Articles tagged “Eco-Friendly Living Rooms”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

How to Go Green: Furniture By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 1 2010 Using eco-friendly furniture in your home or office can make a big difference in your impact on the planet and your health. In this Go Green Guide, get tips on eco-friendly furniture and find out where to get it. + READ MORE

5 Ways To Give Your Old Wooden Furniture A New Life By Craftster.org IN Home & Garden Mar 16 2010 Have an old wooden table in good shape, but in need of a makeover? Here are five great ideas for transforming old wooden furniture into great new pieces to brighten any room. + READ MORE

Old Cast-Iron Radiators Get a New Heating Life By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Jan 25 2010 It's becoming increasingly popular to see reclaimed and repurposed goods transformed into usable items for our homes. + READ MORE

What is the Future of Wood? The First Ever Eco-Wood Congress Will Answer that Question By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Jan 11 2010 The choices we make for the furnishings we purchase for our homes may seem straightforward, but as we dig deep into the origins of a new couch or table, there is a vast web of global and health issues that impact our planet. + READ MORE

Warming Trends: Room By Room DIY and BUY Energy-Efficient Solutions For A Warmer Home By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Jan 5 2010 As the cost of heating continues to rise, so has the awareness of just how much energy is seeping out of homes. Can we continue to enjoy the comforts of a warm home in an age when it is imperative that we consider energy issues first? + READ MORE

Would You Buy Your Baby a Rolex? Bringing Heirloom Design Concepts Home By Care2.com IN Home & Garden Oct 14 2009 Are we replacing old items too often? Can stuff be designed and built to be durable, beautiful and affordable enough to last generations? This is where the term "heirloom design" comes in. + READ MORE

Grow Your Own Fresh Air, Get 25% More Productive By Brian Merchant IN Home & Garden May 5 2009 If your apartment is anything like mine, then it can get a little stuffy in there, a little musty. A little dusty. We don't all have the luxury of having a well ventilated, efficient building to call our home. No, sometimes we get stuck with a bottom-floor room with only two windows. In which case, it's time we take matters into our own hands—and grow some fresh air. + READ MORE

Detox Your Home: A Comprehensive Room-by-Room Guide By Erin Hollingsworth IN Home & Garden Apr 2 2009 These days we're all aware of the prevalence of toxins in our lives. Some are largely unavoidable (if you live in a city, near a feedlot or factory or other outdoor pollutants) but many toxins, especially indoors, are within our control to regulate and mitigate. Our guide to detoxing your home goes room by room, giving you the whats and how-tos of detoxing and improving your indoor air quality, safety and eco-friendliness all at once. + READ MORE

How to Update Lamps and Chandeliers By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden Mar 2 2009 If you've been noticing the outdated lamp in your living room a lot lately, or you can't stand the finish on your dining room chandelier, you don't have to live with it. And you certainly don't have to head to the store to buy something new. The solution is simple: Update. + READ MORE

Pick the Best Flooring for Air Quality By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Feb 12 2009 We all know that certain types of flooring are better for the environment. But what about our air quality? What about the air that we ingest inside, where we spend 90 percent of our time? Next time you're picking a floor take into account what the flooring does to the air you breath. Check out these choices that both improve your standing with Mother Earth and clean up the air inside your home. + READ MORE

Deck Your Home Out in Green Art By Brian Merchant IN Home & Garden Feb 6 2009 Sick of the same old paintings and décor lining your home's walls?There's plenty more green art out there too?head to exhibitions, like William Stranger's Life Cycle of a Tree to get a sense for what other kinds of eco-friendly art is brewing on the horizon. + READ MORE

Do Like Deepak Chopra and Change Your Eco-Perception By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect Jan 30 2009 With this weekend marking one month since New Year's Day, it might be a good time to check-in and see if your green resolutions are still firm in place and in progress. Deepak Chopra offers some wise words of advice. + READ MORE

Sites We Love: Do It Yourself Decorating for Revamping your Green Palace By Megan Cohen IN Home & Garden Jan 23 2009 Take green into your own hands at our Site of the Week, Do It Yourself Decorating. You can get clear, clean, no-nonsense advice on everything from using color theory to wrangling window hardware. Learn how to turn your digs into your dream home with this exhaustive collection of the web's best decorating how-tos. + READ MORE

Make a Green Sanctuary, Inside By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Dec 23 2008 The New Year is a time for reflection, but it shouldn't be the only time. Reflection, meditation, and relaxation should be part of your everyday life. Here are my tips for creating a green relaxation sanctuar. + READ MORE

Prevent Holiday Season Fire the Green Way By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Dec 11 2008 The holiday season is a time for celebration, not massive emotional trauma. Having a fire isn't just bad for your mental state or your survival, it's also bad for the environment. The fire will burn and pollute the air. It can gut the house and incinerate everything you own. You can't repair the lump of goo that was once a couch and you can't repurpose a pile of ash. + READ MORE

Basic Steps to Restore and Reuse Old Furniture By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Nov 3 2008 That tattered old coffee table in my living room has been the pass down that won't ever die in my family. Purchased by my parents at a yard sale after they were married and then passed onto my brother when he left for college. Today it still stands strong in my living room—strong, but seriously scratched and heinously stained. + READ MORE

5 Reuses for: Orange Peels By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Sep 8 2008 Growing up, my mother always came up with creative ways to reuse household objects - ones that my father would, in typical fashion, refer to as "all junk." Her biggest cause was probably saving orange peels from getting dumped in the trash. Thanks to her eco-friendly instincts back in the day, I can now think of close to 50 different uses for an orange peel, instead of just throwing it away. Here are five of my favorites. + READ MORE

Tearing Down Walls By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Jul 30 2008 Humans like to separate things. We love it. The human mind is a classifying machine. Just look at Linnaeus. He classified the heck out of some animals. It is human nature to separate and to classify and to make judgments based on those separations and classifications. + READ MORE

Little, Little Boxes By Megan Cohen IN Home & Garden Jul 25 2008 Micro-dwellings reduce the residents' ecological footprints to the tiniest possible minimum. The next time you're at a moment when moving houses is an option, think about the eco-impact of heading to a new place that has one or two bedrooms fewer than your current residence, or giving up some inches and slimming down to... + READ MORE

Be Green: Work at Home By Natalie Cook IN Work & Connect Jul 21 2008 On Greenovate, Ryan Flegal converts a 2,300 square foot factory into his home and office space.Reduction of transportation pollution: When your commute is reduced to moving from the bedroom to the living room, you eliminate the need for cranking up your car. More efficient use of space: Using one space for multiple... + READ MORE