How to Make Your House a Green Home

Having a beautiful home is an exciting thing, but being able to fill your home with things that are good for the environment and create your own green homeis incredible. As companies and consumers become more aware of how our living effects the environment the production and demand for products that are eco-friendly and made from sustainable resources rises.Green homes are attainable with allthemany new products on the market from the very basic to the technologically enhanced. The following are some products and companies that produce earth friendly materials to make your own house a green home.

Porch Lighting

Matter Inc. has created a solar powered porch light that absorbs solar energy to power two LED lights throughout the night. The lights can be installed where you would normally have your regular porch light. Not only is this a more earth friendly option for your green home but I think the porch light is more attractive since it doubles as a way to display your address number. The porch light comes with LED solar aluminum porch numbers in silver or black, each number is laser cut so that the light shines through.

Home Flooring

Forbo Flooring specializes in makingenvironmentally friendly flooring from sustainable resources. Their Marmoleum is a multi purpose natural floor that is toxin free and can be easily installed into your green home. The marmoleum comes in two options, the marmoleum can be installed with adhesive and marmoleum Click is installed without any adhesives. Forbo also has hardwood available that is environmentally friendly.

Building Materials

Weyerhaeuser is a lumber company that makes it products from fast growing trees that do not overwhelm the environment.Weyerhaeuser does not make any of its products from tropical rainforest goods or old growth forests.