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60+ Home Decor Products and Tips – ALL ECO-FRIENDLY!

If you love your home, but you also love the planet, you're in luck! Here are more than sixty tips on home decor and home design ideas.

If you love your home, but you also love the planet, you’re in luck! I’ve gathered ten Of Houses and Trees posts offering more than sixty sustainable products, tips on home decor and home design ideas. Wondering how to decorate

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Minimalist Home Office Decor Shopping Guide

Creating a space that helps you feel peaceful and productive is the key to work-at-home success. And these home office decor items will do just that!

Who says you need an office to create an office space? Once upon a time, home offices took up a lot of room with oversized desks, clunky computers and massive filing cabinets. Thankfully, now all you really need is a

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Boho Bedroom Shopping Guide

Love the look of bohemian bedroom decor, but need a little guidance pulling it all together? Check out this boho bedroom shopping guide - featuring eco-conscious items from ethical marketplace Made Trade!

If you love cozy, eclectic bohemian bedroom decor, but need a little guidance in finding the perfect pieces to pull the look together – you’ve come to the right place! And the best part is that all the items featured

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House Construction Update | Our House in the Trees | Episode 5

Here's an update of our eco-friendly house construction process! Complete with LED bulbs, secondhand light fixtures and cork-backed flooring. It's a treehugger's dream come true!

Wanna learn all about LED lightbulbs? No?! Okay, how about secondhand light fixtures? Maybe…? Okay, do you want a see our STUNNING cork-backed laminate floors? Now that’s more like it! It’s time for episode five of Our House in Trees.

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Building an Eco-Friendly House | Our House in the Trees | Episode 4

Want to learn about sustainably-manufactured drywall, zero VOC paint and see some beautiful handmade light fixtures? This eco-friendly house is well on its way to being a happy green home!

As much fun as the foundation and framing stages are (for me at least), the REAL fun begins with the interior finishes. This is also the area where I feel – if I may toot my own horn – that

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Sustainable Building Materials | Our House in the Trees | Episode 3

The build of our sustainable home forges onward! Episode three covers the last half of August and includes me fawning over sustainable building materials like our gorgeous steel roof, while also trying to grapple with our decking and siding choices. Plus an appearance from oh-so-fluffy insulation made of recycled content!

The build of our sustainable home forges onward! In fact, so much happened in month three that I had to split it into two. Episode three covers the last half of August and includes me fawning over sustainable building materials

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Green Home Design | Our House in the Trees | Episode 2

Curious about green home design? Follow along as we build our sustainable home to get tips, inspiration - and to join in the fun!

While the second month of our sustainable home build still went relatively smooth, there were definitely some moments of high stress. The continuing uncooperative weather coupled with Devin spending nearly two weeks digging in services – from sunup to sundown

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5 Handmade Modern Farmhouse Light Fixtures

Looking for modern farmhouse light fixtures? Well, these five beauties are the real deal as they were all handmade!

Looking for modern farmhouse light fixtures? These five lights are a little bit rustic, a little bit industrial – and all beautiful. Reclaimed barn wood. Metal pipes. Exposed wires. Edison bulbs. Will the modern farmhouse decor style ever fall out

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Building a Sustainable Home | Our House in the Trees | Episode 1

Come along as we follow our dream of building a sustainable home on 40 acres of land in Central Alberta, Canada. In Episode 1, we deal with a ton of rain - but it doesn't dampen our spirits! Plus, I try my best to find eco-friendly finishes for our house in a part of the world not exactly known for eco-friendliness.

Ever dreamed of building a sustainable home? Well, I sure did. And now that dream is coming true! Because you know how it goes. You buy a piece of land and then eight years later… WHAM! You’re in full-on building

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9 Eco-Friendly Matte Black Bathroom Faucets

Black bathroom sink faucets are on trend. And thanks to brands like Moen, Delta and Vigo - you can save water in style with their low-flow, WaterSense labelled fixtures.

Black bathroom sink faucets are on trend and – thanks to these nine WaterSense certified faucets – you can be stylish and sustainable! So what makes a bathroom faucet eco-friendly? Well, as I mentioned in my post How to Design an

larissaswayze June 26, 2019April 8, 2021 Sustainable Design, Sustainable Products 2 Comments Read more
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