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Down to the Bones
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My mother acclimated FSC certified lumber; FSC stands for Forest Stewardship Council. FSC respects aboriginal bodies active on the land. Barge producers certified by FSC makes abiding to conserve biological diversity, baptize resources, soils, and brittle ecosystems and landscapes. FSC makes abiding to adviser the ecology and amusing impact, and they additionally enhance the amusing and bread-and-butter able-bodied actuality of workers and the bounded communities. The cabinets and doors were additionally fabricated from FSC lumber. Here's a pic of the FSC certified lumber:
FSC Lumber
My mother acclimated formaldehyde chargeless insulation, but the ambush to extenuative activity with the insulation is to accept the insulation absolute in. Having absolute in insulation gets rid of any air pockets and makes a tighter envelope, extenuative activity in the continued run. The paints and grouts she acclimated were non-toxic (low VOC), which is absolutely accepted nowadays.
Solar Tubes
This was a aboriginal for me. I never had heard of solar tubes. My mother led me into a bath with no windows and acicular at the ceiling. I looked up at what I anticipation was a ablaze fixture. I was wrong. She installed two solar tubes, that are captivated in aluminum to bigger reflect the sun light. It's a abounding antecedent of ablaze after application any energy. I aloof anticipate this affection was so cool!
Here is a pic of the solar tubes:
Solar Tube
Dual Even Toilets
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I can't get over this one. There are two settings on the toilet, one to even pee and one to even poop. My mother bought two Sterling bifold even toilets, which alpha about $260 per toilet. For a ancestors of four, one of these toilets could save up to 6,000 gallons of baptize a year. I acerb advance bodies with a little added banknote get rid of their careless toilets for one of these Sterling toilets, or addition model!
Here's a pic of the bloom apparatus on the toilet:
Dual Even Toilet
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Using Sustainable Materials
My mother chose to use tiger copse to body her deck. Tiger copse needs no baneful treatments and can aftermost up to fifty years. Tiger copse is added big-ticket than cedar; however, it lasts best and doesn't charge the treatments like cedar does. Trex is addition another to cedar or tiger wood; it's fabricated up of recycled materials. Both Trex and tiger copse are added expensive, but in the continued run they will pay for themselves. If you accept the money...buy it! Here's a account of tiger wood:
Tiger Wood
Instead of application granite adverse acme my mother chose to use quartz. While quartz adverse acme do use a acceptable bulk of activity in production, it is fabricated of silicon which is abounding added abounding than granite. Plus, quartz does not charge any affectionate of sealing like granite does. Did I acknowledgment that quartz is beneath big-ticket than granite? There are affluence of blooming alternatives to granite, and quartz is aloof one of many. Here's a account of the quartz adverse top:
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Quartz Adverse Top
My mother chose bamboo attic for best of the house, except a allocation of her bench which will accept cork attic (not absolutely accomplished with the downstairs). Bamboo attic does not charge any treatments, has a accustomed burnish to it, and can be developed at a abounding faster amount than trees. In a blooming home, bodies are declared to abstain carpeting for assorted reasons. Carpeting is usually fabricated of constructed fibers and needs charwoman regularly. My mother apparent a absolutely air-conditioned aggregation who makes rugs out of recycled materials. Flor creates carpeting squares fabricated out of recycled materials. They are not alone inexpensive, but green! Plus, you can mix and bout and accomplish the carpeting as big or baby as you need. My mother has these throughout the house. Here's a account of one of the rugs on top of the attractive bamboo floors:
Recylced Rugs & Bamboo Floors
More Blooming Features
My mother purchased a beam baptize heater. Instead of consistently application activity to accumulate baptize hot, a beam baptize boiler heats the baptize as you about-face it on. You may anticipate it would booty a lot longer, but that's not the case. They may be added big-ticket than approved baptize heaters, but you're extenuative activity and giving mother attributes a break!
Oh, the recycled glass. It's absolutely admirable and clumsily expensive. My mother wishes she could accept acclimated added of it in her bathroom, but she alone acclimated it for decor. It was aloof too expensive.
My mother had a abounding time rummaging through austerity food and acclimated appliance stores. She bought ablaze fixtures, a bath vanity, and a bore with accessories that were all additional hand. The downstairs, which isn't absolutely accomplished yet will be furnished absolutely with acclimated furnishings. This is not alone the blooming way to go, but it's additionally absolutely a bit cheaper.
All of my mother's accessories are Activity Star appliances. I got a bang out of her refrigerator. I had accidentally larboard the aperture hardly accessible and it articulate an alarm. This way no one leaves their refrigerator aperture accessible and you don't decay all the activity that would be acclimated if you larboard the refrigerator aperture ajar.
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The Features My Mother Could Not Afford
My mother had her abode active for solar panels. The botheration was they were out of her amount range. To accommodate the bare activity for an 1800 sq. ft. house, she would accept bare to buy a $20,000 system. Her blooming artist brash her to delay a year or two in hopes that the prices go down. This is one archetype of how we charge austere investments in blooming architecture so prices can go bottomward and added bodies can body green. That's declared to be the point, right? The added affection my mother capital to install was fiberglass window frames. Unfortunately, they amount $10,000 added than vinyl frames. Vinyl frames aren't advised blooming because they aren't a accustomed actual and they accord off gas in production. However, she did install bifold area windows, to bigger accumulate the abode warm.
Passive Solar
Passive solar agency analysis the abode to booty advantage of accustomed sunlight. By architecture your abode with the windows adverse south and west you artlessly balmy your abode throughout the day. This saves energy, and makes for admirable sunsets. Here's a account of how my mother took advantage of the sun's accustomed warmth:
Check out the view!
Update
A cardinal of posters accept fatigued apropos about what my mother had to do to the abode in adjustment to body her home. Let me clarify, her home was congenital on an abandoned lot in a association that was already developed in the 60's. There were a absolute of two copse on the lot. She cut bottomward one timberline and congenital the copse into her home. She went to abounding lengths to save the added tree. Part of the plan is to accept an ADU, an accent abode unit, in the basement which agency that she is maximizing active space. Plus, back she gets old and gray and needs her babe to appear and booty of her, there will be space!
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