365 days to be greener

This week has seen many opporunties for recycling and re-using stuff that would otherwise have gone to landfill.
We were lucky enough to catch a big set of Ikea shelves on freecycle so now my office looks less like an explosion in a clothes factory and more like somewhere that stock is neatly stored and easily [...]

I have posted about this before but it is important so I will do again.
It is still possible to get subsidised cavity wall insulation for your home. We live in a three bed detached chalet bungalow and we are having the whole house done for £95.00 in a few weeks time courtesy of a company [...]

This is the stuff we have put in heat the new extension. It has the profile of a skirting board, is plumbed in just like a radiator and comes complete with dummy lengths so you can make the whole room look the same even if the whole room does not need heated skirting boards (E.g on the walls around doors [...]

After much deliberating we went for marmoleum in the kitchen.
It’s a natural product made from linseed oil, wood flour, rosin, limestone and jute. Unlike vinyl flooring that has just a thin colour layer, Marmoleum flooring has a top layer of at least 2mm thickness with colour that goes all the way through making it a durable and [...]

We have to paint our kitchen now the plaster is dry….Its not a task I was looking forward to made all the worse by the smell and the waste. If our previous attempts are anything to go by there will be broken rollers, solid paint brushes and wrecked trays…none of which help me in my quest for greenness.
At least it [...]

I love a bit of wood and I especially love curly wood….

From ecocentric, this lampshade is made from steam bent ash from sustainable sources but very often, steam bent wood is reclaimed from the offcuts of ship building.
The price tag is a bit steep for me at over £200.00 but I think it is a [...]

In getting all swept up in my newly-discovered-Mahoosive-carbon-footprint, I kind of lost track of the primary objective of all this which was to reduce our plastic consumption as well….
Here is a highly recommended DIY merchant that specialises in eco friendly soutions to problems such as loft insualtion.
Ecomerchant
Never thought I would see the day when I was excited about guttering and membranes…..

Following on from my previous post about the help that is out there to reduce your carbon footprint and save yourself some cash in the process, here are some links about cavity wall insulation….
The grants that are available and why…
Energy Saving Trust
The next one is an example of an installer that is National and does reductions if you are already [...]

I have been trying to find some curtain fabric for months now.
I’m not fussy, I just know exactly what I want and I can’t find it anywhere.
(Its a fine line between perfectionism and fussiness)
Anyway, I wasn’t applying any green thinking to this process and completely missed a trick. There are some properly lovely vintage fabric [...]

Found this website and thought it was worth a look- Winters Moon

Aside from being a little bit local which we always approve of – they also only deal in reclaimed, restored and just-plain-great-quality-vintage items.
Much to my husband’s annoyance I will probably be kitting out our new kitchen-diner in much this style. All I will need [...]