From our friends at designbeep.com: Successfully marketing and selling a home necessarily entails making that home beautiful and then photographing it to death in order to show off each and every compelling aspect of the design; given the huge role that photography plays in real estate, getting things just right can be a bit trickier [...]

The trend setters of Interior Design Dexigner Founded in 2001, Dexigner is the leading online portal for designers. Dexigner delivers the latest design news, events, competitions, resources and more. @dexigner IDSwest Interior Design Show West happening at the Vancouver Convention Centre September 28, 29, 30 #idswest12 @IDSwest SBID Society of British Interior Design is the [...]

The folks at Steelcase have an exciting contest running in October. Each week during the month of October Steelcase will be giving away a Steelcase Leap chair! It’s easy to enter the contest: Click the banner in this post to go to the contest page. Log in to Punchtab using the email button at right. [...]

Greenies also like great deals! Did you manage to get a new iPhone 5? Then you should get yourself a FREE iHome iPad® Sleek Stereo Speaker System* with your officemax.com purchase of $175, w/ code: TUNES, Online only. While supplies last. Visit here for more details

The leaves are changing color so why not add some color to your home? Coyuchi has new 2012 fall organic linens available! This is a limited time offer for free shipping. FREE SHIPPING on Pure Organic Linens for Bed, Bath & Baby with a $100 minimum order. Use Code Organic100. Offer is good one time [...]

If you know of a great blog about Windows please let us know. We will be glad to add this to our list of sources for daily news.

From Roof Lanterns UK Our range of hardwood bifold doors and hardwood folding doors are designed and engineered for precision and accuracy, to allow the doors to have one of the smoothest opening movements of any set. The timber bifold doors and timber folding doors are made with engineered timbers in the door leafs to [...]

From Design Happenings We love when people show creative solutions to often tough problems like this; custom seating built around a custom built window area. Bench seating is so incredibly functional, but how can you make it comfortable as well? In last week’s sunroom update, I shared a sneak peek of our custom bench seating [...]

From Dan’s Windows Change is inevitable. We change our oil. We change our sheets. Even the cells in our bodies are on a rhythmic cycle of change. But “changing the windows” doesn’t come up much in the regular day-to-day chore list. The problem is that windows are rarely cheap and so unlike some… Read more [...]

From Jetson Green: This home is officially the first Passive House in North Carolina. It’s also the first Passive House in the country built out of concrete, according to Chris Senior, certified Passive House consultant and owner of Anchorage Building Corp., the builder. Senior said his company was able to keep construction costs “surprisingly reasonable” [...]

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Like most people, we are always looking for ways to save a few dollars on our monthly bills. Combine that with reduced energy usage and it sounds like a great plan, right? Microsoft is hoping that it can build an online community around people with this in mind. Microsoft Hohm is an online web application [...]

Modern Prefab Homes Nestavilla has been building modern prefab homes for 18 years. The company is based out of Turkey and supplies their homes throughout the world. The homes are made of galvanized steel and the entire home is assembled with special screws and bolts without any welding. The homes come complete with ceilings, doors [...]

On a positive note, the painter finished staining the top-floor ceiling. The bad news: our house was broken into. Someone broke in and stole our painters stereo in the middle of the night. See the next day (The Job Site From Hell) for what it looked like out-side when this happened. The rest of the [...]

Fat-Cat Stucco has applied the dark-blue final coat and the stucco is almost complete. We are very happy with the color and can’t wait for the cedar that will be applied around the windows. [tags]home, house, construction, renovation, green, environment, eco-friendly[/tags]

We found a hole in one of our main windows in our sunroom. There was some confusion/speculation that perhaps it was shot with a pellet gun from the alley, so we took these photographs. There was so much insulation for the stucco work piled on top of the garage that shooting from the back alley [...]

Today is Blog Action Day. Local action, global impact — this is what made Cyan Ta’eed, her husband Collis Ta’eed, and Leo Babauta create Blog Action Day, a worldwide initiative to get blogs posting about a common cause: the environment. As Cyan has said of bloggers and readers around the world, “If they all make [...]

Found at blogs.propertyfinder.com Tip No 1 – Increase Insulation Levels: Insulating your home is a great way to reduce energy costs. There is a range of grants available to help with insulation costs. The UK Government funds schemes providing up to £2,500 to households on certain benefits to improve their heating and energy efficiency. Some [...]

Leaky windows and doors cause incredible losses of your home’s heat in the winter and comfortable cool in the summer. Spend a couple of hours and a handful of dollars caulking leaky windows and weatherstripping exterior doors. You’ll save on heating and cooling costs, and on energy waste.

A number of weeks have passed since the last update here. Our family participated in some weddings, a funeral and a sailing trip around Vancouver Island, Canada. Over the next two weeks we will post a daily collection of great links that were forwarded via email while we were away. HGTV with ideas for greening [...]

Although consumers are now more aware of holistic living and sustainability, finding green furniture can be a frustrating experience for many. The Seattle Times has put together a list of stores that carry eco-friendly, sustainable and natural furniture as well as tips for shopping in your own area. read more | digg story

New images of the Ramsay House Project have been uploaded to flickr. The house now has windows and the doors are being installed. You can also see the new cedar soffit that has just been installed. You can view all the images in our gallery. [tags]environment, building, construction, pictures, images, gallery, flickr, galleries, blogs, bloging[/tags]

USA Today”> recently published an article on the growing popularity of building green in Portland. People are going with green building in Portland Michelle Walsh looks out a wall of windows in her airy new condo high above the Willamette River. Across hills and forests loom snow-capped Mount Hood and, when it’s clear, Mount St. [...]

Concrete contractors We have some new pictures of our home at our home building images gallery. The concrete contractors have been working hard getting the walls of the first floor up. This image show the concrete contractors assembling the ICF blocks around the kitchen area. This picture shows our small kitchen. The concrete contractor on [...]

Once you’ve read the numbers below, there can be no doubt why there is a digital divide and Africans don’t need a donation of our old PCs: only the affluent can afford to “plug-in” and operate that kind of juice-sucking machinery in the first place.

The students also are learning how to install hot water pipes in the foundation, providing radiant heat, as well as Harvey argon-glazed windows that reflect the sun’s rays in the summer so the home doesn’t heat up too quickly.

Google Video is a service provided by Google for people to share their own videos or purchase commerical videos to watch at home. Anyone can upload a video (no copyrighted material), and watch it on Google Video, send it to friends, and add it to your own website.

Many green-material costs, like decking, wood flooring and some carpets, are comparable or even more affordable than conventional materials, although other items, such as a dual-flush toilet that includes a 0.8-gallon half-flush, are costlier than a standard toilet.

Canada cuts climate change programs Earlier this week, Canadians were reminded that the environment is not high on Conservative agenda. All the programs established by the previous Liberal government concerning climate change will come to an end shortly. One of these was the One-Tonne Challenge program. The One-Tonne Challenge is a challenge presented by the [...]

The house that Will Saltonstall is building is thoroughly green — a description that has nothing to do with the color and everything to do with its environmentally friendly design.

Windows are a very expensive component in any construction project. While almost all codes require double-pane windows, not all windows are created equally. In our past homes we’ve had all-too-much experience with double-hung windows that begin to fail early in their life — rotted seals, sagging weatherstripping and slipping upper windows that leave cracks for air infiltration.

Step inside and find transparent and interconnected spaces made possible by screens, look-through bookcases and sliding doors that stay open most of the time. It’s hard to believe that the ground floor is under 1,400 square feet. The compact floor plan is efficient and energy-conscious.

We found this article and thought it would be ideal to share with our visitors installing their own radiant heat systems. Our contractor is handling the tube installation for us and we are using the Warmboard product for our flooring, but this information helps inform home owners in what to look for and watch during [...]

We are often asked why we decided to build the ramsayhome.com project with insulated concrete forms (ICF). ICF technology is not the most common building material in Calgary or Canada, but more and more residential ICF homes are being built each year. The Portland Cement Association (PCA) provides many good reasons to consider ICF for [...]

Found at wiredhome-weblog.com: You can read Rob Enderle’s thoughts on this topic on TechNewsWorld. I’d have to agree with most of what he writes, but I take exception to his thoughts that using embedded Linux over Windows leads to “horrid support”. It has been my experience that any Open Source software will always have better [...]

Found at CoPIRG – The Consumer Advocate. Start Saving Money & Energy Right Now Here are twelve quick tips to help you save money and energy this winter. Tip #1 Replace your most frequently used incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lights. Tip #2 Replace outdoor lighting with a motion-detector equipped bulb or fixture. Tip #3 [...]