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  • 5 Tips for Green Furniture Refinishing

    5 Tips for Green Furniture Refinishing
    Naturally Savvy

    Whether you inherited it, picked it up at a secondhand store, or rescued a landfill-bound treasure, saving a piece of furniture from the landfill is an excellent way to go green in your home, but the chemicals, paints, and varnishes many people use for refinishing are often anything but green. Often loaded with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other chemicals, many products arent just bad ...

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  • 5 Chic Ways to Decorate with Driftwood

    5 Chic Ways to Decorate with Driftwood
    Naturally Savvy

    Nothing says rustic summer decor like driftwood; now that its fall, keep that feel alive with some slick driftwood decor ideas. Whether you stumble upon small, water-worn sticks or a large piece of wood smoothed by nature, driftwood that washes ashore can be used in a variety of beautiful ways in your home. Candle Holder Glue together pieces of thin driftwood sticks to create a log cabi...

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  • Greener Living: Driveway Sealing & Repaving

    Greener Living: Driveway Sealing & Repaving
    Cara Smusiak

    Summer is swiftly approaching, and you know what that means: it's construction and home improvement season. Across America, homeowners will be repaving or adding a layer of tar to their asphalt, but before you call up your local driveway builder, consider investing in a greener option. Asphalt is complex, petroleum-based mix of chemicals, the exact composition of which varies by manufacturer...

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  • Get an Energy Audit Before Buying a New Home

    Get an Energy Audit Before Buying a New Home
    Naturally Savvy

    Its that time of year again: For sale signs are cropping up in neighborhood everywhere. Most potential home buyers wouldnt dream of purchasing a property without getting a home inspection to look for structural problems, water damage, and other potentially costly issues. But few people consider the energy efficiency of a home, and an inefficient home can cost you a lot of money over the years. ...

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  • Get Stuffed! Make Pillows with Upcycled Materials

    Get Stuffed! Make Pillows with Upcycled Materials
    Cara Smusiak

    Im a big fan of the unique and unexpected in home decor. Ive written about using a shoe as sculpture, clipboards as art hangers, and stacks of books as a bedside table. But pillows hold a special place in my comfort-loving soul. Making one-of-a-kind pillows is simple and it presents plenty of opportunity to upcycle just about any textile. All you need is a little stuffing (or old t-shirts,...

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  • Make a Coat Rack from an Old Kitchen Cabinet

    Make a Coat Rack from an Old Kitchen Cabinet
    Cara Smusiak

    If youre remodeling the kitchen or just putting new cabinets in, there are plenty of ways to reuse your old cabinetry in other parts of the home. Ive written about reusing cabinets for storage solutions in other parts of the house, but you can also upcycle bits and pieces of your kitchen in other ways. Case in point: A faux drawer facing and some hardware make a great mounted coat hook unit. ...

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  • Country-Inspired Green Modular Homes

    Country-Inspired Green Modular Homes
    Cara Smusiak

    Country Living magazine has partnered with green homebuilder New World Home to develop a line of LEED-certified modular homes. The historically inspired homes feature the magazines touch: Country Living editors have hand-selected details inside and out, and signature elements include open floor plans, porches, fireplaces, and oversized windows. Modular homes are a hit among environmentally c...

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  • Transform Wasted Space Into Something Great

    Transform Wasted Space Into Something Great
    Cara Smusiak

    Living in a smaller space is better for the environment. You use less energy for climate control, and most people who live in small spaces tend to seriously think about every purchase (Where will I put this? is a constant question.) If you live in a small space, you know all about making the most of every square inch. Storage is always at a premium, but have you really taken a look around ...

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  • Go Green: Lighting

    Go Green: Lighting
    Naturally Savvy

    The light bulb has been around for well over a hundred years, but newer technologies mean the incandescent bulb is quickly going the way of the dinosaur. Incandescent light bulbs are highly inefficient: They require a lot of energy, and most of that energy doesn't go to producing light—it ends up producing heat. In the summer, homes and offices that use a lot of incandescent lighting will ha...

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  • Decorate Baby's Nursery with Storybook Pages

    Decorate Baby's Nursery with Storybook Pages
    Cara Smusiak

    Like most people in their mid-twenties, I'm slowly being surrounded by babies. Friends, cousins, and co-workers have done a bang-up job of procreating in recent months, and all these babies mean a lot of thought about gifts and nurseries and baby-proofing. I always stick a book or two in with baby shower gifts (you can never start them too young!), and as I've poured over reprints of Wi...

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