Eco-friendly Rugs and more

Until recently I thought “greening” meant painting your home green—or at least your walls green—or maybe putting lots of green plants in the house.
Guess what? I was wrong. It means setting up your house in the most eco-friendly way using materials that are natural, maybe even recyclable; certainly fiber and content that is not synthetic.
This may seem like a huge task but I am sure Al Gore is doing it and from the number of magazines out there espousing this theme it has taken hold in a big way.
Natural Home magazine proposes an artistic & eco-friendly dream home, where the entire structure, in and out, is a creation of environmentally friendly blocks made of recycled Styrofoam.
You don’t have to go that far, but there are some ideas you can use to be on the cutting edge of transforming your home into one that will save energy and attack global warming.
Choose green floors: ask for area rugs made of wool as a good way of incorporating natural materials to cover a wood floor. If your furniture hasn’t been designed with eco-friendly natural fabrics, it can be remedied by selecting 100 per cent cotton slipcovers. Organic sheets and linens might be added. Make sure all appliances are energy efficient; and use energy-saving light fixtures and lamps with dimmers, if you can’t afford a solar panel.
Start with a few changes in your soon to be “green house” and pretty soon you will be riding your bike to work!

Martha Stewart Rugs on the Today Show

Did you catch Safavieh’s Martha Stewart Faux Bois rug on the ‘Today Show’ recently? Blueprint magazine’s editor-in-chief, Sarah Humphreys, used a Martha Stewart Faux Bois rug as the foundation for a “gender neutral” bedroom, which was created on the street outside NBC’s studio at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City on Tuesday, Oct. 9.

Millions of viewers watched as host Al Roker described the wood-grain patterned, silk and wool Tibetan rug as “actually pretty cool.” Humphreys explained she selected the rug because it is interesting: chic and woodsy but not overpowering.

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Rugs USA in the book Familyfun Home

The most recent edition of the book "Familyfun Home: 200 Creative Projects & Practical Tips To Make Your Home Truly Family-Friendly" by Deanna Cook mentions the great selection of children and educational rugs that Rugs USA is known for. On page 212 of the book the author suggests Rugs USA for it's "colorfully themed rugs for kids's rooms". You can buy the book from Amazon.

Mark Abrams collection by Rug Market

This month at the High Point Rug and Furniture show in North Carolina, Rug Market introduced a new licensed rug collection by famed designer Mark Abrams. The Rug Market has always been one of our favorite rug companies offering a wide variety of fun rugs for children. You can read all about this on Home Accents Today.