can take as much as you want or as little as you want, there are multiple shades of green,”.

Since any remodeling using green technology is better than none, the greening of a home can be done in stages. Good planning is necessary to insure that more green technology can be added to the project at a later date without again going through the cost of remodeling again.

As with any large expenditure, the homeowner must do their research. Check the reputation of the firm hired to do the remodeling project. Many remodelers are jumping on the band wagon and claiming to be green when in fact they are using the same products they used when they weren’t green.

Homeowners can make a huge impact on our environment by making wise choices when remodeling. With more and more green products on the market today the decision to go green is much easier.