Real-Life Green Kitchen Renovation
by Justin Thomas, Virginia on 09.21.05
The Washington Post recently featured an interesting article detailing a real-life green kitchen renovation by a Washington, DC homeowner, Lila Guterman and her family. During the renovation, a lot of compromises had to be made between cost and using truly eco-friendly materials. For example, they ended up building a countertop from Formica, which was not green but was inexpensive, allowing they to splurge a bit elsewhere. The floor is made from Marmoleum, a brand of linoleum, that's made out of eco-materials including linseed oil and natural pigment. He paid about $7 per square foot for it. They article goes on to describe their choice of material for each part of the kitchen. :: Washington Post
Uh, actually, the Washington, DC, homeowner who wrote the article and renovated her kitchen was Lila Guterman. I was just a small part of the article -- for the Marmoleum floor I put in. (I also put in Ikea cabinets, which I believe are some of the greenest you can buy off the shelf.) But Lila did much, much more in her kitchen that's green -- floor, cabinets, countertop, and so on.
Thanks for blogging about my story, but Scott's right: I wrote a little about the compromises his family had to make, but my husband and I did not make such compromises. Instead we compromised our wallets and went more-or-less all green!