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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Green Home Designs


Green Home Designs | Minimalist Home Designs

Planning to make a minimalist home green. A green home plan will try to use environmentally friendly building materials and furniture and will combine the rest as much as possible. A green home design will use renewable materials and durability.

Green house growing demand for new features

Today home buyers ask for more green features as a means to reduce costs, become more environmentally friendly, and adopt a lifestyle more healthy.

Green features into one of three priorities, after the price and location. Green features focus on energy efficiency, water efficiency, resource efficiency and indoor air quality and the elements include Energy Star appliances, low flow shower heads, carpet and paint with organic compounds of low volatile, and building materials from suppliers local.

The average green buyers would shell out $ 12,000 - on average - for green features, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) green building standards program manager Kevin Morrow expects the market share of green-certified homes rose to 20 percent in 2010 from about 10 percent in 2009 and 2 percent in 2006.

Tax credit and other financial incentives, coupled with a green certification, making it easier for buyers, contractors, and real estate professionals to go and build a minimalist green home designs.