Pretty Little Green Things

We’re about ready to start construction our apartment in a few short weeks.  By its very nature, construction can be a very un-green process.  Lots of waste, new materials, toxic adhesives and paints, energy use, well, you get the idea.  In spite of all this, we want to make our construction as eco-friendly as possible.  Our first goal?  Re-use as many existing materials as we can.  We’re only replacing what absolutely needs to be replaced and nothing else.  Next up?  Using eco-friendly materials where possible.  That means low-VOC paints, recycled tiles and quartz countertops (more on all that later).  And when we finally get around to buying furniture and home accessories, those will be as green as possible too.

I would have taken “before” pictures to show you, but right now our apartment is a DISASTER.  It’s tough to have the motivation to truly clean up when you know your house will be a construction site soon.  I’ll be documenting the whole experience so maybe when it’s all done, I’ll bring out the before pics so I can at least justify the mess with the beautiful afters.

We’re about ready to start construction our apartment in a few short weeks.  By its very nature, construction can be a very un-green process.  Lots of waste, new materials, toxic adhesives and paints, energy use, well, you get the idea.  In spite of all this, we want to make our construction as eco-friendly as possible.  Our first goal?  Re-use as many existing materials as we can.  We’re only replacing what absolutely needs to be replaced and nothing else.  Next up?  Using eco-friendly materials where possible.  That means low-VOC paints, recycled tiles and quartz countertops (more on all that later).  And when we finally get around to buying furniture and home accessories, those will be as green as possible too.

I would have taken “before” pictures to show you, but right now our apartment is a DISASTER.  It’s tough to have the motivation to truly clean up when you know your house will be a construction site soon.  I’ll be documenting the whole experience so maybe when it’s all done, I’ll bring out the before pics so I can at least justify the mess with the beautiful afters.