Your new home is all built, but you have one problem, too many mosquitoes. Well, it’s time to build an addition then – a bat house. This is the original green solution to pesky mosquitoes, wasps, beetles and moths. Did you know that a single bat can consume over 600 mosquitoes in just one hour? That’s what I call pest control. Forget the chemical sprays, invite the bats to play! Bats like small dark spaces to live. Building a...

Typically we leave electrical issues to the electricians, but it would be nice to have a certain sense of what the electricians are doing within our home, so that we can be assured we are getting what we want and what we paid for. It is far less expensive to make sure the electrical work is done correctly while we are in the building process, than it is to correct it later. Electrical work is one of those things that we need do have done before...

The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has a great exhibit for the green enthusiasts. It is a 2500+ square foot home that the museum touts as “the greenest home in Chicago.” It first caught my eye because it was built using modular building technology. It is comforting to know that we are definitely on the right track when we say our systems built homes are inherently green. This particular home was built with all of the...