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79Eco-Friendly Paints: Low-VOC Options for the Environment
Conventional paint has never had a good reputation. It’s smelly, messy, old versions contained lead of all things and over the past decade it’s been tagged as a major indoor air pollutant. Today, thanks to consumer demand for healthier paints that perform, manufacturers are offering low-VOC options that are better people and the environment.
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62How to Colorwash Walls as Cheaply as Possible!
To colorwash walls as cheaply as possible start with quality paint...and then water it down. That's it! You are now going to extend your paint about 3 times. I used a free 2 oz. paint sample to do the two...
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78Choosing Sustainable Kitchen Cabinets
I find cabinetmakers to be among the most skilled and engaged tradespeople. In the green building industry this quality is elevated with creative and innovative techniques for harvesting and crafting wood...
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82Five Ways to Make Your Kitchen Environmentally Friendly
1. Choose renewable floor and countertop materials. Typical floor and countertop materials (wood, granite, marble) are non-renewable, which means, basically, once they're been removed from the earth to be made...
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55Greening Your Kitchen
The first home I purchased was a small condo with a tiny kitchen. Despite being the most space limited room in the house it always filled up with visitors who strolled right past comfy couches only to lean against ugly countertops. The reality is that people spend a lot of time indoors and most of our waking hours in the kitchen so the greener it is the better.
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56Eco-Homes -- Unconventional Innovations
With the building resources available today, as well as a struggling economy, it is no wonder that unconventional, sustainable and less expensive housing options are beginning to make a grand appearance....
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60Environmentally Friendly Paint
I've recently moved into a fixer-upper home and my latest renovation project is the little 2nd bathroom on the main floor. As I dithered over my paint colour choices, I started thinking about what kind of...
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68Refinishing Floors with Health in Mind
I come from a long-line of do-it-yourselfers and among the bevy of home improvement experiments we’ve refined with practice is floor refinishing. From experience, I can tell you that there are...
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