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How to Improve Your Indoor Air Quality
If you were to guess, where would you say air quality is the worst: outside, your work environment or your home? We recently became REGREEN certified and were shocked to learn the answer is your home. In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air contains 2 to 5 times more contaminants than outdoor air and our homes are the worst offenders. This information is even more alarming considering the average American spends approximately 90 percent of their time indoors. Perfumes, ducts, paints, carpets, adhesives, cleaners, flame retardants, formaldehyde and upholstery are just a few of the indoor air...
Designing a Craftsman-Style Home
If variety is the spice of life, interior design is one spicy profession! From transitional and traditional to contemporary and eclectic, no two design projects are ever the same. Change keeps us on our toes, but also makes us love our job all the more. Recently, we selected all the finishes for a new construction, American Craftsman-style home that embraces all the ideals of the style: to live simply, be connected to nature and design with clean lines and hand-crafted wood, glass and metal works. If you're unfamiliar with the Arts and Crafts movement, it began in opposition to the Industrial Revolution, which...
BGI Becomes REGREEN Certified
You might say we caught the green construction bug when we recently designed the Village Park Eco Home. But in reality, we simply saw the full value of sustainable healthy living and wanted the ability to offer all its options to our clients. So as designers, we recently completed the REGREEN Trained™ certificate program. If a client wants to build, remodel or design with environmentally friendly products to improve air quality or simply wants to increase the efficiency of their home, we're trained and up-to-date on the latest advancements in green construction. We're also well-informed on how and where to...