Green Interior Design: The Guide to Sustainable High Style

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When possible, utilizing natural light can replace energy costs of lighting, while providing some healthy support to your circadian rhythm by bringing you more in tune to the outside world. Working in daylight may even make you more productive! Make sure windows are high-performing to not leak energy. An interior designer can help you determine what options are possible in your location and how to best reduce glare for your situation. Make your Windows Bird Friendly Photo: “DSC00140” by historyworks, shared under Creative Commons Attribution A stunning primary bathroom with very attractive green tiles walls and floors. The room offers a double sink and a drop-in tub.

Large great room with hardwood flooring and green walls. The area offers a living space near the stone fireplace.

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This primary bathroom features green walls and tiles floors, along with a double sink and a corner bathtub. Whatever language you use to describe it, sustainable design is imperative. The good news is, no matter what your personal style, you do not need to compromise. Sustainable interior design is possible in any style, from Neoclassical to mid-century modern, and everything in between. Twelve Examples of Sustainable Design Avoid Volatile Organic Compounds Photo: At East Village Theater – “Carpet” by Rex Roof, shared under Creative Commons Attribution.

The highlight of this grand and airy foyer is the massive crystal chandelier hanging from the high ceiling. This is a perfect foreground for the green walls that are adorned with panels beige trimmed with gold. This gold on green theme is also seen on the pair of columns flanking the entryway. Designed by: Heather Garrett DesignIn an office or industrial setting, waste heat can be harnessed using heat exchangers. These systems are custom designed to the particulars of the activities and building, so a well-educated interior designer is needed to find the best opportunities for an energy recovery system. This can range from as simple as capturing the excess heat generated by an oven in an industrial kitchen to boil water for use, to much more complex or opaque systems. Cool Buildings Naturally Photo: “Jagd Suite at Schlosshotel Lerbach” by R Boed, shared under Creative Commons Attribution. Ideally, a product is environmentally responsible from cradle (harvest or manufacture) to cradle (eventual recycling and reuse).

This is a simple and inviting foyer with a couple of gray cushioned armchairs against the pastel green wall flanking a small circular table with a wall-mounted flower painting above. The beige ceiling works well with the green walls and has a dark iron chandelier in the middle. Source: Zillow Digs TM Select Energy-Efficient Appliances Built to Last Photo: Appliances by Bryan Alexander, shared under Creative Commons Attribution The two terms are often used interchangeably, but the two words have slightly different connotations. In The Green Studio Handbook, Alison G. Kwok and Walter Grondzik note their preference for “green” as term with a definition established through its use in rating systems such as LEED. Through the guidelines for these rigorous rating systems, we know exactly what qualifies as “green” and what does not, giving us a practical, working definition for what is “green” today. Overtime, as environmentally conscious practices become mainstream, what is considered “green” changes.

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At Design Institute of San Diego, we prefer to use sustainable over “green.” Concerned with both environmental impact and social responsibility more broadly, we consider “green” standards to be a bare minimum and aspire to be leaders in environmental design, pushing the boundaries of eco friendly design and striving toward the goal of truly sustainable interior design. A close up look at this primary bathroom’s double sink surrounded by green walls. The room also offers a toilet area. Designing with resource conservation in mind requires mindful use of limited resources. Designing interiors with a long, adaptable lifetime or with eventual reuse in mind also conserves resources in the long term by reducing the need for remodels or reducing waste in future remodels. Additionally, “green” interior design protects the health of users by designing for wellbeing and the prevention of indoor air pollution. “Green” interior design is forward-thinking, enhancing the lives of users today and in the future, while protecting the environment for years to come. Is “green” the same thing as sustainable? Huge primary bathroom with green classy walls and green tiles flooring. The room offers a floating vanity with two vessel sinks along with a freestanding tub. Spacious dining area featuring a classy dining table set on top of a large area rug and is lighted by a glamorous chandelier.

A dining area featuring green walls and hardwood flooring, along with a rustic rectangular dining table set. Small dining area featuring green walls and a green bench seating along with a white round table paired with green chairs. This dining area featuring green walls with two wall sconces. There’s a square dining table set for four.A primary bathroom with marble tiles flooring and a marble sink counter with a double sink. There’s a walk-in shower room as well. The traditional wooden bed has a built-in headboard of the same wooden make that provides a nice dark contrast to the avocado green walls. These green walls are paired well with a white shed ceiling and white woven carpeted flooring. This green-walled primary bedroom offers an amazing view of the surrounding nature through its pair of wide windows that match the white tray ceiling and light gray carpeted flooring. The traditional bed has an ornate iron headboard that matches the patterns of the bedsheets for that chic aesthetic.