eco-friendly home

This awesome group of rooms shows you how you can furnish and decorate every room in your home to be eco-friendly AND incredibly stylish — and you can do it on a budget, in some cases. Every item used in these rooms is green in some way.

With soaring energy costs and a hot summer just beginning, homeowners are looking for any way to keep the months ahead cool.  One option that many do not consider is “cool,” metal roofing.  Cool, metal roofing is eco-friendly, sustainable, and can save you twenty percent or more on your energy bill.

This is a “how-to” natural building lesson, an in-depth video about earthen plastering techniques. Featured in this video are instructions for making natural plaster from just a few earthen ingredients, and both making and mixing the plaster, and then applying it to a natural home wall. Anyone who might have some curiosity or interest in learning more about natural home construction and design is encouraged to take a look!

Katrina-Era emergency housing, HELP Home, has evolved and has been released as a commercial line of architectural products: microSYSTEM.
This 100sf collection of buildings include models for use as sheds, studios, cabanas and/or homes all designed and built with an eco-friendly mindset.
They show how much can be done within a little footprint.