Biophilic

4 Tips on Building and Selling Healthy Homes

4 Tips on Building and Selling Healthy Homes

UTOPIA on-demand webinar offers expert advice on healthy and clean homes from a public builder, a new-home design trends expert, and a healthy home tech maker.

5 Things Builders Need To Know About Selling Green Homes

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5 Things Builders Need To Know About Selling Healthy Homes

Download this free 10-page guide for marketing and selling green, energy-efficient, and sustainable homes.

UTOPIA recap of the 21 Trends for 2021 webinar by the New Home Trends Institute

21 Home Design Trends for 2021, Part 2

Housing market experts from the New Home Trends Institute share their top 21 home design trends for 2021.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a heightened awareness of the small spaces in our homes, and what we want in them, according to the 21 Trends for 2021 webinar, hosted by the New Home Trends Institute. Photo courtesy New Home Trends Institute

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21 Home Design Trends for 2021, Part 1

From smart home tech to personalized spaces to lifestyle-driven design, housing market experts from the New Home Trends Institute share the top 21 home design trends for 2021.

KB Home's Well Living Lab healthy home prototype; photo courtesy KB Home. UTOPIA exclusive research of homebuilders, 10 Most Common Healthy Home Features

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What Do Builders Actually Include in Healthy Homes?

New UTOPIA research explores what healthy home and clean home features end up as standard, upgrades, and overlooked among homebuilders today.

Echo Ridge Country Ledgestone from Cultured Stone. Photo: © Justin Krug

Best Practices To Maximize Biophilic Design

Here are three fundamental strategies to keep in mind when planning to incorporate elements of biophilic design into upcoming projects.

Biomorphic forms and patterns are a core principle of biophilic building design, according to author and expert Bill Browning. Pictured: The entry at Desert Rain, a custom home designed by Al Tozer that incorporates biophilic features throughout. Photo: Kayla McKenzie Photography

Use These 14 Important Patterns in Your Biophilic Homes

A pair of biophilic design experts outline the must-have features in biophilic homes.

Solar design and biophilic design are the backbone of the High Desert Butterfly, a two-level custom home in Bend, Ore. Designed by Al Tozer and built by Copperline Homes, with J.S. Brown Design as interior designer and Ashley + Vance Engineering as structural engineer, the home features expansive glass walls and doors to maximize daylight, views, and indoor-outdoor living spaces. Photo: Kayla McKenzie Photography

New Homes Invite Nature Inside With Biophilic Design

Big windows, natural materials, and outdoor connections create spaces that blend the best of indoor and outdoor living.