Casa e Cose

Recycle garbage and make cute signs: from lovely blogger Me and Alice.

Ateranvand gammalt skrap och gor sota skyltar utav: fran underbara bloggare Me and Alice.

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Modern solutions:

Smart homes:We dont want the speaking fridge but what we do applaude it when service, technique and care goes hand in hand. For example, alarms, locks and surveilance is taken care of and superviced from you mobile and can be stored in your computer. A heating system that regulates itself dipending on the needs of the owner. A system that works remote controlled with one device for all the entertainment in the home such as tv and internet.

Green thumb: The intrest for gardens and greens are enourmous and you dont need to live in a villa in order to live out your passion for getting dirt under your nails! The new trend is urban farming, comunity farming and farming on your balcony. You want to grow your own veggies!

Energy efficiant: Houses that are so well isolated that they in principle does not use any energy at all. More people are looking to produce their own energy through suncells, using the wind etc. Heating is done with the help of sun catchers and pellets. New EU directives makes demands that makes it allmost impossible to build houses that are heated with electricity – practically banned

Flexibility: If you are one week a big family with 4 kids and every other week just 2 adults then it would be good to be able to open up or seperate room for example with movable walls, sliding doors and hidden sleeping cots. Today in Sweden the norms and rules of reconstruction your house are very details and complicated and puts a stop to all personal solutions. Read the rest of this entry »

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Urban farming is a trend we’ve been following for years, but between the recession and the recent focus on sustainability, it’s showing no sign of slowing down. The latest spotting? French Bacsac, which offers a line of geotextile bags that can be used to transform any space into a growing, living garden.

The Bacsac is a lightweight and portable bag that can be used indoors or out, on terraces, balconies, rooftops and yards. Users simply fill the permeable bags with soil—there are versions in round pot shapes as well as divided squares for larger, modular gardens—and plant to their heart’s content. The bags are made of double-walled and fully recyclable geotextile fabric that maintains the necessary balance between air, soil and water; it’s also resistant to sun, frost and tears. Pot-sized Bacsacs range from 3- to 150-litre sizes, with hanging and window-box styles also available. Bacsquares range in size from two to 16 interior compartments. Custom sizes are also available. With prices starting at about EUR 15 for a 3-litre pot, Bacsac products are available at a variety of retailers worldwide.

from SPRINGWISE

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Fashion designer Ann Demeulmeester’s shop in Seou, South Korea by Massstudies.

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Most likely one of the most beautifull stores I have seen so far…and I have seen some.

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Books are to me one of the more precious art objects around. And they are originally trees that are natures masterpieces. What if we could merge the two? What a wonderfull idea no?

YES, that is just what two italians has thought of in their Gartenkultur project.

They take a book, they make a hole and they insulate thus protect the book from humidity with a mixture of vegetal glue that is a water based glossy varnish for wood, completely ecological. Then they fill the hole with soil and plant a tree that is ready to grow and live and prosper in this inovative book vase. This new ecological form of the book  is recycable, has been reycled and is a living breathing beautifull decoration interior object for your home. Its really really pretty to look at – especially for one like me that loves plants and books. Currently they are only available stores in northern Italy but soon they will also have an on-line shop.

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In my search for a way to have a garden in my garden-less and balcony-less apartment I came across this project Windowfarming. It is genious: it is very decorative, you will have greens and fresh herbs at hand when cooking and the best one yet: you use recycled local materials to build it yourself….and it works for most of the people who have tried it so, why wouldn’t it do it for me.

Take a look on the video below and then join the project! Let’s make our city greener together!

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Would it not be wonderfull to be able to grow fresh air? Actually it should not be that complicated. We all now that plants is vital if we want to keep living on this earth so lets grow more plants. But what plants? Are there any plants that do the trick better then others?

Please check out this video from Kamal Meattle – it is very interesting and it is fairly common plants that you can get from your local market. Another plus is that it will actually make your home look even more beautiful.

Green is beautiful!

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Home Farming, as the name suggests, explores growing at least part of your daily food inside your house. “People are increasingly concerned about how their food has been manipulated and processed, genetic modification, global shortages, environmental degradation through monoculture, the distance food travels before reaching their plates and many other related issues,” says van Heerden. “One way of addressing such legitimate concerns is to source the food yourself by having a biosphere in your living room.” This Biophere home farm contains fish, crustaceans, algae, plants and other mini-ecosystems, all interdependent and in balance with each other. Making families all over the world at least partly self-sufficient in this way has obvious appeal.

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