Green Home Ideas & Inspiration

Are you looking for a safer alternative to traditional interior paints? Read this guide to learn how to choose the right type of products for painting projects that will yield great results with a less negative impact on the planet and your family’s health. Here’s what you need to know about buying non-toxic paint safe for you and the environment.

Keep your home clean and safe from harsh chemicals with these natural products and DIY cleaner recipes.

Heating systems tend to rob the air of much-needed moisture content, leaving you with itchy skin, stuffed sinuses, and poor air quality. These DIY humidifier ideas will help increase your home’s humidity for a more comfortable environment.

Air purifiers create cleaner, healthier air that eases breathing and assists with allergies. In this review, we look at the best air purifiers on the market today.

A green home is house that’s both healthy for the environment and for its occupants, with the main criteria being energy efficiency, sustainability, durability, and human health.

While a tight, well-insulated home is great for saving energy, trapping lots of stale air indoors can undermine your health. Here’s what you need to know to ensure that the quality of the air inside is healthy and free from harmful pollutants.

Protect your health by choosing one of these non-toxic materials for your cabinets.

Easy ways to improve your home during the summer

Simple ways to improve your home this month

Once drafty and underinsulated, a New England house gets a state-of-the-art efficiency makeover

Cut energy bills and reduce the strain on the environment with a roof covered in sedums

Learn about everyday houseplants that do double duty clearing out pollutants in your indoor air.

A new evaluation tool looks at more than just green building materials when deciding if a house is energy efficient

This inexpensive kitchen staple—the distilled white kind, that is—can multitask in any room of the house.

Why a pediatrician mom chose nontoxic kitchen cabinets for her young family's vintage home

How do they do it? By putting power-saving technologies to work inside their homes. You can do the same

Deck the halls with these stylish and recycled, all-natural, eco-friendly items

How one couple remodelled and expanded a 1940 cottage with their children's future in mind

A California utility develops a plug-in hybrid that keeps the house lights on for you

Here are some low-stress steps to take around the house to reduce your carbon footprint, create a healthier home, and lower your monthly bills to boot

The question is why? After all, they're within reach-right in your kitchen cupboard.

Who says your garden has to be on the ground? An environmentally friendly trend grows—on rooftops.

Giving up carbs and quitting smoking are hard. Saving money, conserving energy, and making the world a better place are easy

Playrooms made with healthy, fun, durable, eco-friendly materials