Design Solutions is a full service residential and commercial design-build firm specializing in sustainable design and remodeling. Since 2005, we have completed four “green” residential remodels and incorporated green features into dozens of others. We recently designed and built the first sustainable nail spa in San Francisco, with green finishes including Kirei Board, 3Form resin panels and Plyboo floors. We are Certified Green Building Professionals (CGBP) and a dealer of certified green cabinets and countertops. We are affiliated with the U.S. Green Building Council, Build It Green, the Green Remodelers Guild, and Co-op America.

Our green design approach incorporates natural and alternative materials as well as state of the art technology, like photovoltaic solar roofs or innovative mechanical systems. We are familiar with green roofs and gray water systems and have strong expertise in straw bale construction, with over fifty such projects realized. Our firm applies integrated design principles to achieve ecological benefits and as a means of creating healthy and beautiful environments.  As LEED Accredited Professionals we can help you to comply with this green building standard. We know how to balance function, buildability and green building approaches, and we work closely with our clients so they can reach their goals while reducing the environmental impact.

Specializing in eco-interiors for nearly ten years, at least one green aspect has been integrated into every residential remodel. More recently, exclusively green projects, such as the kitchen remodel shown in the case studies tab, have been completed. Corser Design has been involved in five green residential remodeling projects in the past year.

Green Fusion Design Center’s products possess, at a minimum, at least one of the following attributes: recycled, biodegradable, organic, natural, energy efficient, water efficient, exceptionally durable, non-toxic, locally produced, sustainably harvested, and supportive of the global community’s health and well being.

As a new company, we have just begun to supply our community with green building and lifestyle products.  Our staff of dedicated green professionals includes a LEED AP on staff, an experienced green materials specifier, and a Green Interior Designer on site.  Our business is affiliated with the USGBC-NCC.

Mary Cordaro is the president and Founder of H3Environmental, Corp. specializing in healthy bedroom products, resources for diagnosing and solving “sick building syndrome”, and education. She synthesizes the fields of Bau-Biologie, Building Science, and green building with an overlay of the low consumption, ecological lifestyle.

Cordaro has been working in the field of healthy, ecological building since 1989 having started by extensively researching to correct problems in her own home. She then decided to use this knowledge to help her clients, many of whom, like herself, are either sensitive to conventional building and interior materials, or concerned about the manufacturing, use and disposal of materials and their effect on human and planetary health.

Global Green USA’s Green Building Resource Center provides free design advice and information about environmentally-friendly building products and strategies.