Being Green

At Tahoe Luxury Home Designs, we pride ourselves on using environmentally friendly “green” practices.

Done correctly, green building is not only good for the environment, but it can significantly reduce the overall life-cycle cost of your home. While it may cost a little more, up front, to design and build your home, cabin, or estate, the construction phase roughly accounts for only about 20% of the total life-cycle cost of the structure. While this may seem false, it nevertheless is true.

By investing more on the front end, you'll save on the overall cost of the project AND enjoy increased comfort, livability, durability, lower operating costs, easier and/or less maintenance, with less impact to you, your neighbors, and the environment, allowing you more time to spend with your family and friends. It will provide more enjoyment of your home, cabin, or estate, and allow you more freedom to explore what our area has to offer. 

In its simplest form, green building is ultimately about designing more efficiently, building less wastefully, and utilizing materials more effectively, mostly by making more intelligent choices, 

while consciously implementing better practices, procedures, and policies, and sometimes by being inspired to come up with whole new ways of doing things that help us all. . .