For your back and for the environment, for your money and for your health, latex mattresses are a terrific investment. Sears used to sell them in the 1950s and some reports have shown that these very ones are still in use. Imagine never having to buy another mattress! Now imagine picking up a mattress you found while dumpster diving. Yes, sleeping in a traditional mattress is about as unhealthy. Why? Not only do they off-gas, they harbor all those little insects you’ve only heard about on Discovery programs. Latex styles, however, are insect and mold/mildew resistant. Discover more about the healthy, environmentally and financially sustainable benefits to buying a latex sleep throne at HealthyFoundations.com.
In the continuing series on tips to save money, SpaceDesignJournal would like to share some creative efforts an interior designer, an architects and an architectural salvage expert. These are free or low cost methods that demonstrate ingenuity and are easily replicable in your own home.
But first, what is architectural salvage?
Nichole: How does the greenie mantra of reduce, reuse, recycle apply to what you do professionally? Jedd Heap, architect: For our office we reused a 1952 grocery building and built it out to serve our needs. You can look at it on a larger scale, don’t knock the building down; add to it, renovate it. Then you get into the smaller scales of the interiors and smaller components. Jesse White, architectural salvage expert: We at Architectural Salvage take a four-core approach to it. Repair, refurnish, restore and repurpose— that’s the greening through salvage. You can repair what you have in your house. That’s the first level because you’re keeping it in place and that’s the least amount of impact. Take a door, for instance. Refurbishing it is taking it off its hinges, sanding it down and restaining it. Repurposing it is making it into something else like a bench. Shawn DeHart, interior designer: I’ve got concrete counter tops in my kitchen. The company didn’t put the right sealer on it and when it got stained, they replaced it for me. So I took the stained one and used it as a seat on a bench by the firepit. It’s 850 pounds and took five of us to get it out to the firepit…. Jesse: Yeah, and that’s half a ton you kept out of the landfills. Plus all the transportation costs to take it to the landfill, all the gas it would have taken.
SpaceDesignJournal isn’t the only media outlet pondering paramount set design issues. Remember when people debated whether it was the Wegner chair that sealed the deal in Kennedy’s debate with Nixon? Seems Phil Patton of The New York Times Week in Review agrees.
In an article Nichole L. Reber wrote two years ago for a Sarasota, Fla. edition of Housetrends, one Danish couple couldn’t see beyond Danish Modern. Watch DK Vogue’s video all about that magnificently designed and constructed piece.
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