If beauty is as beauty does then Rocio Romero's LV home series are certainly among the most beautiful homes anywhere. Not only are they beautiful to look at, capturing a bright and open modern style, but they are also pretty beautiful to the environment as well.

Rocio Romero recently shared with us how the LV home series is environmentally friendly and how it offers clients an extremely high level of flexibility to employ green technologies at many different levels of their project. Here is what Rocio Romero said about the green side of the LV home series:

• We respect our environment by using pre-fabricated systems that minimize consumed resources.

• We design our homes to be energy efficient by creating deeper wall and roof cavities which allow us to over-insulate and achieve remarkable R-values. The LV home has (2) 6" walls which, if batt insulation is installed, can achieve R-38. Most homes have R-14 to R-19 as their wall R-value, so we are more than double the typical R-value.

• Our designs offer excellent lighting and ventilation making your home a healthy and comfortable environment.

• We flat pack our products to minimize the space required for shipping thereby using less fuel and creating fewer truck emissions.

• We have designed homes for clients that employ solar power so that they consume less grid energy.

• We also have designed green heating and cooling systems such as radiant heating and swamp coolers that offer cleaner air to the home environment as well as consume less energy.

• An excellent example of a project that employed interior finish selections designed to optimize and encourage a green living environment is Ethan and Heidi's Arkansas LVL - you can read all about their house on their blog, Secret Fortress Hideout.

Here is a summary of the environmentally friendly materials used in their Arkansas LVL project:

• passive-solar home orientation on shaded lot
• high-efficiency multi-stage heat pump
• soy-based spray insulation on interior walls
• formaldehyde-free bat fiberglass insulation in faux walls
• VOC-free interior paint
• formaldehyde-free strand bamboo flooring
• natural formaldehyde-free cork flooring
• paperStone 100% post-consumer recycled paper counter tops
• low-e glass
• Energy Star appliances
• high-efficiency Rais wood stove
• insulated concrete form foundation walls for crawlspace