To achieve this rugged, modern look to the staircase, salvaged timber was simply glued together to form a sort of a butcher-block treads.

Shoreline Townhouses is a new residential project in Hastings by Phoenix Trinity. They’ve chosen bio-charcoal pyrolysis as their method of carbon offsetting.

A screwpile foundation can go in as quickly as few days whereas it will take weeks to complete a slab foundation. You won’t have to fret about groundwork and soil disposal.

Unfortunately, it turned out that our society wasn’t ready for such an innovatory approach. The recycling machines were vandalized, so Tesco had to refuse accepting paper and cardboard.

How about a house that’s never been a factory unit but still looks like one? This luxury townhouse in Adelaide, Australia is a new build and every part of it screams industrial modernism.

The floor is absolutely gorgeous. You won’t see any of those smelling dusting carpets in this flat. Pure reclaimed wood. What do you do with excess floorboards, you might ask?

So, each socket of the Energenie standby shutdown will save you on average 87.6kWh of electricity. With the average retail price of electricity standing at 10p, it comes to £26.28 saved.

thought you’d like to see this. As far as eco villages go, this one is by far the most unusual. The only reason why you don’t see gnomes and unicorns on the pics is that they were busy at the time of taking these photos.
The eco village is situated just outside Kharkov (quite a [...]

Now to my favourite part of the house – the bathroom complex. It starts on the left from the hall with a small corridor. It leads to the WC, Russian steambath and a huge marvellous bathroom.

If we were able to cover the desert in solar cells in its entirety, we would get 54,000,000TWh of electricity. The funny thing is that we only need 18,000TWh (that’s how much electricity we consume worldwide).

How green can a beam be? Some ideas for your rustic interior with exposed beams.

It lists 21 things that you should avoid buying new. So what’s on the hotlist? Cars, furniture, decor items, tools. Sounds like a great list.