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Smaller Smarter Homes

Americans are moving on up to smaller, smarter homes

"You can save thousands of dollars" by using simple materials in a well-designed space, says Susanka, author of the best-selling 1998 book The Not So Big House. For more than a decade, she has urged people to build better, not bigger. Now, as the U.S. Economy struggles to climb out of a tailspin and environmental concerns rise, her message has gone mainstream. Ref. Source 7

Homes Smarter Smaller

We have been promoting this in a different manner here as well though sustainable housing. It just makes sense, we have smaller families then in the past but yet our homes are bigger and bigger. result of a status symbol perhaps?

We need to make better home not just more insulation but redesigned so as to promote cooling and heating seasons and windows doors that do not fall apart in 10 years. Also more accountability as to how you use your heating and cooling systems as well. It is a complicated picture that can be redesigned but only if the builders are forced to.

Buildings today are build to the minimum standard so why increase that standard to make a home sustainable?

Smaller Smarter Homes History & Civil Business Politics

When you start planning or a home there is always a tendency to think big, that is a mistake. Consider what you really need and you'll find yourselves buying a smaller home. There are states with laws that dictate the number of rooms for children, but besides that you will spend less.