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Even Stagers Can Green the Earth

Today is Earth Day so I will share what I personally do in my business to be more eco-friendly!

(from google: what would you do for earth day ‘08?)

Staging can be a wasteful industry, because we purchase, use and transport a lot of furnishing day in and day out. Here are a few things that I do to be more eco-friendly:

*Reduce garbage, reduce overhead– I plastic wrap most of my hard furnishing to protect them during transport, consequently we used to go through plastics like crazy. Moreover, we have a lot of cardboard boxes that came with the furnishing that we ordered. When I buy accessories, they also come with a lot of wrapping papers and plastic bags. I now reuse plastic wraps, re-purpose the cardboard boxes and reuse the plastic bags & tissue papers.

The Results worked toward my favor: less plastic wraps to buy, MUCH less garbage to throw away, much easier on the overhead. When the plastic wraps are super tired out, we use those as wrapping materials instead. I also cut apart cardboard boxes to put between the artwork to protect them. Moreover, I don’t buy trash bags at all, I just reuse the ones we got from the store. Oh, as a former yoga teacher, I also accumulated a lot of lost and found yoga mats from teaching. Those became the bottom layers of my artwork shelves to protect the frames from being scratched on raw wood.

*Build things consciously– I hired people to build custom shelves in my warehouse and we use screws instead of nails for putting the shelves together. Because screws can easily (Read more …)

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Posted by Cindy Lin @ Staged4more, ASPM, IAHSP, IRIS on 04/22/2008 11:27 PM

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3 Comments on Even Stagers Can Green the Earth

Cindy, the Yoga Mat idea is great. You also can make "accessory sized pillow cases" to fit around your accessories out of sweatshirts and towels.... doesn't have to be pretty!

04/22/2008 11:34 PM

by Staging & Interior Redesign ~Seattle to Tacoma~ Julianna Hind, IRIS, RESA, DCI (ROOMSPINNERS Redesign ~ Seattle, Kent, North Bend, Puyallup )

This is a good reminder of how eco-friendly practices make sense and cents.

04/23/2008 09:25 AM

by Rosario Lewis ~ DDR Realty, Orange County, NY (DDR Realty)

Good for you! We all need to incorporate this type of thinking in all of our daily activities...not just at home!

04/23/2008 04:31 PM

by Lake Norman Real Estate ~ Diane Aurit (RE/MAX at the Lake)

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