{"id":1276,"date":"2009-08-05T20:01:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T03:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2012-02-15T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T18:21:49","slug":"what-makes-a-home-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/what-makes-a-home-green\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes A Home Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/gwmBuildings\/idUS94429442720090804\">Green building<\/a> means designing, sitting and constructing a home as well as improving the way that homes use energy, water, and materials to provide a healthy living environment. Our architects and designers make it their priority to embrace sustainable building practices and the use of eco-friendly products and materials whenever possible, which is why all their green <a href=\"http:\/\/www.green-energy-news.com\/arch\/nrgs2009\/20090060.html\">home plans<\/a> have been awarded the &#8220;Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR\u00c2\u00ae.&#8221; Our designers have taken into consideration all structural aspects, including insulation, window placement for natural lighting, air circulation, and the use of energy efficient appliances and lighting. <\/p>\n<p>Building a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/home\/la-hm-schey1-2009aug01,0,193151.story\">green home<\/a> begins with ENERGY STAR\u00c2\u00ae blue because the first thing you should consider when you begin building your new home is energy-efficiency. By purchasing one of our exclusive ENERGY STAR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/energystarhouseplans.asp\">house plans<\/a>, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done the work for you. If you and your builder follow the guidelines and designs of these plans you will assure yourself a home that saves money on utility bills, provides better indoor air quality, a comfortable living space and helps protect the environment. <\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the type of features to look for in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/03\/business\/energy-environment\/03iht-green03.html\">ENERGY STAR<\/a> qualified home you can read<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/greenhouseplans\/greenhomeplans.asp\"> What Makes A Home Green<\/a> and visit are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/greenhouseplans\/green-building.asp\">green building<\/a> articles section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green building means designing, sitting and constructing a home as well as improving the way that homes use energy, water, and materials to provide a healthy living environment. Our architects and designers make it their priority to embrace sustainable building practices and the use of eco-friendly products and materials whenever possible, which is why all [&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":[85],"tags":[132,682,46,45],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-house-plans","tag-energy-star-house-plans","tag-green-house-plans","tag-home-plans","tag-house-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","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=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}