Eco-Friendly Features For Today’s Luxury Homes

Luxury homes are known for their extravagance, intricate style, and appeal, but it does not have to stop there. More and more eco-friendly and sustainably designed options are becoming popular, and that includes large luxury homes. Designers and builders have taken the cutting edge of new, “eco-friendly” technologies to create and renovate homes that embrace green architecture and green design. If you are looking to renovate or buy an eco-friendly luxury home at Lake of the Ozarks, here are a few wonderful features that offer the ultimate luxury and sustainable lifestyle.

Sustainable & Locally Sourced Materials

This is one of the more popular options when following an eco-friendly lifestyle in luxury. When remodeling a home, you can become more familiar with the locally sourced items to customize your home. This can include stone, wood, thatch, or even local clay depending on what you have around you at the time. This helps reduce the carbon footprint and challenges contractors to seek local solutions to new design challenges.

LED Lighting

Electricity is obviously a modern convenience that no one wants to forgo, but there are some things you can do to reduce the amount that you are using. One of the easiest ways to do so is by utilizing LED technology. LED bulbs are much more energy-efficient than the filament bulbs, and it means that the carbon footprint can be reduced without having to sit in the dark.

LEED Certification

This is a term that is well known in the industry, an LEED certification is the keyword for a company that practices eco-friendly construction. It stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and it’s a green building certification program that raises the standards. In fact, more than 150,000 homes around the world are LEED-certified, and the number is always increasing.

Green Roofs and Walls

Green roofs can be so practical and effective that mainstream design-focused authorities are offering them as well as teaching how to install them. Luxury homes can incorporate green roofs and balconies for a mix of style, as well as efficient, natural cooling and aesthetic beauty.

Geothermal Heating & Cooling 

This is similar to solar panels, but geothermal heating and cooling can harness the forces of nature and provide you a comfortable environment in your home. This technology allows homeowners.to keep the most luxurious home’s environmental footprint relatively small.

Want To Make Improvements?

Real estate often needs a bit of an update every so many years. If your home has not been updated recently, it may be time to change things up, and while you are at it, you can make green choices. The way materials are made, sourced, and then transported can make a huge difference, even if it does not feel like it. Vacation homes at the Lake of the Ozarks can be both exceptionally beautiful and still helping to reduce the carbon footprint.

If you do not have a luxury home at the Lake of the Ozarks, now is a great time to start looking. You can count on Luxury Lake Home, associated with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services to assist you in handling your real estate purchase with professionalism and experience.


MATTHEW SCHRIMPF
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
Lake Ozark Realty

www.LuxuryLakeHome.com

Email: schrimmj@gmail.com

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