Green Home Examples

A Plant-Covered Prefab Anyone Can Build in 3 Days

Can you imagine living under your garden, your flowers, your trees, in a green, vibrant living environment? Plus, these homes offer infinite design possibilities and they’ll last for hundreds of years with minimal maintenance.

“The Love Shack” – A Net-Zero Energy Home in North Carolina

Against the backdrop of North Carolina’s Lake Fontana, Blue Ridge and Great Smoky mountains, perched on a steep hillside, you will find the “Love Shack.” The “Love Shack,” is far from what anyone would consider a ‘shack.’

A Custom Living Building Challenge Home in Portland, OR

These homeowners decided to go for the Living Building Challenge. The Challenge is a strict rating system that leaps far beyond LEED in its requirements for non-toxic, locally sourced materials for every component of the building.

Before & After: EcoDEEP Haus Sustainable Renovation

This former 1940’s one and a half story Cape Cod house was transformed into a high performance, sustainably designed modern home that uses 50% less energy than code and 40%+ less energy than its predecessor – even at nearly twice the size.

Tour a Luxury Sustainable Mountain Getaway

Known as the “Lodgepole Retreat,” the high-alpine, uber-energy-efficient “cabin” with floor-to-ceiling windows and lots of natural light is set among a 30-acre meadow and a grove of lodgepole pines.

Tour a Luxury, Artistic, Super-Green Home

With nearly 5,000 sq ft of living space, 3,350 above ground, this heritage home is anything but old-school. Matt Gilgan tackled this renovation with an eye for beauty, detail, and delightfully unexpected sustainable features.

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