HGTV Green Home 2008 in Hilton Head, S.C.

HGTV Dream Home 2013 at Kiawah Island, S.C. A barrier island off the coast of historic Charleston, S.C., Kiawah is among the country's top golf destinations. Natural conservation is a key part of life here; homes are surrounded by lush native vegetation and marshes while beach access is a short walk or bicycle ride away. Designed in the classic Low Country style, our HGTV Dream House was sturdily constructed to resist the coastal components while seamlessly fitting into its natural environment.

HGTV Dream House 2013 in Kiawah Island, S.C. Designer Linda Woodrum allow the house's coastal environment affect this dreamy guest area's watery palette and decorative touches. Sea glass inspired the room's cheery turquoise color while the bedding and upholstery are in exactly the identical bright green which dots the marshes outside. Linda finished each bed with a vibrant pillow that nods to Kiawah's abundant butterfly population.

HGTV Urban Oasis 2012 in Miami Overlooking Biscayne Bay stair glass railing system . Miami Beach and the Port of Miami, the sweeping views from the airy living room are nothing short of magnificent. Designer Lindsay Pumpa picked glossy, non-toxic furnishings that reflect Miami's cosmopolitan aesthetic without contending with the area's million dollar views.

HGTV Urban Oasis 2012 in Miami Streamlined white cupboards extend from floor to ceiling to maximize storage room in the condominium's party-ready kitchen. A huge island separates the kitchen from living area and houses a useful wine fridge to make entertaining a snap. Luxurious Calacatta Gold marble wraps the island at a waterfall fashion for a classy, modern spin.

HGTV Green Home 2012 at Serenbe, Ga.. Only thirty minutes from the hustle and bustle of metropolitan Atlanta is located the projected sustainable community of Serenbe. It is a peaceful hamlet that promotes living in harmony with nature and also a return to small-town values. Designed in an updated Southern farmhouse design, our HGTV Green Home fits the community's relaxed lifestyle. Many standard farmhouse features are here: spacious front porch, stacked stone fireplace, wrought iron siding and a crimped metal roof. Also present are eco friendly elements such as locally-sourced substances, drought-resistant landscaping and a lot of Energy-Star windows that provide sweeping views of the natural surroundings while blocking harmful UV rays and solar heat gain.

HGTV Green Home 2012 at Serenbe, Ga.. The open-concept dining room and kitchen perfectly reflect the home's Modern farmhouse aesthetic. The rustic trestle table and seats are a farmhouse staple. Our variant, made entirely out of reclaimed shipping pallets, is as eco-friendly as it's practical. The nearby server boasts another reclaimed feature: a set of lamps created from classic foundry gears.

HGTV Green Home 2012 at Serenbe, Ga.. The bunkhouse-style kids' room features an amusement loft where pint-sized guests can kick back on beanbags while playing games or watching a film. A sturdy oak ladder offers easy access as a bright bucket and pulley keeps the attic stocked with snacks.

HGTV Dream Home 2012 at Park City, Utah Located in a grassy meadow with views of the Wasatch Mountains on one side and the Provo River on the opposite, the property's design team believed the structure should be as rugged as the surrounding landscape with all the expression of a farmhouse that had evolved over time from a tiny central structure into a rambling 4,000-square-foot modern retreat.

HGTV Dream House 2012 at Park City, Utah At the center of this huge home, the great area is designed to resemble an old rock structure -- maybe a century-old farmhouse or barn -- around which the remainder of the home has been assembled. Limestone walls and Douglas fir trusses, stained a weathered gray, give the room an appropriately aged look.

HGTV Dream House 2011 in Stowe, Vt.. The home's structure is motivated by the Adirondack Great Camps assembled in Northeastern New York during the latter half of the 19th century. These historic houses were artful combinations of Swiss chalet and Craftsman design components. Like the fantastic Camps, our 2011 Dream Home is constructed of locally sourced materials, which helps to additional tie it to the manner of construction and the surrounding rocky terrain.

HGTV Dream Home 2011 in Stowe, Vt.. Warm caramel upholstery and locally sourced wood accents, such as a white pine cornice and Appalachian-hardwood platform bed, pair with modern chrome and lighting accessories to create a classy space that combines lodge style with the house's contemporary aesthetic.

HGTV Dream Home 2011 in Stowe, Vt.. For the gathering space, designer Linda Woodrum chose a rich autumnal colour palette of crimson, gold and red to give the vaulted area a cozy feel even on the coldest winter days. Filled with lavish upholstered furniture, this is the ideal spot to relax by the fire when taking in a scenic view of the surrounding mountains.

HGTV Dream House 2011 in Stowe, Vt.. Up to eight guests can comfortably bed down in the property's ski dorm. Decorated in saturated shades, the area's rustic elements incorporate a knotty pine-planked ceiling and columns made from white cedar logs, felled on the house, to bring a little bit of the outside in.

HGTV Urban Oasis 2011 at Chicago Designer Vern Yip was inspired by famed Chicago-based architect Frank Lloyd Wright when picking a colour palette and design elements for your home's living room. The furnishings are a blend of items created by local artisans, architectural salvage and custom pieces, like the huge illuminated panel behind the couch that was created to resemble Wright's Tree of Life art glass.

HGTV Green Home 2011 in Denver The design of the eco-friendly home is inspired by the Prairie School style espoused by early 20th-century architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright. Flat roofs, broad overhanging eaves, locally sourced materials and flat lines that tie the home into the surrounding landscape are hallmarks of the Midwestern style. Native grasses, plants and shrubs help to blend the house into its surroundings, and the crops are drought-tolerant, so that they will require little upkeep.

HGTV Green Home 2011 in Denver Designer Linda Woodrum created this tranquil retreat using Prairie School fundamentals of hand craftsmanship, simplicity and a natural decorative. From the graphite drawing of winter pines over the bed by artist Anna Kaye to the huge headboard generated from reclaimed lumber, the master suite successfully combines luxury with a earthy color palette and sustainable method of design.

HGTV Urban Oasis 2010 in New York Although the high-rise residence is entirely new structure, designer Vern Yip admired NYC's architectural background by covering the bedroom feature wall in paneling that resembles masonry common from the city's 19th-century buildings. Flanking the mattress are salvaged Art Nouveau keystone pediments exhibited on custom-constructed hollow pedestals, which cleverly provide hidden storage on all sides of the bed.

HGTV Urban Oasis 2010 at Nyc Located in the heart of Manhattan's financial district, this 900-square-foot house is spacious by NYC standards, but incorporating all of the components that Vern desired meant creating spaces that can do double duty. The kitchen space works for food prep, dining, entertaining and as a home office. All the kitchen essentials are present, plus a multifunctional printer and full-size washer/dryer, which can be hidden away within the glossy wood cabinetry.

HGTV Green Home 2010 in Plymouth, Mass.. Resembling historical shingle-style cottages located throughout New England this home blends timeless good looks with modern energy-saving features such as solar panels on the home's observation tower along with a drip irrigation system. A reclaimed New England fieldstone chimney and created native trees and shrubs give the newly constructed home a sense of permanence.

HGTV Green Home 2010 at Plymouth, Mass.. Boasting a 360-degree view of the surrounding landscape, the tower area is ideal for watching summer sunsets or winter snowstorms. Designer Linda Woodrum made this space to be a bright and airy areas where the homeowner could watch and feel connected with nature. Rustic, shiplap pine boards, painted an ethereal sky blue, visually raise the ceiling and further improve the room's airy feeling.

HGTV Green Home 2010 in Plymouth, Mass.. The kitchen has a normal New England farmhouse feel, with Shaker-style closets, a tongue-and-groove ceiling and distressed hickory hardwood flooring. The quartz countertops and glass backsplash, both created mostly from recycled materials, are two brilliant and eco friendly options that give the kitchen a nautical feel.

HGTV Dream House 2010 at Sandia Park, N.M. Constructed from the pueblo revival style, this spacious house is perfectly suited to its desert environment. The design style originated centuries past with all the Pueblo Indians who used adobe, a type of mud mixed with straw, to build durable homes where interior temperatures remain a relatively even temperature even though scorching days and chilly nights. Located on three acres, carefully landscaped with indigenous plants and adjacent to protected natural preserves, the home boasts breathtaking desert views.

HGTV Dream House 2010 at Sandia Park, N.M. The house's great room is a mix of modern pared-down furnishings and Southwestern touches. Antique Native American baskets, books on Southwestern civilization along with a bowl filled with colorful chili peppers create a conversation-starting tablescape. Designer Linda Woodrum claims her method of making a vignette, "I keep taking off and adding things until I feel as that I have it."

HGTV Dream Home 2010 at Sandia Park, N.M. A traditional Southwestern colour palette of simmering red, trendy turquoise and gold wood tones tie the home's casita, or guest house, into the desert's spectacular sunsets. Underneath the bed, the colorful accent wall adds modern sparkle whilst supporting a great cause: The tiles have been manufactured by the girls of Southwest Creations Collaborative, an Albuquerque-based nonprofit organization.

HGTV Green Home 2009 in Port St. Lucie, Fla.. Modern Spanish-style architecture pairs with eco-friendly substances and drought-tolerant plants to create a waterfront home perfectly suited to the region's subtropical climate. Florida is an perfect place for a Spanish-style residence, as Spaniards were the first Europeans to claim this territory from the New World. Normal characteristics of this warm-climate design style are low-pitched red tile roofs, stucco exteriors and many times a campanile, or bell-tower-like arrangement, reminiscent of the original Catholic missions.

HGTV Green Home 2009 at Port St. Lucie, Fla.. Rather than fitting the home's interior design to the exterior's Spanish design, designer Linda Woodrum chose to highlight Florida's familiar tropical color palettes, and she started from the foyer, where fearless coral stripes encircle guests having "a concept of what to expect, what the home will be about," she explains. The lively palette and wide stripes are reminiscent of this beach-cabana style popular in 1950s Florida. Neutral ceramic flooring tiles do not divert from the eye focal wall and are easy to maintain in this sandy beachfront area.

HGTV Green Home 2009 in Port St. Lucie, Fla.. Bright and sunny, the couch pops with saturated citrus colours. The room's 4-foot-tall focus, Lord Turnbull's Ornithological Study of Red Bird, was originally destined for the dining room. But after seeing how well it worked against the chaises' kicky orange cloth, Linda chose to maintain the threesome together.

HGTV Dream Home 2009 at Sonoma, Calif.. A nostalgic mixture of formal Victorian and casual farmhouse styles, this house has a rustic appeal perfectly suited for its agricultural surroundings. The Victorian architectural attributes -- turned porch posts, spandrels, balusters and corbels -- are reminiscent of historical homes sprinkled throughout California's wine country.

HGTV Dream House 2009 in Sonoma, Calif.. Soft, neutral colors, glistening hardwood flooring, custom cabinets plus a deep sink-right-in slipper tub unite the best of Victorian elegance with farmhouse charm from the master bathroom. Designer Linda Woodrum chosen a creamy palette because: "It is very difficult to put on makeup or see the way you look at the mirror if you are surrounded with strong color. A subtle, neutral color scheme goes a very long way."

HGTV Dream Home 2008 at Islamorada, Fla.. Constructed to resemble Florida's Cracker style -- wood-frame homes constructed throughout the state by 19th-century settlers -- that the house's deep porches catch tropical breezes in the bay. Other Cracker impacts are evident, like the shuttered windows, metal roofing and a clerestory, or cupola, designed to vent interior heat. Early settlers created the Cracker style to deal with Florida's unrelenting hot and humid climate; these houses relied on ocean breezes to keep the people cool in the centuries prior to air conditioning. Cracker design is presently seeing a resurgence as Floridians embrace their state's architectural history and try to find energy efficient homebuilding methods.

HGTV Dream Home 2008 in Islamorada, Fla.. Combining British West Indies-style mahogany furnishings with beachy shell prints and splashes of hot pink, the guest bedroom has a zest perfectly in step with the house's tropical locale. The room's actual stunner is the intense lime-green wall color. "The color is my favourite area of the room; it's powerful but attractive, and it's balanced with the whites and blacks," says designer Linda Woodrum.

HGTV Green Home 2008 in Hilton Head, S.C. This low-country cottage features all of the hallmarks of this charming and quintessentially Southern coastal design: a broad hipped roof, shuttered windows, deep covered porches and dedicated outdoor living spaces that take full advantage of magnificent sunsets and coastal breezes.

HGTV Green Home 2008 at Hilton Head, S.C. Full of coastal colors and whimsical sea creatures, the kids' beachy bunk room makes maximum use of limited space by creating designated zones. A small corner beneath the eaves is an entertainment place where children can unwind while they watch movies, play video games or even read. Separated by a gingham drape, the sleeping area includes custom bunk beds with jumping dolphin headboards in a kid-pleasing colour of lime green.

HGTV Dream Home 2007 in Winter Park, Colo.. Surrounded by lush mountain beauty and situated in the base of a few of the very popular skiing trails in the region, this Swiss chalet-style house offers stunning views and also a home base for outdoor experiences year round. Normal features of chalet design -- gable roofs with broad eaves, exposed beams and brackets, balconies and enormous windows -- are evident.

HGTV Dream Home 2007 in Winter Park, Colo.. Rough-hewn wood beams are a character-adding architectural component above the lodge-style living room. Below, the area's cozy traditional furnishings, wide-plank hardwood flooring and stacked stone fireplace suit your house's relaxed, rustic texture to a tee.

HGTV Dream Home 2006 at Lake Lure, N.C. Designed to stick to the large mountain valley it straddles, this home is perfectly positioned to take in sweeping views of the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains and placid Lake Lure. Locally sourced materials were used to create the rambling lake cabin, which is Appalachian in style and uses many indigenous substances, including river rock, board-and-batten siding, hand-hewn logs and bark replacements. It borrows many design features in the rustic mountain homes typical from the remote areas of Appalachia.

HGTV Dream Home 2006 at Lake Lure, N.C. Serene colours and a relaxed cabin style make this guest space a dreamy escape. Designer Linda Woodrum decided to paint the vaulted ceiling the exact same blue as the skies outside to provide the room an airy, cloudlike feel. Handmade quilts and country-inspired cloths tie this room to its Appalachian locale.

HGTV Dream Home 2006 in Lake Lure, N.C. This is log cabin luxury at its finest. The soaring living room is sophisticated yet rustic, with colors that reflect the normal world outside. Designer Linda Woodrum admired the rich history of North Carolina's mountains by integrating regional pieces, like an antique apple cage for a coffee table, combined with locally crafted baskets, pottery and paintings. She brings the outside in by facing the built-in bookcases with divided branches and filling the area with pinecones and freshly cut branches.

HGTV Dream Home 2005 at Tyler, Texas Proving the old adage that everything is bigger in Texas, this massive lakefront home boasts over 6,000 square feet of luxury living area spread over the primary home and two-story dock house. A soaring 32-foot-high ceiling dominates the fantastic room, sunroom and kitchen, while a wealth of paned windows supplies a sweeping view of the lake.

HGTV Dream Home 2005 in Tyler, Texas At 780 square feet, the dock home is a luxurious guest house as opposed to somewhere to stash boating equipment. The little home is full with a well-appointed kitchen, living room, bath and dreamy bedroom, where whitewashed wood-plank walls unite with wraparound lake views to make this among the house's most romantic spaces.