By Jennifer Roberts
Redux offers a host of solutions for creating a green home with recycled, reused, and environmentally healthy materials, whether remodeling, redecorating, or building from the ground up. This book combines extensive salvage use with the larger goal of efficiency and environmentalism.
With a focus on healthfulness, durability, and comfort, Roberts has assembled a collection of living spaces so innovative that it will turn the idea of "salvage" on its head. They span the spectrum of reuse, exemplifying the countless steps that homeowners can take to put a stamp of beauty and individuality on their home while providing the added benefits of being earth-friendlier, healthier, more self-reliant, and more efficient. For each case study, she offers a "Reuse Recap" and a"More Green Features" list.
Roberts offers straightfoward suggestions for including salvaged and recycled materials in your home, such as:
•Fly ash in concrete (see Making Better Concrete by Bruce King)
•Reclaimed wood flooring
•Conventional materials with recycled content
•Secondhand or antique furniture
•Recycled-glass countertops
Included are chapters that focus on Renovation (energy efficiency, salvaging, where to find good old stuff), Adaptation (preservation, old stuff to avoid, restoration) and New Construction (ecologically intelligent design, straw bale, and green architects).
Whether it's salvaging lumber from a demolition site or choosing double-paned windows and chemically safe paints, this book will provide hundreds of ways to make old things new again.
160 pages, 2005, Hardcover
Table of Contents
Introduction
Renovation
Modernism Redux - Alexandria, Virginia
No House is an Island - Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
Out on a Limb - Contra Costa County, California
Spare Parts - Berkeley, California
Adaptation
Turning Koo's Corner - Vancouver, British Columbia
A Very Cool Icehouse - Brooklyn, New York
What Goes Around Comes Around - Los Angeles, California
New Construction
Beauty & Brains - Garnerville, Nevada
Putting it Back Together - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Back to Basics - Healdsburg, California
Principles into Practice - Belmont, California
Glossary
References
Resources
Thanks
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