The NY Times has an article in Sunday’s paper on LEED certified residences –The New Trophy Home, Small and Ecological.
One of the sections in the article that gave me a chuckle was: But if a platinum ranking is a Prada label for some, for others, it is a prickly hair shirt. Try asking buyers used to conspicuous consumption (a 12,000-square-foot house) to embrace conspicuous nonconsumption (say, 2,400 square feet for a small family). My family of four lives in 950 square feet…
Leave a Reply