Eco-friendly, green homes help reduce energy usage. Ashwin Architects provide design and architectural services for residential and commercial constructions in Bangalore. The issue of sustainability & green designs gets relegated to the second spot because the first question about construction is the cost. Although most people are aware of environmental issues, still the percentage of people willing to try out new techniques are limited. Ashwin Architects use climatology & building orientation to a great extent to provide natural light & ventilation thus reducing dependency on mechanical means of controlling temperatures. Today, the need is to incorporate green concepts that would only increase the cost by a small percentage. Many who would like to remodel their homes may also want to consider incorporating green concepts like provisions for natural light & ventilation thus reducing dependency on mechanical means of controlling temperatures. Other techniques they can use are borewell recharging with roof water run-off, solar lights for the house, solar geysers, motion-detecting sensors for lights. Address of Ashwin Architects - No. 23, Ratnavilas Rd, Basavanagudi Bangalore - 560004 Website: http://www.ashwinarchitects.com

It's a great way to collect photos of images that you like for your house using the "Ideabook" system. If you haven't designed the house yet, you can share these photos with your architect or designer to give them ideas of what you like. If you are at the point of decorating you can put together an ideabook for each room in the house. You can even ask you family members for their input by having them do their own ideabook. If you have a specific question, you can post it in the "discussions" and you will get opinions and answers from all over the world. It's a great way to design your space.

If you are indeed serious, you need the services of an engineer, for starters.

To save cost ideally RCC brickwork & external plaster should get completed for upper flower I.e. 2nd & 3rd floor. and then based on budget internal finishing should get completed.