Today’s tip comes from Rachel Hulan of Path Design, an interior design firm specializing in sustainable design for residential and light commercial projects.
With your children’s room floored and painted, it’s time to turn our attention to the final element — furniture. A lot of children’s furniture is made from pressed wood, such as particleboard, and almost all pressed wood contains formaldehyde – not something you would necessarily want your child sleeping next to for 10-12 hours a night.
Today’s tip comes from Rachel Hulan of Path Design, an interior design firm specializing in sustainable design for residential and light commercial projects.
Now that you’ve conquered green flooring solutions, let’s turn our efforts at eliminating unwanted chemicals and other unwanted elements from our children’s rooms to the most changeable, adjustable and frequently updated element of any room — the paint job.
Many of you may have read the term “low-VOC” or even “zero-VOC” in paint articles recently, but what does that mean, and why would you care?
Today’s tip comes from Rachel Hulan of Path Design, an interior design firm specializing in sustainable design for residential and light commercial projects.
As parents, we face many decisions when it comes time to decorate our kid’s rooms. Would a boy like a sports theme or a dinosaur theme better? Is it too “girlie” to paint a daughter’s room bubblegum pink, even though it’s her FAVORITE color? Is your new baby going to sleep better if you have the Beatrix Potter wallpaper or the Classic Pooh?
But the most important design decisions you make for you child involve things you probably didn’t even know were an issue, such as formaldehyde and petrochemical off-gassing.
The Road Less Traveled Store and Morning Song Farm are jointly hosting a brunch and tour at the organic farm in Temecula on Nov. 21.
Morning Star Farm, a certified organic farm in Temecula.
The $90 event will feature a look at growing processes and farming activities, and provide visitors with ”farm to table” dining via the three-course brunch. A food preservation workshop will also be held.
The presenters:
Today’s tip comes from The Road Less Traveled owner Delilah Snell.
People always ask me about what to wash their clothes with. Nowadays, there are a number of great products that are not only eco-sensitive, but which can save you $ and time.
Delilah Snell lectures on green living and food preservation throughout Southern California. To learn more about green products, you can visit Delilah at the The Road Less Traveled in Santa Ana or check out her blog, Project Small.
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We all have them: leftover jars from spaghetti sauce, mustard, jams. Sure, you can recycle them, but can’t you use them for something?
Here’s a list of ways you can use your leftover jars beyond the recycling bin:
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