5 Ways To Make Your Home Greener This Month

2022-07-02 00:15:55 By : Mr. Yi Sui

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Our pick of July's top sustainable products and ideas for your home.

Our homes are places that reflect the things we love, whether through our choice of colour, framed photographs or carefully selected pieces of furniture. But with three quarters of us now worried about climate change, our homes can also be places that reflect our environmental values. After all, there's no better place to start making more sustainable, eco-friendly choices – and buying eco doesn't mean sacrificing on style.

Here at House Beautiful, we have selected five eco buys to ensure your interiors are sustainable and on trend, from refillable cleaning products to tableware made from recycled beach waste. Take a look at our top picks...

Keeping your home germ free doesn’t have to involve harmful chemicals and toxins. Colt and Willow’s plant-based cleaning products won’t damage the environment and are packaged in refillable glass bottles – win-win. Cleaners are £12, with 1L refills for £8.

Eating your dinner off a pair of old flip flops may not sound instantly appealing, but bear with us… Cornish eco-brand LIGA has combined ocean plastic waste (such as flip flops) with its signature sustainable cork to create the colourful ‘Beach Clean’ range of tableware and stationary. These placemats are £28 for a set of four.

Swedish writer Ida Magntorn proves that low-impact can be lovely in her new book, The Sustainable Home (£14.99, Pavilion Books). Packed with great ideas and lots of inspiration, there's advice on everything from energy saving lighting and sourcing second-hand furniture, to choosing natural paint and how to go on a plastic diet.

No trees are harmed in the harvesting of cork; the top cork layer is simply removed when the tree is 25 years old and then it regrows. Renewable, sustainable and very pleasingly tactile – and, at the end of its life, it naturally biodegrades. This Echo cork planter is made by Mind the Cork.

The new Miller Harris reed diffusers are perfect for bringing a long-lasting scent to your home. Aromatic plant-based oils have been teamed with natural sustainable reeds and pretty glass bottles, which can be recycled or reused. The six scents have also been formulated for a better 'throw' (how well a scent fills the room).

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