Building Resources
Asheville Tileworks360 Kenilworth Rd, Asheville
828-259-9050
brwm.org/ashevilletileworks
Does your kitchen need a little pop? Spice it up with a dash of colorful artisan tiles. Want to beautify your bathroom but tired of seashell hand soaps? Escape to natural tiles with custom designs made to ornament your green lifestyle. Enrich your eco-friendly home with sustainable tiles from Asheville Tileworks. Each handcrafted tile begins as locally sourced clay. Artisan Diana Gillespie then expertly details each tile with your unique home in mind. Be prepared to fall in love with your home all over again.
BDWG Concrete
Studio Inc.
Boone 828-266-1599
Black Mountain 828-989-3274
www.bdwgconcretestudio.com
Since 1997, BDWG has been producing high quality concrete architectural elements right here in WNC. On the leading edge of green technologies, BDWG employs a “zero waste” manufacturing process that carefully monitors water usage, uses locally sourced materials and ensures recycled content. Utilizing recycled materials and implementing a lightweight GFRC (glass fiber reinforced concrete) mix has allowed them to reduce their carbon footprint, even as their production has increased. The experience of their staff is unmatched and no detail is overlooked. Depend on local sustainable concrete from BDWG.
Build It Naturally
76 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville
828-254-2668
builditnaturally.com
Build It Naturally specializes in natural, non-toxic, recycled and renewable building and interior design elements. Their goal is to bring sustainability and healthy living indoors by offering healthy, safe, durable, long-lasting, and green building materials. Build It Naturally provides a variety of services to support your “green” building project from start to finish. Paint, flooring, countertops, solar products and recycled wood are just a few of the many green products.
Expressions in Design
30 Ben Lippen School Road
Crest Mountain, Asheville
828-712-3801
expressionsindesignnc.com
Expressions in Design has the recipe for a healthy built home. They take equal parts imagination, craftsmanship and dedication to excellence, and blend it with the goals and dreams of the homeowner. Using US Green Building products as the base for a custom kitchen, they use creative custom design features to complement the vision. At their design center at Crest Mountain, clients can view a variety of woods, hardware and finishes. Over the years, they have developed strong partnerships with professionals in interior design, ornamental metal works and custom woodworking professionals.
Forest Millwork
93 Thompson Street, Asheville
828-251-5264
forestmillwork.com
Forest Millwork specializes in custom architectural millwork, as well as the design, provision and installation of both in-house custom manufactured cabinets and factory built cabinetry. They take great pride in meeting commercial and residential customers specifications with quality workmanship, cutting edge design and professional installation and service, Forest Millwork also offers a multitude of environmentally friendly and sustainable materials options. You provide the dreams and Forest Millwork will bring them home.
Salon Blue Ridge
518 S. Allen Road, Flat Rock
828-696-1934
salonblueridge.com
Salon Blue Ridge is Western North Carolina’s only complete source for kitchen and bath products and superior product design. Their stunning 7,500-square-foot showroom allows you to experience a wide variety of designs, finishes, and green options. All of the brands at Salon Blue Ridge are specifically chosen for their overall quality and commitment to sustainability. These products include reclaimed wood flooring, recycled tile and countertops, Noritz tankless hot water heaters, dual flush toilets and low flow showerheads. Salon Blue Ridge can help you reduce your carbon footprint, beautifully.
Sun Mountain Doors
15 Design Avenue, Fletcher
828-684-6820
sunmountaindoor.com
At Sun Mountain Door, you can choose from over 20 varieties of wood to match your home and your sense of style. Their custom designed wooden door glass is heat-treated and fully tempered, and the glass in all exterior doors is insulated: a hermetically sealed combination of two or more lites of glass separated by a dry airspace. IG glass improves thermal performance, significantly reducing heating and air conditioning costs and reducing interior condensation. And Sun Mountain Doors can size the area to accommodate heirloom glass.
Whole Log Lumber Company
688 Blueberry Farm Road, Zirconia
828-697-0357
wholeloglumber.com
Supplying antique and reclaimed wood flooring to quality conscious buyers since 1984, Whole Log Lumber is Western North Carolina’s oldest purveyor of fine artisan wood floors and reclaimed wood interiors. Their 25 years of experience in species identification and reclaimed materials management and a day-in, day-out commitment to quality and authenticity provides discriminating customers with sustainable confidence in the inherent value of these reclaimed natural resources. They specialize in solid and engineered floors, mantels, stairs, doors and cabinet components.
