The Low Down On Green Living
July 2nd, 2008
Green House Plans from FreeGreen
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Think you can’t afford an architect to design your green dream home? Wrong-ola. Now you can get free green home plans from FreeGreen.
FreeGreen’s mission is clear and simple: ”At FreeGreen we hope to encourage progressive building practices by making green home designs free for everyone.” The company is able to provide these free designs because they make money from companies looking to promote their green home materials/products (e.g., flooring from FLOR, tankless water heaters from Rinnai, GE Energy Star appliances, etc.) To learn more about FreeGreen’s history and business model, click here.
This is really an amazing service– you just go to the site, find the home design you want, and download the plans. It is amazingly easy. The site is quite new and has some little bugs, but you can still really do a lot with it. (For instance to download you need to click on the “virtual tour” link for the house you want.) In addition to downloading the drawing set for your builder, you can download the energy performance data for the home you have selected. You can also get a Spec Book of the building products and finishes that can be installed in your home.
They have three house plans they are featuring now and they will be adding more as time goes on. The one pictured at right above is the “Suburban Loft,” which can be 1,200 to 2,600 square feet. I’m personally partial to the Smart Box, pictured at left. It can be 1,000 to 2,200 square feet. They also offer a more traditional looking “Healthy Family” home which can be 1,800 to 3,000 feet. And you can customize any of these designs to your geographic location and sizing desires. Check out all of the plans here.
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Comments
Greg Werner
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:09 am
The efforts of visionaries like FreeGreen will grease the skids for “green for the masses” which is where it really counts. Great work FreeGreen!
Leslie @ the oko box
July 8th, 2008 at 7:32 am
These are exactly the kind of services that will spearhead making environmentally friendly building possible! Thanks for sharing this- how awesome - I can’t wait to drool over some free plans.
Home Plans Advisor
September 22nd, 2010 at 9:21 pm
This is a great resource for green home building. You can download free green plans! Good job FreeGreen!
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