HGTV Dreaming Green
Jay Johnson Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 9:00AM 
HGTV 2011 green homeThose of you who dream of living in an eco-friendly home and easing your impact on planet earth, HGTV has the perfect house for you. This year's house giveaway is a green home located in Denver, Colorado. The city's vistas of endless blue sky and snow-topped mountains provide a fitting backdrop for the environmentally-conscious new construction.
Some of the green features is a roof lined with photo-voltaic panels that provide 75% of the house's energy and exterior walls wrapped in recycled-cellulose insulation, preventing heat loss. The surrounding gardens also adopted green practices - using drip-irrigation method of watering the plants - water is targeted at the roots rather than the atmosphere. Sensors also shut off the system during rainy weather.
The interior rooms are painted in Sherwin-Williams' Harmony paint line that have zero-VOC (volatile-organic compounds) emissions. Interior Designer Linda Woodrum chose the chic and contemporary style to complement the edgy modern architecture.
HGTV green home living room
HGTV green home laundry roomEven the laundry room above gets special treatment. Woodrum created an all-purpose room that's close to the kitchen where the owner can keep a close eye on kids and laundry. The laundry room has desk areas for studying as well as a lounge area for relaxing. And the washer/dryer disappears with a swing of double doors and the laundry room transforms to a family room!
HGTV green home master bedroomWoodrum continues the eco-friendly approach by using organic bed linens. The elaborate wood-grid headboard uses locally sourced beetle-kill pine. Other accessories use reclaimed woods such as the wooden sculpture and the mirror.
HGTV's green home is not only earth-friendly but it will provide the future homeowner with a serene, elegant home and many time-saving practical conveniences. This homeowner could be you! Join HGTV's contest!
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Reader Comments (36)
Excellent house. How much would it cost realization of such a house?
I don't care what other people say that is my dream house with out a doubt!
Simply amazing pictures and I would like to thank both the blogger and the photographer for a good read/view. Thank you.
If my house will be like that, I will not go outside anymore. The architecture and the construction of the house are superb and that is my dream house. Thanks for this great pictures and I do have now an idea what to do with my house. Thanks again.
Such a beautiful and my dream house.. Landlord of this house is very lucky because he has a beautiful house.
This house is really extremely beautiful.
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very beautiful design, sometimes i want to make a home like this...
We should all be designing and building houses like this to help the environment - just a bit of common sense really.
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Wow, the only thing I see that's missing is a modern, electricity producing windmill. But with "roof lined with photo-voltaic panels that provide 75% of the house's energy" you really don't need the windmill.
Denver gets about 300 days of sunshine per year so this is one serious efficient home.
I loved the laundry room concept, such an innovative space saving idea!.
This is rally a dream home.
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What a lovely home. I am always moved when I see nice architecture, ergonomical space, and especially when it it in touch with environment.Well done.
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A beutiful design, but a prefer more a tree house design. That would be cool.
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I like the pictures... its simple design, there's no many colors, but beautiful.
I love the overall look of the house, more so with the interior design. The facade of the house is so clever.
A beautiful designed house and excellent interior design..
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Very beatiful house.
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This is a beautiful eco-friendly home. Thanks Alexia.
This is such a beautiful house! I would love to live in a house like this one day. I love the designs and that it is eco-friendly. I bet it uses Insuladd energy saving paint and other energy saving options for the home.
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Nice.. I like te whole designs of this house.
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Wow prettiest house I have seen that is built to go green. Thanks for sharing.
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