For Garden Enhancements, look into: Bird Feeders, Climate Zones, Container Gardening, Creating Theme Gardens, Garden Designing, Garden Sculptures, Gardening with Children, Indoor Planting, and Planting Seeds. Concrete yard deer, painted gnomes, shinny balls on stands, wagon wheels, or plastic pink flamingos are a clear way to reflect your personal taste directly to the public. If you prefer a more subtle approach to garden enhancements keep it natural and go with decorative planting that is indigenous to your area and provides accent features. Go for a total sensory emersion with enhancements that appeal to all five senses: Sight, Smell, Taste, Touch, and Sound. Flowers are for the sight and smell, herbs for smell and taste, and to cover touch you can add some Mint. Pluck the leaves out of your garden and twist them in your finger to then drop straight into a tall glass of iced tea to enhance a summer afternoon. To round out the fifth sense, you may need a wind chime or two nearby to give your garden and outdoor living environment the surround sound accompaniment. Bonus: Mint from your garden goes straight into a clear covered glass container along with tea bags and water to brew your own tea on a hot summer day from the power of the sun. Now, serving…solar ice tea with garden fresh mint!
The right home improvement products, techniques, and services:
Contractors, home improvement stores, and specialty shops in your area may not yet have a complete familiarity with the ‘green’ opportunities, products, system integration, and overall savings potential. So, you may get some resistance, since people in general are typically more comfortable recommending something that they are already familiar with rather than something new. To help break the inertia, use the information across this website like our Return on Investment Master ROI Table. Also feel free to post a question in our forum on the message board about a particular need for your home relative to your area. Our team has spent multiple years aggregating research from public and private sector performance reports and from manufacturers and homeowners across the country in order to provide you with the perspective you may need to see the initial payback and long term advantages. Environmental enthusiasts and leading institutions like the American Institute of Architects and the National Association of Realtors, see the value and link into our resources to support their members.
The Green Home:
For your overall home improvement, you can save money, improve your family’s health, and save the planet. Find out for free how much it will cost to do different types of home improvement in your home from a qualified and member approved contractor in your area. Get a FREE Quote . Plus, regardless of the size and scope of your home improvement project, save money and keep your home clean with the top rated chemical free and concentrated Green Home Cleaning Products.
Home Improvement Basics:
When it comes to home improvement basics, look for interior home improvements like creating a clean, safe, and healthy home through sustainable ‘green’ furniture, home décor, zero VOC and Interior Paint, plus ENERGY STAR Appliances and Electronics. For energy and utility savings you can focus on insulation and air sealing, windows, doors, lighting and skylights, water saving plumbing opportunities, and high efficiency heating and air conditioning systems. On the outside of your house, look for exterior home improvement opportunities through landscape design and gardening plus solar energy, wind and other power sources. If you are undertaking a major home renovation, an additions, or building a new home, then take the lead to ‘go green’ in as many ways as possible to save money and the environment.
