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KITCHEN CABINETS
Eco friendly wood cabinets are easier than ever to find . Bamboo is a wildly popular material for kitchen cabinets. Though not truly a wood – it’s a grass plant – it does have the look, feel and strength of wood. Salvaged wood cabinets are seeing a renaissance of sorts. Homeowners looking to add [...]
BATHROOM CABINETRY
As is the case with eco kitchen design, there are numerous wonderful, eco friendly cabinetry options for the bathroom. Vanity Flair, a Canton, Georgia manufacturer of bathroom furniture, has crafted an environmentally friendly vanity and medicine cabinet made from Bamboo plywood (Plyboo). The contemporary styled Avalon bathroom vanity (shown below) provides stylish storage in [...]
Good Housekeeping’s Green House
5 Eco Friendly Paints
10 Eco Friendly Flooring Options
5 Best Eco Friendly Luxury Linens and Bedding
Eco Friendly Latex Mattresses
Salvaged Woods: History Made Anew
Eco Friendly Candles
Eco Friendly Bath Design
Eco-Friendly Kitchen Design
Good Housekeeping Green Seal of Approval
Top 5 Eco Friendly Chairs: Green Design Takes A Fashionable Seat
Top 12 Stylish Eco-Friendly Rugs – 2009
Organic Blankets: Wrapped [...]
Green House Master Bath
Green House Parlor Floor Wet Bar
Green House Kitchen
For it’s third annual “Green House” program Good Housekeeping has given an old, tired brownstone an eco-friendly renovation. This time Good Housekeeping teamed up with “LEED for Homes” an environmentally friendly certification program from the U.S. Green Building Council. The brownstone was renovated in the [...]
Sherwin Williams Harmony (sherwin-williams.com)
Benjamin Moore Natura (benjaminmoore.com)
Lowes Olympic (lowes.com)
Certa Pro (certapro.com)
Green Planet Paints (greenplanetpaints.com)
Cork
Bamboo
Salvaged Woods
Recycled Glass
Recycled Nylon
Wool
Cotton
Sisal
Sea Grass
Silk
Luxury organic bedding made The Decorating Diva.com’s “Hot 10 Home Decor Trends for 2009”. In that trend report we highlighted the fact that sleeping Green meant silken comfort as organic bedding manufacturers introduced Earth friendly linens that felt and had the appearance of high-end silks – from designers like Anna Sova who’s beautiful eco-bedding collection [...]
Natural Latex, a product of the rubber tree, is organic, renewable and sustainable. Contains no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC). VOCs can off-gas and lead to health issues in those with a predilection to chemical sensitivities.
A unique characteristic of a natural Latex mattress is its ability to spring back to form and to provide an extraordinary [...]
Inherent in the use of reclaimed woods is the potential to protect the Earth from further deforestation, however that’s not the only reason to consider salvaged wood products for your home or next remodeling project. Salvaging woods and other materials from old buildings destined for demolition is clearly a labor of love by those who [...]
Soy candles reign supreme in the world of eco friendly candles. Soy is a renewable and sustainable resource, biodegradable, water soluble , clean burning and non-toxic. Soy wax candles last longer than their less eco-friendly counterparts, the paraffin wax candle, since they burn at lower temperatures.
KOBO Anisette Orange Pure Soy Candle – hand poured soy [...]
