The American Society of Interior Designers Foundation collaborated with
US Green Building Council to produce the free guidelines helping you to understand about green home
renovation. 'REGREEN,' information is available at no cost to you, free, gratis!
The guidelines is project-based and it's chock-full of info. Contents organized primarily into 10 common types of projects for the house, i.e. bathroom, bedroom, living and working, basement, home performance, gut rehab, and more. Then it also offers part of it if you decided to do energy retrofit and going outdoors.
The one thing you have to know. The REGreen guidelines is not a rating system like LEED for homes. (Watsa green home info here). However, it does use different ratings if and when applicable such as HERS (Home Energy Rating System), EPA Energy Star for energy rating. EPA WaterSense, the rating for water efficiency criteria. Then there is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for wood certification. The list goes on and on.
Kitchen is one of the most popular remodeling projects according to NAR survey. Before and after case, from the kitchen renovation case study.
kitchen after
Here is where you can download the REGREEN guidelines (.pdf)*.
*Warning: it's a big file!
