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5 Easy Tips for a Greener Home

1. Pitcher This. Keep a water pitcher near a faucet to conserve water when running the tap. Choose a pretty decorative glass or ceramic pitcher to add a personal design touch to the space, the same way a beautiful vase does in another room. Save the water in the pitcher for future use, such as watering house plants.

2. Two in Every Room. Place an ornate waste basket in every room for recycling biodegradable items and another for non-biodegradable matter. The baskets can either be uniform or different in style. The key is to focus on getting creative with everyday household items, while helping to save the environment.

3. The Zen of the Shoe Basket. Establish an area near the front entry where people can take their shoes off. Approximately 85% of dust, allergens and chemicals in the home are from shoe traffic. For a clean entry look, place the shoes in a low woven square basket with a lid. Maintaining a shoe-free space will prolong the flooring and also control the pollutants in the home. Read More …

Cucumber Green

One of the coolest colors in the palette is a pale green, a green so pale that it’s safer probably to say it’s white with just a hint of green, rather than green watered down with white.

Often we look to nature for clues about colors. Keep a couple of cukes in the crisper, slice them and arrange on a blue plate, and you’ll start feeling cooler even before you take a bite.

So it is too with using cucumber green in your home decor. Here, we’re talking about the color of the inside of the cuke, the palest shade of green. For now, peel away that rich, dark green shade of the cucumber skin – it’s too dark for the summer months, and would work better sometime in February, when you want to brighten things up while keeping them warm.

If you do choose to color the walls of a porch or sunroom cucumber green, consider furnishing the room in a summery style, by using wicker, floral prints, and potted plants. A sisal carpet with a deeper green border can pull it all together.

Even your interior rooms could benefit from being re-painted with cucumber green. A room in the back of the house that doesn’t get much light is a good candidate, as is a room with dark furniture that needs to be brightened up with lighter walls. Good choices for trim would be a slightly darker shade of the cucumber, or something from the other side of the color wheel, such as a deep pink.

The pale of cucumber can cool things off, even as the use of it fires up your passion for interior design.