Green Interior Design: The Guide to Sustainable High Style

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A nice-looking living room featuring a green L-shape sofa along with green window curtains surrounded by white walls. When possible, utilizing natural light can replace energy costs of lighting, while providing some healthy support to your circadian rhythm by bringing you more in tune to the outside world. Working in daylight may even make you more productive! Make sure windows are high-performing to not leak energy. An interior designer can help you determine what options are possible in your location and how to best reduce glare for your situation. Make your Windows Bird Friendly Photo: “DSC00140” by historyworks, shared under Creative Commons Attribution Next, consider the mood you want to create – cozy and enveloping, in which case a darker green will suit – or light and airy, in which case you will want to choose a paler shade. What colors complement green? A primary bathroom with marble tiles flooring and a marble sink counter with a double sink. There’s a walk-in shower room as well. Spacious primary bedroom with green walls and a brown accent. The room has a large bed, carpet flooring, and a tray ceiling.

This primary bathroom features green walls and tiles floors, along with a double sink and a corner bathtub. A small kitchen area featuring green kitchen counters, center island, and cabinetry along with hardwood flooring. To make green rooms look good, it's important to do a little in-room research first. To begin with, consider the room's natural light. Is it a cool, east- or north-facing light that the room gets or a warm one? Knowing this will help you choose a balancing shade – warmer ones for cooler rooms and cooler ones for warmer rooms. This kitchen features marble countertops on both green kitchen counters and center island. The area is lighted by pendant lights. This elegant and bright foyer has white marble flooring that contrasts with the green patterned walls that complement the green carpeting of the stairs. Upon entry, there is an elegant console table on the side that is topped with a matching wall-mounted mirror with the same intricate details.A stunning primary bathroom with very attractive green tiles walls and floors. The room offers a double sink and a drop-in tub.

You do not want to cut corners to save money when buying an appliance. Improvements in technology means that updating your appliances can do wonders for your energy consumption. However, many appliances are difficult to recycle. This means that the eco-friendly way to update your appliances is to get the best quality, most energy-efficient option. By buying quality appliances built to last rather than inexpensive appliances that need frequent replacement, you are minimizing your environmental impact by reducing energy consumption and by reducing future waste. Over time, you will end up saving money with the energy savings and long life of your appliance. Consider the Life-Cycle of Materials Photo: “International Recycling Symbol,” Public Domain.Small primary bathroom featuring a toilet area, a corner tub and two pedestal sinks surrounded by green walls with a white accent. Remember the environmentally conscious adage “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?” Durable materials such as construction materials can be reused to give them a second life, sometimes in surprising ways Want to learn more? Mark Gorgolewski explores many options for material reuse in Resource Salvation: The Architecture of Reuse. This is an eclectic grand foyer with a high arched ceiling complemented by immense transom windows. The foyer has double glass doors that pair well with the delightful green walls. The eclectic details that adorn the grand piano give this foyer a homey warmth. Source: Zillow Digs TM

Green, in all its shades, has been a popular design choice for several years now, and the colour trend isn’t showing any signs of stopping. In fact, many of us are becoming bolder with our interiors and are finding new exciting ways to incorporate green, whether it's to create a vibrant, eclectic or tranquil living space. There are three fundamental principles to “green” interior design: energy efficiency, resource conservation, and health. When designing or remodeling an interior, optimizing the energy efficiency reduces pollution and saves resources for the entire lifetime of the interior. While maximizing energy efficiency is sometimes more expensive upfront, in the long term reducing energy consumption saves money and pays for itself. Spacious primary bathroom featuring classy green walls and a long sink counter, along with a Romantic-style bathtub. A gloomy living space featuring stylish flooring and a green sofa set matching the green walls with multiple wall decors.Dine-in kitchen featuring hardwood flooring and green walls, along with white kitchen counters and a white center island both with marble countertops. The white cottage-style bed is flanked by two tall windows with ornate white wooden designs. The dark wooden flooring is a nice earthy complement to the green walls and contrasts with the white built-in cabinets and drawers dominating one wall. The highlight of this grand and airy foyer is the massive crystal chandelier hanging from the high ceiling. This is a perfect foreground for the green walls that are adorned with panels beige trimmed with gold. This gold on green theme is also seen on the pair of columns flanking the entryway. Designed by: Heather Garrett Design