Green Home Design
A guide to a modern and sustainable house
Reclaimed Timber Staircase by Mork-Ulnes

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

Wooden Floorboards

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.

Sophisticated Cuved Beams

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

Tesla Roadster

There’s a fresh interview with Cristiano Carlutti – the brain behind Tesla Motors sales strategy. I reckon the guy has the hardest job in the world and it seems he’s coping.

Interior Design pic by Max Attenborough

Recycled glass tiles is a wonderful material. You can get all sorts of patterns and textures.

Living Pixels - It is Alive

As a design object, Living Pixel tells a story, its not a usual lighting object. When turned off, it almost merges with the background and poses as a non-pretentious design element.

Bewley's Bowtie Range

His moto is “Made in America… Twice”. The bases for the lamps are usually made of car parts (brake rotors or drums) or reused lambeam compressed wood.

Green Furniture by Kevin Hunt

This garden furniture covered with grass is totally amazing. It shows you how well you can integrate objects within the Nature.

Timber Table by Julian Kyhl

Although this table is very simple, you’ll have to agree that it is pleasing for the eye and would fit in all sorts of interior styles. Products like this really change the way we perceive furniture.

Banana Leaf Beads

You might ask how come I’m now interested in beads? Well, although I can imagine a banana necklace looking good with a certain type of knitted garments, these particular beads are great for interior design.

Interesting Shapes

Look how he’s constructed this abstract painting using adhesive tapes of different width. The same idea can be applied to an interior design project.