Green Can be Comfortable

Often when I see an article about green home, the homes look ultra-modern and cold.  Our goal was to show that a traditional, warm and inviting home could also be a green home.

We also wanted to show that green building didn't require trade-offs off comfort and could even be luxurious.  Here are some of the products we used to achieve our goals:

Flooring: Reclaimed Civil War era Tobacco Barn siding from Blacks Farmwood and domestic wool, all natural and chemical free carpets from Earthweave.

Tiles and Stone: All glazed tiles from FireClay Tile Debris Series Tile.

Locally made with >50% recycled content
~26% powder from GraniteRock
~26% recycled glass à embodied energy used to run kilns at lower temps.

Counter top stone was scraps and extras from previous projects purchased from local stone finishers.

Terracotta tiles >100 years old, pulled from home demolitions in Southern Spain. Purchased through Mazari de Epoca. (Container shipping equivalent CO2 impact as trucking from East Coast.)

Finishes: All wood finished with zero VOC Bioshield paint (ingredients: Linseed Oil, Tung Oil, Linseed Stand Oil, Silicic Acid, Beeswax, Candelilla wax, Lead-Free).

Walls all natural American Clay plaster with integrated color.