Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Day Forty

The big decisions make a big difference; ecologically-friendly flooring, insulation, lighting, HVAC and wood siding restoration - but as Emily reminded me, the small ones are no less important.

Which raises the question, when considering the much over looked electric socket, where do we throw our hat when we have to decide between poorly designed metal fixtures (metal is the closest I can find to 'green' in the very small world of sockets) and design-perfect screwless plastic?

Metal.











Screwless. But plastic.


































I can barely believe I'm writing about sockets. Tomorrow is going to be worse. I had a chat today with a paint specialist and was told that all of the colour swatches I posted the other day are from paint companies that have very high Volatile Organic Compounds in their paints. So those are a no no. I've found two companies that produce very low VOC paint and those swatches will be posted tomorrow.

I know, it's breath taking stuff.

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