GREEN DESIGN

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Green Design
First Costs vs Lifetime Costs

A Little Smaller; A Little Greener
Smaller buildings create a softer environmental footprint

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A Little Smaller; A Little Greener

Smaller buildings minimize the environmental impact from building materials, labor, energy and waste.  They require less of everything that makes projects expensive.

Wildhorse Timberworks provides architecturally designed smaller home plans that minimize waste and material use while maximizing comfortable living space.

A good green construction project will strive to reuse and recycle waste once it has been created.  But the first step in efficient design should be reducing the amount of material used in the first place.  Building smaller eliminates material use and toxicity - before it even appears on site. 

Home maintenance can be substantially less expensive than a larger house. They require less energy to heat, fewer materials for repair, and improving an existing house creates a much smaller impact on the environment than building new.

Smaller homes leave more room for outdoor space to incorporate landscaping and space for mature plantings, and outbuildings such as detached garages or potting sheds that lend themselves to more than just storing a car or wheelbarrow.

Books like Sarah Susanka's The Not So Big House are a great resource in designing your home.

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