How To Create Eco-Friendly Interior Spaces
As sustainability ideas take the world by storm, it’s the ideal time to redecorate, creating environment-friendly zones around you. Yes, it may seem overwhelming and extremely difficult to replace harmful materials with replenishable ones, but we’re here to help you through it all. Be it a small or a big change you make towards healing the environment, it all counts and comes together to form great impact. So here are a few ways to create eco-friendly spaces around you!
The 3 R’s
‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’ is a motto we all heard in school, but did we really mindfully implement it? Probably not to the best of our abilities. Well, here’s your chance! Using sustainable materials to build an entire house, a cupboard or even just a desk is absolutely possible. Instead of buying brand new wood, opt for salvaged wood. People tend to look at reclaimed wood as old or used, but these panels often have the most beautiful natural grain, colour and durability.
Light It Up
Be observant and conscious whilst picking lighting fixtures of any kind. Lamps, chandeliers and other decorative hangings are often designed a few years prior to being showcased, and the light source in them cannot always be replaced with a sustainable or energy-saving bulb. So be sure to ask questions before you make a purchase and try putting an LED bulb to your chosen fixture!
Birthplace
Building a home on an untouched, exclusive plot of land? You’ve got more advantages than one. Take a stand to keep the age-old trees that grow on that space. Believe us, you don’t need to cut down trees to build your abode. If anything, your home will feel even more special if it’s built around the trees that have lived there well beyond our existence. Root your home surrounding the strongest roots of nature, and nature will continue to serve selflessly!
Attic Arena
If you have a sloping roof to your house, an unused terrace or the potential to build a platform of any kind up there, this one’s for you. Install some solar panels! Yes, solar panels are expensive and it’s challenging to evaluate when you would receive a return on the investment, but it’s extremely certain that you will receive it, sooner or later. The benefits of using a solar panel unit can be experienced in your day to day living, whether you choose to heat water in a kettle using solar-generated power or the doorbell to your abode is powered by the panels.
Leafy Dreams
We all need a little colour in our lives, and what better to brighten up things than with the gift of nature? Adorn your window panes with little herb plants, and reap the benefits of growing your own spices while adding a colour pop to your space. A few potted plants in varied corners can add a plethora of shades from its leaves, flowers and fruits. Look up your favourite tones, and we’re sure you’ll find a plant that closely matches it!
New Indoors
If there’s anything we’ve learned over the recent past, it’s that indoors can be the new outdoors. Anything you can do outside, you can find a way to do at home as well. So embrace the little spaces at home that you can use to add a little sunshine to your everyday life, be it by means of a patch of grass or a simple jute rug!
All these hacks not only help you contribute to the healing of our planet, but are also extremely economically viable in the long run. An investment today is interest tomorrow, so don’t lose today! Get going, for nature is calling!
