If you're planning on remodeling or have just remodeled part of your home and are looking to stash all the ripped out materials somewhere, contact the ReUse People. They can provide materials or take your unused/leftover materials and redistribute them. Sounds neat, huh ( Read more... )

I looked through the tags for this, but the topic I'm searching for I missed. I have the chance to move out of my apartment at the end of the year. I'm considering one of two things ( Read more... )

Hi All,
I posted earlier on a green home reno and I bought a great magazine today and saw an interesting ad.

Has anyone seen or used Fresh Aire Paint? It is at Home Depot.

I intend on building an earth sheltered home in the next 5 years and would love to hear about other peoples experiences, what they love and what they'd change?  Contracter stories and ways to increase the off grid sustainability?

TIA 

I am thinking about trying to build some cob furniture for our yard. Maybe a couple benches and a table if possible. I've never built with cob before and I'm having a hard time finding resources on the internet that don't involve taking courses or aren't specifically about building houses. Does anyone have any suggestions as to online resources or ( Read more... )

if you're not familiar with living homes ( Read more... )

Recently our dump/recycling center stopped taking green and brown bottles for recycling. This leaves us in a bit of a pickle, as most of the bottles we recycle are green and brown glass. So we have tried to come up with a way to reuse these bottles and we came up with two options: Use the bottles as borders for flower/herb gardens and/or use them ( Read more... )