Natural and Sustainable

When it comes to styling your home one thing should be kept in mind, going eco-friendly. Though it may seem difficult to go entirely eco-friendly within your home, it is really quite simple. Here are some ideas to help keep you on the right eco-path.

• Use prefab building resources can help reduce construction waste. If you find a building or home that has been torn down, try to find walls, windows or ever pieces of the old structure that can be incorporated into your new home before considering remodel or adding on.

• When you do consider adding onto your preexisting home, use infill as to not disturb the site too much during the construction of.

• For a better insulation ides, consider adding a living roof garden. It can help insulate your home, repurpose storm water runoff and it can also help reduce the heat that comes into your home during the summer. And installing an irrigation system can help reduce water use as well.

• Changing your items throughout your home to ones that are low-VOC, and formaldehyde free is a great step to becoming more eco-friendly. Consider paint as an option as well. LED bulbs also use less electricity than fluorescents or incandescent and they last twice as long too.

• Make your landscape consist of organically grown plants that are native to your own area and that are drought tolerant as well.

• Make your cabinets from reclaimed or Forest Stewardship Council-certified wood.

• Make your windows thermal and high -performance to help reduce heat loss in the winter season and heat gain in the summer season. And make your appliances Energy-Star approved and install water efficient fixtures as well.

• Consider replacing your kitchen countertops with Paperstone. This material is made from post-consumer recycled paper waste and pressed together to form amazing countertops.

*Natural and Sustainable Living Tip: Harvesting rainwater is really pretty simple. You can store reclaimed water in a gray water recycling system and reuse the water for irrigation and even to wash the car.