We're sharing questions & answers from the industry pros at the USGBC's Green Home Guide!
Q: Anybody install radiant heating for the kitchen or bathroom floor? Really hard to find information about cost savings and how radiant heating can impact your house bill. Is it worth it? Can it also cool your home? How much did it cost and where can I find the product?
Sent by Justin
Looking for a way to significantly reduce packaging waste? A visit to your local bulk bin offers this, plus the opportunity to save money, to buy only what you need, and to try new foods with minimal investment. Here's how to go about scooping and and storing…
Buy second hand and keep stuff alive longer! Lots of great furniture finds in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and Washington DC in today's PM Scavenger.
Love the Re-Nest Green Tours? Want to join our team and share great homes from your area? Re-Nest is putting out a special call for Green House Tour Contributors! If you've got a excellent eye for sustainable design and photography, and good scouting skills, read on!
It doesn't take a lot to significantly cut down on waste in the kitchen. We've made a few changes in our habits, and, suddenly, hardly anything is going into the trash. It feels good to know we're sending very little to the landfill.
We often hear people complain that they're no good at thrift store shopping—they have an aversion to dirt, no patience, or just bad luck. The truth is that anyone can be a good thrifter if they keep an open mind. It's as simple as recognizing when an object needs a good cleaning, a coat of paint, or even just a new context. Here are a few common items to keep an eye out for the next time you're at the thrift store.
We love Mason jars. We use them for all sorts of things around the kitchen. So when we first saw the prototypes for these universal lids that add even more functionality to our Mason jars, and to cleaned-out jelly and tomato sauce jars too, we were pretty impressed. Well, that prototype is now in production and for sale.
Welcome to February, and a month of Home Hacks: Smart How Tos for Great Homes. We're going to be focusing on How To all month. What do you want to learn this month? What would you like to get done around the home, and how can we help?
We would love your input on tutorials and How To posts. When it comes to green and sustainable projects, and creating a happier, healthier home, is there anything you would like learn? Small or big, simple or complex, tell us here, and we'll do our best to give you great tutorials on those topics this month.
Aaron at AT:Boston highlighted this super cool DIY workspace today made almost entirely of recycled materials, including wood salvaged from a demolished house. The workspace was built as an extension to the owner's home, and the combination of skylights, white walls and large windows overlooking the back garden helped to unify the interior space with the addition.
We just came across designer Catia Da Silvia by way of a post over at Treehugger. Now we're smitten. Her collection of furniture&mdash"Salvage Montage: A Journey into a Discarded World"—makes us want to pick up a hammer and nail.
There's nothing we like better than seeing something creatively repurposed into something else—particularly if that 'something else' is storage-related. Here are some great ideas to get your creative juices flowing, including a drum shell turned into an ottoman and an old window shutter upcycled into a mail carrier…
Remember this great Athropologie inspired Ikea Hacked Bedside Table? Well it was one of our favorite transformations and we've been checking out the designer Britt McMaster's crafty blog Cucumbersome ever since. In light of our Home Hacks month, we'd thought we'd introduce you to the fun website and highlight a few of our favorite DIYs and tutorials.
This lovely ceramics collection by Dutch designers Atelier NL was recently awarded the Re:Vision Design Award by Modern Painters magazine. The hand-crafted collection is called "Drawn from Clay," and the unique feature of the collection is that each piece was made from a specific plot of soil taken from a variety of farms across a 460 square kilometer in the Noordoostpolder region of the Netherlands.
Name: Method Laundry Detergent in Peony Blossom
Price: $15 for 50 loads, $8 for 25
Rating: Recommend
I'm a sucker for greener packaging so when I saw Method's new super concentrated plant-based laundry detergent in a 50% recycled plastic bottle, I had to try it out. Last week I was fortunate enough to find the new Method in the hardware store and was immediately impressed by the small size and look of the bottle.
Yesterday we had friends over to watch "the game" and we invited them to bring their kids. Since we didn't expect the kids to be able to sit still during the whole game, we set up our dining room table with things to keep them busy, including these eco-friendly and easy-to-whip-up finger paints.
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