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Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family Room & Bedrooms. Furnishings & Décor. Laundry & Mud Room. Mechanicals & Garage. Recycling & Reuse. We’ve discovered many wonderful green resources, many right here in Chicago’s North Shore, and are happy to share them with you. The following list includes the products and services we’ve used in our home and other useful information. Click on the link for more info. Jump To A Category:. Environmental and Nature Organizations. Green News and Resources. Lake Bluff, IL.
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ECOHOUSEWALK » Bathrooms
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Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family Room & Bedrooms. Furnishings & Décor. Laundry & Mud Room. Mechanicals & Garage. Recycling & Reuse. In the average house, 350 gallons of water are used daily and 27% goes toward toilet supply. Older toilets can use as much as 3.5 gallons per flush (GPF)! To conserve water, we chose low-flow WaterSense. Toilets, which use at least 20% less than the standard 1.6 GPF. The Sterling. Karston dual flush uses 1.6 or .8 GPF. The Kohler. URINALS IN THE HOUSE. Organic Christy...
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ECOHOUSEWALK » Lighting
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Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family Room & Bedrooms. Furnishings & Décor. Laundry & Mud Room. Mechanicals & Garage. Recycling & Reuse. To take advantage of free, natural light from the sun, we designed our home so every room would have abundant daylight. For the three interior rooms of the house (besides closets) without windows, we added transoms or French doors to gain sunlight. And MENARDS. The ECOSMART LED. For our recessed lighting in the basement, we chose ELITE. All exterior landscaping lighti...
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ECOHOUSEWALK » Flooring
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Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family Room & Bedrooms. Furnishings & Décor. Laundry & Mud Room. Mechanicals & Garage. Recycling & Reuse. For flooring we choose natural wood, ceramic and stone tiles, wool carpet, bamboo and recycled rubber. Most of the wood flooring in the house is American black walnut, forested from the Midwest. It is set on Maxxon gypcrete. Made from recycled fly ash, which encases the radiant heat piping. LEWIS CARPET. Has a great green flooring showroom. And VILLAGE CARPETS for our...
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ECOHOUSEWALK » Kitchen
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Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family Room & Bedrooms. Furnishings & Décor. Laundry & Mud Room. Mechanicals & Garage. Recycling & Reuse. For all new appliances, we selected Energy Star. Models to maximize efficiency. Our Thermador. Refrigerator is at least 28% more energy efficient, our Thermador freezer 28% more efficient and Bosch. Dishwasher 146% more efficient than the minimum standard. Even our dehumidifier and Dirt Devil mini vacuum are Energy Star rated. LOCAL, ORGANIC FOOD SOURCES. For more inf...
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ECOHOUSEWALK » Shades of Green
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Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family Room & Bedrooms. Furnishings & Décor. Laundry & Mud Room. Mechanicals & Garage. Recycling & Reuse. Everyone’s idea of a green home seems to differ, countless variations exist. Although you might not stumble upon many wind turbines or straw bale houses around town, you will find many replaced light bulbs, some rain barrels and a few geothermal systems. Priorities, budget and logistics all impact the degree of greening, not to mention spousal input! Waste Reduction, ...
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ECOHOUSEWALK » Home Office
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Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family Room & Bedrooms. Furnishings & Décor. Laundry & Mud Room. Mechanicals & Garage. Recycling & Reuse. Our HP Photosmart printer and EPSON PERFECTION scanner are both Energy Star. Most of our telephones are corded and several do not require AC adapters and constant electricity. For cordless phones, we chose Energy Star models, such as the Unidan above. Cases on our iPHONE and BLACKBERRY, which are certified to reduce cell phone radiation up to 85%. For special invitati...
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ECOHOUSEWALK » Site Plan and Building Envelope
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Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family Room & Bedrooms. Furnishings & Décor. Laundry & Mud Room. Mechanicals & Garage. Recycling & Reuse. Site Plan and Building Envelope. Our site plan was oriented to harness the suns power and light. We needed a roof line (for installing solar panels by Solar Service Inc. Throughout the design and building process, we worked to tighten the house’s envelope seal to minimize energy loss. Before drywall, energy raters JIM CAVALLO. REBATES FOR NEW EFFICIENT PRODUCTS $.
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Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family Room & Bedrooms. Furnishings & Décor. Laundry & Mud Room. Mechanicals & Garage. Recycling & Reuse. Virtual tour, our guide of room by room resources for green living. Get the tour started by selecting one of the links below. Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family and Bed Rooms. Laundry and Mud Room. Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family Room & Bedrooms. Furnishings & Décor. Laundry & Mud Room. Mechanicals & Garage. Recycling & Reuse.
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ECOHOUSEWALK » Family Room & Bedrooms
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Site Plan and Building Envelope. Family Room & Bedrooms. Furnishings & Décor. Laundry & Mud Room. Mechanicals & Garage. Recycling & Reuse. Family Room & Bedrooms. Televisions consume about 4% of households energy use. All of our televisions (SAMSUNG) are rated Energy Star. Which use at least 30% less energy than standard comparable units. Top sealing chimney dampers to eliminate 90% of leaking winter heat and summer cooling. All bedrooms have wood blinds and floor rugs that can be easily cleaned. In ...
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