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Celebrate Sustainable House Day on September 11 with our top tips for stylish, eco-friendly home decorating
Sustainable House Day gives people the chance to have a good look inside houses that have been designed, built or fitted out with sustainability in mind as well as talk to owners for unbiased advice. The day provides a chance for people to exchange ideas and learn from each other, and all visits to the houses are also free of charge, so it costs nothing to see how easy and economical the move to greener living can be.
The aim of Sustainable House Day is to provide an enjoyable, informative day that contributes to local community awareness of sustainable living. Education is indeed key, as many Australians wouldn’t be aware that each year the average Aussie household contributes 13 tonnes of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere—enough to fill more than 700 balloons every day – while each household also draws an average of 73,000 buckets of water a year, enough for around 12 baths a day! Sustainable House Day is a fabulous day to celebrate and learn about greener living.
In that theme, we thought we’d put together a blog with a few of our own ideas about styling your home with sustainable, yet stylish pieces that look great but are also better for the world.
- Choose sustainably sourced timber products
Forest loss, or ‘deforestation’, is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emis
sions in the world, so by choosing wooden products from sustainably managed forests (where trees are replanted as they are felled), we can all help to tackle this problem. Wood products that come from sustainably managed forests are kinder to the environment as more trees are planted in place of those cut down, and in fact, well managed areas generally store more carbon than those that are not harvested.
A great example of a beautifully designed piece which uses sustainably sourced timbers is this Homesum ‘Frond’ fruit bowl, $79.95.
- Choose products made from recycled materials
Recycling is vital in order 
to reduce the vast amounts of material that are sent to landfill every year. By supporting businesses that use recycled materials, you also support the environment, as well as having the opportunity to source one-off and limited edition pieces, each with their own unique history. Choose stylish home accents and accessories made from 
recycled timbers, steel, papers, bike parts, vinyl records, materials, china plates and more!
Have fun styling your home with these 60’s inspired solar powered night lights (from $64.95), made from recycled steel by The Original Metal Box Company or get people talking at your next dinner party with these funky Resource Revival Bottle Openers, $14.95, made using recycled bike chains!
Brighten up your home with eco friendly accessories such as these Manor12 hemp tea towel packs, $79.95, or these organic cotton Blizzard cushion covers by Fluf, $69.95 each.
Choose from a wide array of beautifully designed, solar powered products, such as these pieces from Lexon – the Safe Bamboo Wall Clock, $149 and the Greenman Solar Lamp, $99, for indoor or outdoor use.
A great way to go green is to choose products for your home that have been made using natural, chemical-free, and renewable materials such as organic cotton, hemp, and bamboo. These materials are fantastic in ma
ny ways – they’re good for you, good for your family, and good for the planet. Organic cotton is grown without the use of pesticides or fertilisers, which not only affect our health, but which also cause environmental damage when they pollute the soil, air and water. Hemp and bamboo are both 
people and planet friendly, due to the fact that they require far fewer chemicals than cotton, and are some of the fastest growing plants in the world (meaning that they can be replaced with new plants much more quickly than a new tree, for instance, can grow).
A fantastic way 
to not only help the environment, but also save on 
your power bills, is to take advantage of the great range of solar powered products now available. Using the power of the sun (by converting sunlight into electricity), solar products are becoming more readily available every year due to their dual benefits.
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