What is Environmental Design?

Series Summary

Natural decorating is all about adorning your home with all natural items. Environmentally friendly decorating can be beautiful, and it also helps protect the environment. It is a great way to bring in the elements of the outdoors, indoors. From the couch to the walls natural décor can exist in every part of your home.

Learn more about natural decorating from our expert, a professional environmental decorator. This video series will introduce the concept of natural decoration. Our expert will walk through all parts of the home and show home you can bring in natural design. There are a multitude of options for flooring within the confines of the design. Natural carpets, terrazzo tile and bamboo and cork flooring can be incorporated in the home to bring in the natural elements. This series will teach some of the do’s and don'ts of environmental design. Applying natural design will allow you to help the environment and live in a stunning, natural home. You'll even learn how to build your own environmentally friendly straw bale home in this series of videos!

Video Transcript

"Hello, I’m Shelley Jones, and today I’m going to introduce you to environmental design. I’ve had an interest in the environment in particular and just building clean homes, I have taught classes, everything from straw bale, rammed earth, adobe, you name it, cobb, and I also help people decorate their homes in a natural environmentally friendly healthy way.

Many products commonly used in our homes may be hazardous to our health. Labeling laws also make it difficult to know exactly what is in many products. Today more and more people are recognizing the dangers of many products and choosing safer ones. Their actions are in turn bringing even more healthful and environmentally sound products to the marketplace. While reducing our personal exposure to toxics in our home is an important step, there is a bigger issue at hand. We must also consider how our actions as consumers affect other people, species and the planet as a whole. Every time we make a purchase to fulfill our individual needs we also make a choice that affects the environmental quality of the world we live in.

I’m going to give you some basic specific information on how to make the best choices and take the best actions to live in a way that is good for humans and good for the earth. We need to learn how to live nontoxic, natural, and earthwise."