Designer Lisa Kooistra recently gave her client’s dated home in South Burlington, Ontario, a sustainable makeover. Lisa explains how you to make the switch to sustainable design in five decorating categories and advises choosing low VOC paint, LED lighting, and locally sourced furniture. Lisa sourced bedding that won’t off gas chemicals, recyclable materials like wallpaper and concrete sinks, and nature-derived products like lime wash paint and natural clay tiles. Get all of her tips and tour her client’s healthy, happy home here!
SOURCES:
Countertops – Caesarstone
Powder Room Sink – Concretti sinks
Flooring – Fuzion
Fabrics – Maxwell
Hardware – top knobs
Paint – Benjamin Moore
Custom wood furniture – Rustic house interiors
Drapery – Q-design
Powder Room Wallpaper – Shumacher
Tiles – Cercan
Thumbnail Photography by Stephani Buchman
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18 Comments
Nice design!!!
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Radioactive porcelain wait what?!?
Did not know anything about existence of radioactive tiles until now 👀😳
This is difficult to listen to with a speaker who is an uptalker. Sorry if that's mean, but I'm just stating a fact. 🙁
This is such a colossal waste of time and effort. I have a very similar looking house and there is nothing eco friendly about it. Running a bar fridge 24 hours a day but don’t worry, the tiles were sustainably sourced
I love the overall color and style of the home!
Your tiles are “Radioactive Radioactive”
An eco-friendly home is anti consumerism. This is greenwashing. A waste of money, waste of resources, waste of energy, and is wasteful. Please stop, the planet depends on it.
Very responsible! 👏
What happened to real wood cabinets? Clients are being ripped off with this mfr crap!
How about you design a house that works for you and your family? Do you have to justify everything you do with the words eco-friendly or sustainable? What does that mean in reality?
looks good, but so sepia and dull at the same time. sad to be precise. and nothing is sustainable or off-gas!
Radioactive? Off gas? Could somebody kindly explain?
Beautiful beautiful
Recycled rubber would offgas; wool is absolutely not eco-friendly.
I'm surprised you didn't mention formaldehyde free cabinets.
Great video! Superful helpful ideas.