Kitchen Remodeling - Go Green
If you are doing kitchen remodeling, or planning to, consider the benefits of investing in eco-friendly, energy efficient products and textiles rather than choosing your traditional products. You will not notice any difference in terms of quality or function (unless you see significant improvements) but you will be reducing the energy costs you are paying out, improving the Earth a bit at a time and you may be protecting your family as well. Going green in the kitchen does not have to be a hard task to take on either.
Here are some interesting tips and methods to go green in your home. Think outside the box when it comes to updating the look of your home.
• The appliances are one of the most important areas for you to make changes. Choose only energy efficient appliances. Compare the Energy Start rating on each one to determine which uses the least about of energy to operate.
• Consider the lighting in the space. Choose compact fluorescents (CFLs). These can cut down your energy costs considerably,
even up to 75 percent. Choose to design your kitchen remodeling project around natural lighting, too. This can cut down on the amount of light you need to get from other sources.
• Choose the right materials for the space. You can find low VOC as well as no VOC paints, priced only slightly higher. These reduce the fumes that the paint emits when you are using it. Many of the largest paint companies offer these, in a wide range of colors and styles.
• When choosing kitchen remodeling features for the space, especially your cabinets, think about the eco friendly solutions available. Instead of choosing trees that are hard to replace, choose bamboo cabinetry, which replenishes itself far faster. Be sure the company is eco friendly and uses an eco friendly glue to hold cabinetry together, too.
• Choose countertops that are environmentally friend. A good option is a product called vertrazzo, which is made from recycled glass and cast concrete.
• For tiling in your kitchen remodeling project, choose glass since these do not give off any type of emissions.
When doing any type of updating and repair work for your home, try to focus on appliances, products and services that are green. If you are hiring a company to put your new updates into place, be sure that you are also focusing on the methods and installation processes that company uses. It can help to cut down on your footprint considerably.
Take the time to consider all of your options for updating your home using energy efficient and environmentally friendly products and services. Kitchen remodeling can look fantastic, function, as you would like it to, but not do nearly the damage to the planet as other products do. By making careful decisions like this, you will have lasting results that create a healthy environment for everyone living there, from your children to the generations that come to live in your in the years to come.
