The Renner Companies

By Mel Inglima

With good preparation and guidance, it’s easy to keep costs under control. Whether you’re getting ready to build or remodel, it makes sense to have a well defined strategy to follow.

So, you’re looking for ideas for building your home and making it green. Green homes are healthy buildings for the occupants and the environment. They are also economical buildings, boasting reduced energy, water and maintenance costs. However, constructing or renovating homes in an environmentally responsible manner requires a great deal of planning and there are hundreds of building techniques and products to integrate into a green home. The most important consideration is balancing economic and time input with economic, personal and environmental benefit. Whether you are building your home here in North Georgia or any other climate, here are some specific ideas that may help you build your green home.

by Marcus Pickett

by Matt Myers

Prospective homeowners should give careful consideration to their decisions when planning to build a home. A great home is one that you are happy to wake up in every day, which is efficient in its layout and usage, that is interesting yet practical, and that brings joy into the very basics of living. These 8 steps will help to guide you through the process:

by Marc Dickinson

by Veronica Smith

US housing construction rebounded more vigorously than expected in May from all-time lows, official data showed Tuesday, stoking hopes the real-estate crisis at the heart of the recession may be easing.

by Sarah Susanka, AIA

After living in Atlanta for about 20 years, I decided it was time to start looking for ‘greener grass’. I was getting tired of the city life and all that comes with it. I had begun making more and more trips to the North Georgia area. Any excuse would do. Sometimes, I would just spend the day driving around the mountains with no particular plan except to be up here enjoying a little bit of heaven on earth.

The reports are in! An article in Professional Builders Magazine states that, according to the Pew Research Center, nearly 50 percent of Americans say they would rather live in a different community than where they now live. And of those people, most of them are looking toward the suburbs or smaller communities. Apparently, city dwellers were ‘less enthusiastic’ about their environments than those living in suburban, small town or even rural areas.

Hello, and welcome to the Renner Companies’ blog. Here, you can learn who we are, what we do, how we do it, what we’re doing now and some lessons we have learned along the way. We hope that this blog will be a valuable resource for you and your next project. If you have questions or would like to discuss something specific that hasn’t yet been covered here, please feel free to contact us directly. We would be happy to help you in any way possible.