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Why Green Remodeling?

Cost Saving-Energy efficient and water saving designs and products reduce monthly utility bills. The most efficient new appliances typically use 50% less energy than the most wasteful models. Choosing a high-efficiency washing machine can save up to $90 on energy bills and 6,000 gallons of water, every year.

Health -Health-focused designs maximize fresh air and natural light, while reducing the risk of injury and asthma. Using green and low-toxic materials and good ventilation techniques can help to prevent problems like molds, allergens and poor air quality that causes many health problems.

Beauty & Comfort -Natural materials, high quality lighting, and good design details make for pleasing spaces.

Added Value- Universal designed homes that welcome various ages and abilities are marketable to a larger population. Green elements also represent value: 96% home buyer said they are willing to pay more for a home with green features.

Ecological Benefit-By making your home remodeling green, you can be more resource efficient, minimize waste, and recycle what’s left over to reduce the amount of materials ending up in landfills. choosing environmentally responsible products, you can protect forests, wildlife, and air and water quality. 

Bamboo, Lyptus or Veneer Wenge, Zebrawood & Rosewood are the latest materials that are look great for your kitchen remodel and are also renewable materials. Which one do you like if you were to redo your kitchen cabinets?

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Greenly labeled Southern California homes are averaging an increase in value of $34,800 says researchers from UC Berkeley and UCLA.

Now that is money you can take to the bank.

Read more below to find out what kind of improvements make the biggest impact. 

Eco-friendly Remodeling In Los Angeles

Many construction companies right now are jumping on the GREEN wagon, all of them have different interpretation of GREEN or eco-friendly remodeling. But what does green building and eco-friendly remodeling really mean?

Eco-Friendly Green Remodeling Basics In Los Angeles

As a green construction specialist, I often give advice and guidance over the phone. Los Angeles is a large territory to cover and many people call with wide range of questions on how apply green home remodeling techniques to their future projects. Below are some questions I sometimes ask clients to consider when considering their next project, appliance, upgrade, remodel or repair. Because sometimes it is more cost effective and environmentally better to replace and upgrade home appliances or home features like old energy draining refrigerators. While other times a few simple yet effective upgrades will save you water, electricity and headache in the long term.

Continue reading after the jump to find out more.

I was at a client's home in Los Angeles, California today providing a comprehensive green home remodeling analysis. Our client's main concern was indoor air contamination that was causing constant allergies. Below are problems and solutions that make indoor air quality toxic or poor, leading and contributing to allergic reactions.

We sweep our floors, spray our bathroom or even scrub the whole house with a full arsenal of home cleaning products. But what about the part of the house that we don’t see yet breathe into our lung thousand times a day. 

Keep reading after the link for 11 top causes of indoor pollution and some solutions:

While out on a project in Glendale, CA, our client asked great questions before we started the project. Below are some of the remodeling topics we took into consideration. 

MAKING THE MOST OUT OF HOME REMODELING

One of the most important objectives of home remodeling is the add value to an existing home. Homeowners may add upgrades or renovate entire are of their homes to make them more marketable. Unfortunately not all home remodeling are worth doing . Here are some ways to get your money’s worth in home remodeling and renovation.