Green Home Helps To Save Money and Environment

Green Home in India is not a new concept or a new thing to real estate in India. Today green home means a home or apartment project where builder or architect adopts green principles such as rainwater harvesting, effective waste management system and focusing on energy or water efficiency. Increasing conscious of health and environment has resulted in increase in demand for green homes in India. The combination of innovative green ideas and high technology not only helped real estate sector in India but also helped to save money and environment by reducing or eliminating wastage of water, energy & building material.

Everyone wants their home and neighborhood green and clean. It is not required that your home be expensive to make them green home. Builders and developers brings innovative technique to make their project affordable green home. But if you already own a home 5 or 10 years back and it is not a green home, don’t try to make them green by investing on expensive items or things that cannot be handled or maintained easily.

Convert existing homes to Green home

Simple and easy ways to save environment and covert your existing homes to Green home is replacing home appliance that sucks your electricity and replace taps or fittings that consumes your water. Insulating your homes, natural ventilation and lightings, landscaping and replacing with energy star appliance and water saving fixtures can help you to convert existing home to green home.

Bring greenery into homes by adopting balcony gardening, hanging or container garden etc. Use single color flower stick or a colorful bunch in bedroom or living room and ensure some extra oxygen with these plants.

Things to look when buying a Green Home

• Ensure the property is installed with water-saving devices and energy saving devices.

• When choosing flooring for your apartment, choose marbles as they are environment friendly.

• Granite has an advantage of absorbing heat and it is recommended for kitchen slabs.

• Choose location close to office, school and shopping or entertainment.

• If the location or distance between home and office is easy to commuting in bicycle, use bicycle once or twice in a week.

• Let natural sunlight into your house and prevent growth of bed bugs and mites.

• Reduce plastic and promote composting in your neighborhood.

• While painting your home or apartment, go for zero or low-VOC paint.