Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home A Sourcebook for Stylish, Eco-Conscious Living

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2022-09-13
Publisher(s): Artisan
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Summary

Learn how to make planet-friendly choices at home with the design experts behind Remodelista.com

There’s no reason to sacrifice beauty, because this hardworking visual guide reveals a personalized, future-minded approach to creating a sustainable—and stylish—home by emphasizing conscientious consumerism and climate-aware choices.
 
In this book, you’ll visit a remodeled apartment inspired by the Slow Food movement, a DIY tree-house cabin, a multigenerational courtyard compound, and a family home built from hemp. There are tips on practices that reduce your environmental impact room by room, like adopting a gentler laundry routine, as well as eco-conscious guidelines for choosing nontoxic paint, upgrading windows, and eliminating plastic.
 
Change begins in the home, and it’s inspiring to learn how such steps, no matter how small, contribute to the greater good.
 
Including:
  • Low-impact remodeling ideas and approaches for every room
  • Planet-friendly essentials: lightbulbs, paint, rugs, furniture, and more
  • The Vintage 75: favorite tried-and-true objects for everyday use
  • Plus the lowdown on composting, roofing, insulation, HVAC, and more

Author Biography

Margot Guralnick is the coauthor of Remodelista: The Organized Home, writer/producer of Remodelista: A Manual for the Considered Home, and a longstanding member of the Remodelista team. Though based in the Bronx, she grew up outside of Boston, and practices New England thriftiness as a way of life. She has been a vintage collector since childhood, and makes botanical art from fallen leaves.
 

Fan Winston is a long-time magazine editor and founding editor of the Organized Home, a companion website to Remodelista. She is thrilled to co-write a book with her fellow Remodelista team member that champions the same principles—a respect for nature, a distaste for wastefulness—her Chinese immigrant parents have instilled in her since childhood. In addition to working on this project, as a library board trustee in her town of Maplewood, New Jersey, she’s helping shepherd the construction of an all-electric, LEED-certified public library.

Table of Contents

Contents
 
Introduction
The Low-Impact Manifesto
Call to Action: 7 Easy Habit Shifts
 
1 | 12 Low-Impact Houses and Gardens
 
2 | Room by Room
Lessons for a Greener Way of Living
 
3 | Eco-Conscious Household Basics
A Cheat Sheet
 
4 | The Remodelista Vintage 75
Favorite Objects for Everyday Use
 
5 | The Low-Impact Living Primer
Fuss-Free DIYs for Household Upkeep and Improvement
 
6 | The Inner Workings
Roofing, Insulation, HVAC, and More
 
7 | Resources
 
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Photography Credits
Index

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