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ENERGY STAR Qualified Home. First in B.C.!

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It’s offi­cial. After months of hard work and per­sis­tence, we’ve received the news that our new Man­dala Home, the Chose-Ross res­i­dence, owned by the pres­i­dent of Man­dala Homes, Lars Chose and part­ner Rachel Ross, built by Man­dala Homes is the first ENERGY STAR qual­i­fied home in B.C.!

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Green Home Solutions

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Nat­ural Home

Our homes should be our safe sanc­tu­ar­ies. They should nur­ture our well being on all lev­els. But the mod­ern home often does not.

Increas­ing num­bers of peo­ple are devel­op­ing ill­nesses like envi­ron­men­tal aller­gies, sick-building syn­drome and mul­ti­ple chem­i­cal sen­si­tiv­ity due to chem­i­cal and bio­log­i­cal tox­ins found inside mod­ern homes.

Until about 25 years ago, indoor air pol­lu­tion was  rare. Con­tinue read­ing →