How To Make Your Home Eco Friendly

Making your house environment friendly can serve as your contribution towards the worldwide efforts against global warming, which has gripped the globe and promises to worsen as time passes. Taking measures to make an eco-friendly home will also save you a considerable expenditure on your energy uses. An eco-friendly home is a like a natural haven for its inhabitants, isolated from the noisy and polluted world outside. Making our immediate environment eco-friendly will also have a soothing and relaxing effect on our mind. You will be surprised to know that some simple measures can go a long way in making your home friendly to nature. In case you wish to know some useful tips on how to make your home eco-friendly, follow the article.

Making Your House Environment Friendly

Save energy! One of the easiest ways to make your home eco-friendly is to save energy. Buy energy efficient appliances to cut down your energy consumption. Energy-efficient bulbs are easily available, prove inexpensive, and consume five times lesser energy than the ordinary bulbs. You can consider using motion sensor light bulbs as well.
A normal house loses half of its heat through its walls and roof. Insulating the roofs and walls of your home can help save energy as well as the huge amount of monthly electricity bill. The saved money will make up for the comparatively low initial cost of insulation.
While painting your walls, use water based, lead free paints as they are more eco-friendly than regular paints. For furnishing, choose natural fibers, such as cotton, linen or silk, instead of the synthetic ones.These fibers are less hazardous for human health and can also be re-cycled for future use.
Plan the kitchen in such a way that it is bright and airy so that you don’t have to switch the lights on during the day time, to work therein. Use the gas economically by assembling all the ingredients required for cooking in front of you, before you light the gas. Turn it to low, when so required.
Keep two dustbins in your house, one for collecting organic waste that can be recycled (e.g. fruit and vegetable peel, used tea leaves, leftover food etc) and another for collecting non-organic waste (tin, plastic etc). Empty the organic waste in your garden, as it will act as compost for your plants. Dispose off the non-organic waste as usual.
You can consider installing solar panels in your house to create your own energy. Around 50% of your annual hot water requirements can be met by installing one solar thermal plant. If you live in open countryside, mini home wind turbines can be really useful.
Dry your clothes naturally. Tumble driers consume a lot of electricity and don’t even dry your clothes completely. If some part of your ceiling is spare, you can install a drying rack than can be lowered to load the washed clothes, and then raised to the warmest part of the room to dry them naturally.

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