Low Impact

Old carpet – how best to reuse it?

So, we’ve had our sustainably harvested, dust free bamboo flooring laid down…but what to do with the old carpet? How on earth do you re-use 90 square metres of carpet?

Given that our main aim with our renovations is to have an environmentally friendly and sustainable home, starting off by dumping 90 square metres of carpet into landfill just felt wrong! A search on the net yielded a few ideas, and asking around gave a few more. Continue reading

Green Resolutions for 2009

Normally, I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions. I figure that if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing now – why wait till some arbitrary date like January 1?

Still, there are a few things that I plan to accomplish over the next 365 days to help lower my impact on the environment, and 1/1/2009 is a good a day as any to start! … Continue reading

The new bamboo flooring installed

Our new place had been a rental for the last few years, and a little TLC is definitely called for. So before we make any massive changes, we’ve decided to give it a bit of a “face lift” by way of new floors, fresh paint, and new light fittings. I’ll post about all these things over the coming weeks, and some of the things we’re factoring in to our decisions. But first stop, (and the first thing completed!) is the flooring.

The question to ask straight away is “do you really … Continue reading