{"id":1169,"date":"2009-07-06T20:25:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T03:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2012-02-15T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T22:44:32","slug":"benefits-of-building-a-green-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/benefits-of-building-a-green-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Building A Green Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interest in building an energy-draining dream home that comes with high costs and wasteful space is fast becoming a thing of the past. Today&#8217;s homeowners are very savvy about energy-efficiency and economics. The economy has swiftly changed us from excessive pampering to practical living. Helping to make that road easier are architects and designers, builders and manufacturers, who support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/innovate\/content\/jul2009\/id2009076_502262.htm\">green building<\/a> through their products and services. The House Designers offer an exclusive collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/energystarhouseplans.asp\">green house plans<\/a>, which are all endorsed by ENERGY STAR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/greenhouseplans\/green-building.asp\">Building a green home<\/a> means that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll use 40% less energy and water than comparable standard homes. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re worried that building a green home will look different than a standard home \u00e2\u20ac\u201c think again. Your new, green home is likely to be smaller, but designed to look bigger with the right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/open-floor-plans.asp\">floor plan<\/a>, window locations and interior design accents. Flexible spaces make it easier to do more with less space. For example a 15&#8242; by 30&#8242; family room could easily be designed to convert to a 24-person dining room during the holiday season. <\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind it&#8217;s going to be a lot easier to maintain an energy-efficient home, because it&#8217;s smaller and much more durable than most standard homes because of its high-quality building materials and construction processes, requiring fewer repairs. <\/p>\n<p>The best benefits of designing and building a green home are lower operating costs, a healthier interior environment, and increased level of comfort for daily living in your home. You&#8217;ll see these benefits directly relate to an increase in your home&#8217;s market value as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interest in building an energy-draining dream home that comes with high costs and wasteful space is fast becoming a thing of the past. Today&#8217;s homeowners are very savvy about energy-efficiency and economics. The economy has swiftly changed us from excessive pampering to practical living. Helping to make that road easier are architects and designers, builders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,2],"tags":[43,683,56,113,46,61],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floor-plans","category-houseplans","tag-add-new-tag","tag-floor-plans","tag-green-building","tag-green-designs","tag-home-plans","tag-houes-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}