Apartment Therapy Tagged: flooring

The Scoop on Radiant Floor Heat

We are renting a home with hydronic radiant floor heat and recently started it up for the season. It's not a small decision, as the system is slow to heat up and slower to cool down. So, even though...

100% Design London Showcases Sustainable Designs

The 100% Design London showcase, the UK's leading architecture and design event, has just concluded and sustainable designs were as pervasive as ever. Some of the finds from this year's event inclu...

Best New Green Materials for Your Interior

New for 2009, these innovative interior building products are not only eco-friendly, but also better-performing and more attractive that those of last year. See 7 great new green products after the ju...

Greener Carpet Made from Corn by Mohawk

There are a couple new lines of carpet from Mohawk are easier to clean (with just water and no harsh chemicals), require 30 percent less energy to make and last just as long. One is made from recycled...

Carpet America Recovery Effort

As you may recall, we really, really don't like carpet. We kind of loathe it even though we admit that sometimes it serves a purpose and is the appropriate flooring choice for certain rooms....

TerraMai: Reclaimed Woods From Around the World

TerraMai is a great resource for reclaimed woods – they source a variety of places such as railway ties, warehouses, mills, barns, wine barrels, tanks any other previously used wood that may be salv...

TING Vintage Belt Floor Mat

Remember TING? They're the ones who make those cool pillows and hammocks out of seat belts. Well, we have no place for a hammock, but we did just come across this floor mat. It's a little pricey, ...

Some Smith & Fong Bamboo to be FSC Certified

Bamboo is one of those products about which it's easy to make assumptions. It's easy to assume bamboo is green. It's easy to assume bamboo is renewable. It's easy to assume that because it's natura...

Peach Pit Floors

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

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 ...

re-nest July 2007: Good Questions

Good Questions: Where Do I Find a Good (looking) Green Bed? In July, we were just getting started and we were thrilled to see so many questions in our inbox. Here are a few of the best! [links af...