From product designs that are “planet-friendly” to sustainable cities, architects, engineers, and designers are increasingly providing answers to prepare the future of our planet. Buildings that “greenify” the world’s cities, whose conception integrates architecture and horticulture into a sustainable whole.
Image of a café with the concept of ecological architecture
Sustainability is trending, and we are increasingly aware of eliminating plastic consumption, generating less waste, supporting local trade, and recycling… In the realm of decoration, we can seek guidance from interior decorators in Barcelona to renew and make our homes increasingly sustainable and responsible every day.
We propose 5 ideas to improve the atmosphere of your home through apartment renovations in Barcelona to carry out your projects, whether partial or comprehensive, with entirely organic and sustainable materials without sacrificing design and comfort.
1-Start by reducing energy consumption at home:
– Is it time to change windows and doors? To avoid cold, heat, or external noise, insulate your home by installing recycled aluminum windows with thermal break. As a result, we reduce CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Did you know that all aluminum used in construction is recycled? That’s why aluminum is a noble material, just like wood.
– Class A appliances: this energy class consumes less energy, helping us save money and the environment. Although the initial outlay may be somewhat higher, in the end, we save 45% of energy.
– Turn off lights and switch to LED: because they last longer than traditional bulbs, you’ll save energy, emit less heat, and save on your electricity bill.
Kitchen with LED lights
Climate control your home with aerothermal energy: These heat pumps provide cooling in summer and heating in winter – also for underfloor heating – and even for hot water throughout the year. It’s a clean and sustainable installation because it extracts up to 77% of energy from the air.
2-Replace plastic with natural materials
Natural elements like wood, glass, organic fabrics, and natural fibres breathe better and their production doesn’t harm the environment. Additionally, they have the quality of lasting longer and not only being eco-friendly but also caring for your skin and thus your health.
Images of Nanimarquina’s latest collection “Colors” and “Flora”, the latter designed by Santi Moix.
Good examples of sustainability are the designs by Nanimarquina, who use traditional artisanal techniques to create contemporary rugs with natural resources, ensuring that the choice of materials, processes, and techniques is as environmentally friendly as possible. They use biodegradable products, free of chemicals, and the quality of their items makes them durable and recyclable rugs
3-Add a touch of personality with recycled materials
April 22nd is Earth Day, and every year reducing, reusing, and recycling become more relevant. Because having a more eco-friendly home doesn’t mean stopping consumption but caring about the origin of materials.
Living room with eco furniture – recycled aluminum lamp with led light designed by the OGSB studio.
Wooden shelf held by ropes, sailboat made from a log, flower pot using a tray
4-Optimize space to forget about “it doesn’t fit”
Investing in space-saving furniture is ideal for apartments with limited capacity, and here is where products like the cardboard bed from Pro Idee are very useful.
The front section is made of bamboo and the rest has an accordion design with an adjustable cushion. It supports up to 300 kg.
Don’t know how to use a corner? One solution is to build a dressing room and shelves at the head of the bed.
Other designs to optimize space are wooden built-in shelves.
Benches: In the dining room, U-shaped benches optimize space by replacing chairs that take up more space. Bench with drawers to make use of the space under the window.
5-More wood and less synthetic material
Design and organic, a perfect marriage of beauty and utility. Wood is a basic material in home decoration, on floors, walls, cabinets, doors… it conveys quality and is also a material that becomes more beautiful with age. Wood warms up, it’s warmer in winter and cooler in summer, thus maintaining the ideal humidity and regulating temperature.
Their goal is for you to be able to preserve the product for a lifetime and for the pieces to adapt to the needs of each moment.
If we want a sustainable home, we’ll have to opt for these types of renovations. The environment will thank our changes because a reduction in consumption, organic products, recycling, or buying more durable pieces is choosing a cleaner planet.
