Latest Stories in Interior Design - Page 10
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Moody Tablecloth, Hand-made in Italy, has Pockets for Organizing Small Spaces
Whether you are looking for the perfect Christmas gift, or the perfect ambiance for your Christmas party, Zo_loft has a tablecloth or table runner to meet the need. What makes a Zo_loft tablecloth so unique? The
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Macy's Lighting Retrofit Will Trim Electricity Bill by 73%
Macy's stores around the country are about to get a lighting makeover that will curb the company's energy consumption by a huge amount. Retrofitting over 117,000 43-watt halogen-based bulbs used for accent
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UN Urges Phase Out Of Incandescent Bulbs, Guarantees Their Survival In USA
In America, Joe Barton introduced BULB, the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, to repeal legislation that set minimum efficiency standards and would phase out incandescent bulbs. He's quoted in the New York
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Eco Reminders; Wall Stickers with a Poetic Message Help You Get Rid of Bad Habits (Photos)
Stickers can be fun, but how eco-friendly is this new craze for decorating walls? We have found two brands that claim their vinyls to be eco-chic, and some even come with decorative eco-reminders; very clever! Hu2 in the UK has just
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BrightShelf Throws A Curve At The Traditional Lightshelf
One of the simplest technologies for getting more natural light into an interior is the lightshelf; it bounces light off the ceiling instead of carelessly wasting it on the floor. I have thought that it might be a great thing
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Can the ESL Knock Out The CFL? Perhaps, But Not The LED.
Compact Fluorescents are not without their problems; a lot of people don't like the light from them and disposal is an issue. But LEDs are still expensive.
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Engineered Pulp Used To Make Cheap, Light, Green Coffin
DanCof (The Green Way To Heaven) writes that about 36 million coffins are produced every year. That is a lot of chipboard at the low end and fancy woods at the high end, just to bury someone in. Hazel at Inhabitat writes that "Bendt
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Savvy Cardboard Clothes Hangers Reduce Plastic Waste
Considering that only 15% of the 8 billion polystyrene or polycarbonate clothes hangers manufactured per year are recycled, the much-depended on closet accessory has a major environmental
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French Artist Turns 'Garbage With Talent' Into Beautiful Lighting (Photos)
Those old rusty colanders, kettles, pots and pans of yours have hidden talents. That's according to Parisian craftsman, artist and bricoleur extraordinaire Garbage, a.k.a. Gilles Eichenbaum, who refurbishes old, seemingly
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Transformer Furniture: A Sofa Bed With A Twist
Traditional sofa beds, where you have to remove all the cushions and unfold the bed, are a pain and not very comfortable. But for smaller spaces and studios, transformers can save a lot of space and serve multiple functions.
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For Many People, The Stars Don't Come Out Any More
Credit: Stellarium Click image to enlarge Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Hayden Planetarium has complained that kids growing up where he did (in the Bronx) don't even know that there are stars. This image, generated by Stellarium software, shows the
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Temporary Office Interior Built from Shipping Pallets
Wood pallets are more ubiquitous than even shipping containers, with two billion of them floating around the globe. In Amsterdam, Most Architecture has built a temporary office interior
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Survey Shows 73% of Lighting and Building Pros Using LEDs
After posting LED Lighting Has Become Almost Boring, and That's A Good Thing, commenters noted that they were still way to expensive to be used widely. This may be so at the retail level, but a recent study by Osram-Sylvania shows that at the
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LED Lighting Has Become Almost Boring, and That's A Good Thing
We become so jaded and blase´. A few years ago, walking through the Light Canada Show (part of IIDEX and the Green Living Festival in Toronto) I was bug-eyed at all of the
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Does Telecommuting Increase Carbon Emissions?
Inhabitat's Ariel Schwartz headlines a post Tellecomuting, Online Shopping Increase Carbon Emissions, pointing to a Science Daily post that says "working from home can increase home energy use by as much as 30 per cent, and can lead to people moving
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Steam Punk Chandelier From Old Bikes? Yes, Please
Artists Carolina Fontoura Alzaga has a way with bike chains. She transforms old bike parts into some seriously cool one-of-a-kind chandeliers. They have a certain steam punk style that we love, while also upcycling
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'Comfortable Contemporary': Upcycled Furniture from Think Contemporary
Surely you've gotten the urge at least once -- passing by an anonymous pile of discarded furniture pieces curbside, you feel a compulsion to rescue some forlorn credenza from landfill purgatory and to make it something 'new'
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BBC Show Claims Home Working Produces More CO2 Than Going To Office
We just take it for granted at TreeHugger that working from home saves a huge amount of energy and is great for the environment. But Alex Johnson of Shedworking points us to Costing the Earth, a BBC radio show that
