Living with Buildings
Biophilia And Interior Design
This nature-based principle is increasingly popular with luxury real estate, businesses, homeowners, and other organizations, adding to a building’s value by improving the occupants’ experience.
Enhance Sustainability (& Real Estate Values) with Transitional Spaces
Transitional spaces are essential to the sustainable design of buildings. They connect the inside and outside and are aesthetically pleasing and practical.
Sustainable Water Supply: What do you know beyond the faucet?
Do you know what a water cistern is? The Romans did, and most of our grandparents would probably nod their heads. Water cisterns may begin to be more common in Real Estate…
Tiny Houses: filling a need for Sustainable Housing options.
Tiny houses have shown up in sustainable housing conversation by offering housing alternatives. Tiny Houses were big news in 2008 when the housing market turned south.
Green Spaces: Designing Your Own Private Oasis.
The term green space is used most often in urban design and refers to an area of land, either publicly or privately owned, that is predominantly covered in vegetation…
Biophilic Design and the Benefits to Living Well
Biophilic design has become increasingly popular among luxury real estate, businesses, homeowners, and organizations as a means of improving their buildings’ occupants’ experiences.
Sustainable Connections Opens Doors for Real Estate Agents
Who could be better should be local eco-ambassadors in their communities other than the Real Estate agencies and their agents?
Cork From Harvesting To Sustainable Designs
Once better known as a lowly bottle stopper or bulletin board, cork has become an in-demand design material, being used for a multitude of interior building applications.
What is Bamboo and how can you use it?
Bamboo is a relative to the grass family, there are approximately 116 different genera (families) and about 14000 species (branches of relatives) growing in subtropical regions and cold climates
A Home Buyers Shopping List For a Sustainable Home
Understanding all options for sustainable housing deserves more attention from real estate agents and prospective homeowners alike.