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Peach Pit Floors

The Peach Pit floor we spotted over at inhabitat falls into the category of super cool, if not yet super green......

A friend recently inquired about finding sources for reclaimed and sustainable woods. They weren't looking for lumber for their flooring in this case, but for an art project. But it did get us started...

Why It's Green: Bamboo

Bamboo -- it's everywhere. If it exists (take computer mouses and utensils for example) it can be made using bamboo. But, how green does that make it? Well, when it comes to computer mouses, we're ...

Cork Tile Revisited

Long before the days when we were part of the AT team, we sent in this question (Good Questions: A Cork Tile Dilemma) for a little help from the experts (aka AT readers). Being completely indecisive...

Good Question: Colorful Cork?

(Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first. Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject line to: green(at)apartmenttherapy(dot)com) In our new kitchen, we want t...

August Best Posts: A Staple-less Stapler, Marmoleum Click by Forbo, and Vivaterra

Check out staplers without staples, super green flooring, and all the good stuff at Vivaterra. [links after the jump] ...

What Makes It Green? Linoleum

First off, let's define the terms: we're talking about linoleum, not sheet vinyl, though the two terms are used interchangeably these days. Sheet vinyl is flooring made out of plastic: the same stuff...

Ecodomo Recycled Leather Tiles

In leather, fall colors really get rich and sumptuous. These recycled leather tiles by Ecodomo come in three textures and even more colors... posted originally from: AT:New York...

Bamboo: Is It Really As Eco As We Think?

We have been talking up the benefits of bamboo flooring for a while now. We were so into the fact that the easily grown wood (grass, actually) not only helped in stopping the depletion of forests, et ...

Marmoleum Click by Forbo

We fell in love with Marmoleum the first time we set foot on it in a (green) remodeled Craftsman in Ventura, Ca. It's so bright, and playful, and we'd never seen anything like it before. The linoleu...

Top 10: Cork Suppliers

OK, so you've decided a cork floor is for you. There are a ton of options: glue down or floating, natural or stained, polyurethane or wax. These decisions are much easier when you're familiar with th...

Rethinking: Beyond Polyurethane

In a past life, we've fielded a lot of questions on what the best kind of floor finish is, and it usually goes something like this: "should I use water- or oil-based polyurethane?" Occasionally, so...

Why It's Green: A Molecular Mystery

We love cork flooring. It's natural, renewable, and amazingly durable, and it looks great, too. If you're sometimes a bit of a klutz — or you throw what my mother euphemistically refers to as "very...

ModuTiles Cork Flooring by Mio

We once became so disgusted with some dark, ugly, dirty industrial carpeting in an apartment's entry that we finally just ripped it out one day. We ended up putting down cheap strips of seagrass m...