Mother Earth is now vulnerable as a child. Environmental hazards, primarily pollution and improper waste disposal, and global warming have put the planet we call our home at great peril. Things aren't getting better either. With each day, the environment is getting deeper and deeper in its rubble. It is just right and humane to do our share in protecting the environment. Reusing and recycling are fast becoming popular as more and more people are becoming aware of their importance. Everything starts at home in doing one's share. Let us then consider an eco-friendly home, more popularly coined as "green home".
A good way to start off is to look for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or any other appropriate environmentally safe mark on furniture you intend to buy. Buying an item with this mark means that the materials used to make this product have either been recycled or "upcycled". Upcycled refers to products made from materials that would otherwise have been discarded during the manufacturing process. Ideas here include lampshades made from recycled paper, chairs made from left-over cork or wood, containers made from rubber that were used during the manufacturing of shoes.
It sure isn't easy to hoard environment-friendly products when majority of what we see are goods made from high quality mahogany, molave and narra timber. If we would place these alongside the recycled and upcycled furnishings, surely, the new stuff will kick the used ones out into space. So how do you overcome this?
Wise and proactive thinking, that's how. Products that are made of used materials means saving a couple more trees from dying. Buying eco-friendly products increase their potential and popularity. Subsequently, the demand for manufacturers to create more of these goods increase. You may only be one person, but you count. If you share this idea with your family members and friends, and they in turn pass the news to their own social circles, the demand will further increase and sooner hopefully, no more trees will be cut down to produce woods, lumber and paper. Furthermore, no more synthetic materials will be added to the humongous non-biodegradable pile hazardously stored in our planet.
Perhaps you're now squirming in your seat, stricken with guilt yet still hesitant to buy this "green home" idea. You do want to make a difference don't you? However you're thinking that not all FSC marked products go well with your home decors or furniture, and that you would rather scout the bigger market of brand new stuff. So what do you do?
Ever heard of a transitional rug? It's a normal area rug that has the sole purpose of ensuring that all the different items and ideas in a room blend in together smoothly. It will usually contain elements of both or all of the ideas or motifs of your decoration, finished off with a touch of contemporary design to bring everything together. Rugs like these can be used as focal points or just as a practicality to aid in the ambiance of the room in question.
But perhaps one of the best things about a transitional area rug is that it can be bought both new and second hand without having to worry about the effect it might have on the environment - this is of course only the case with those made out of wool. Why wool? Quite simply because the sheep it belonged to will have a fine new fleece in no time, which means that the environment wasn't harmed in any way during the making of your transitional rug. Choosing the correct rug will mean that your room will be a seamless work of art where new and old has been used together.
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