You can have a very interesting and unique decorating scheme throughout your house by basing it on green living.  How do you achieve this?  Through repurposing old items and bringing nature into the house are two ways.  Another way is to use things that come from renewable resources.

Repurposing Old Items

Instead of throwing out that old child’s desk redo the finish on with some fresh stain or new paint.  It can then be used as a decorative unit to place flowers on underneath that large window which is a bare area right now.  Don’t get rid of all those old Mason jars sitting in the basement.  Use soy wax, which is natural, and make candles using the mason jars for the wax’s container.  These jars also make great storage for nuts, bolts, nails and other small items especially when you have the lids too.

Old clothing can even be repurposed as cleaning cloths, other clothing, or even blankets if you do quilting.  You can cut old shirts into strips of cloth and crochet rugs out of these strips.  What a marvelous way to repurpose something.  You know that old bucket that has a leak in it?  Why not turn it into a planter.  You can stick an old plate under it and maybe place a few more drainage holes in it.  See how this repurposing is green living, it keeps all sorts of things out of landfills.

Bringing Nature into Your House

You can bring nature into your house quite easily.  Driftwood, fallen branches from trees, cattails, stems of pussy willow, various cut flowers, and dried flowers too are just some of the things to bring in from the outside.  With the dried flowers you can actually dry your blooms yourself.

Make arrangements in various sections of your house with these natural ornaments.  Let’s not forget the pine cones or acorns too.  These make unique accent pieces.  You can even decorate pine cones with other recyclable items to fit whichever room you are putting them.

Renewable Resources

Select your decorating needs from renewable resources.  This means cotton, linen, or bamboo fabrics along with bamboo or rush furniture.  When you use those elements that are renewable you cut down on the risk of depleting on non-renewable resource.  Also look into how the materials were grown.  If you choose organic cotton over regular cotton it has been grown using no chemicals and is processed in the same manner.

Let’s not forget about silk fabric which has been a natural fabric from the beginning of its use many years ago.  So many fine pieces and useful items have been made from silk.

These are just a few ideas for decorating your house in a green-living manner.  Come up with some ways of your own too.  It is just keeping nature in mind along with repurposing remember.  So it is very easy to do and makes your home a very comfortable and unique place to live.