Mainstream Green Home

The Mainstream Green Home, in Raleigh, North Carolina, is an environmentally friendly demonstration home that is designed to look and feel like a traditional home while using less energy, conserving more water, and providing a healthier living environment. Watch a YouTube about the unique features of the home:



According to Cherokee, the home's builder, The Green Home was designed to showcase the appeal of green building to the average American homebuyer in two ways: first, by showing that living green improves our quality of life in a number of ways, and then by demonstrating the new products and technological innovations that are making sustainable living more attractive and feasible than ever before.

Some green features include recycled crushed mother-of-pearl countertops, cork flooring, formaldehyde-free cabinetry, salvaged wood, in-home recycling and during the construction period they are aiming to recycle 75% of all demolition and construction waste.