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Growing Spaces Going Green
I'm Zem Joaquin, I am editor in chief and founder of ecofabulous.com, a website devoted to
style and sustainability. I really wanted my kids' rooms to be fun and inviting,
and exciting for them and for their friends, but of course they still had to be environmentally
conscious. My daughter had this kitchen that she was so madly in love with, the little pink
kitchen, so the whole design approach was, let's work around this kitchen and many houses
do that so it seemed totally appropriate. My daughter wanted something that was stylish,
a little bit edgy, but of course she's a little girl so she wanted lots of pink, so we used the pottery barn
organic cotton sheets,
and we then used the old comforter cover that we had.
I found a vintage chandelier when I was at a flea market one day and then luckily I ended up finding a complimentary
mirror. We also did
of course non VOC paints on the walls, and then, she wanted something really glamorous so we added in the
silver cork floors, and then you've got the beautiful pink silk curtains
that kind of delineate the space so it feels like she's got a little stage behind her bedroom,
which is actually the bathroom.
We kept as much of the original tile
and finishes as we possibly could.
With my son's room, he was so in love with his speed boat style bed,
that we decided to create a space that really felt like the ocean.
You wanted it to feel like it was out in the middle of the water,
so we put that giant framed photo that puts you way in the water
and we did the blue floors so it feels like the boat is
truly sitting in the water. Then we complimented it with the traditional plantation shutters but I was
lucky enough to find shutters that were made out of sustainably harvested bamboo.
The bathroom was a lot of fun to create because he wanted it to feel kind of like part of the boat, so we were able to
find porthole mirrors, that
really created that feeling and we just played on it with the blue walls that are you know, again
It was really important for me to create spaces
an eco-friendly paint and it really created a truly nautical feeling, and that's what my son wanted.
that were fun, friendly, inviting and exciting to my children but was still totally sustainable.