Tiny Choosing New Curtains
By Jenn (TinyChoices.com) | November 30, 2011
I’m loving my sweet little new apartment, which has an abundance of large windows which let the bright sunlight in. Ever think you’d have the problem of having a too-bright kitchen? Me either! I’m not complaining- I love that kitchen!- but it gets so bright that I can’t see the flame on the stovetop during the day.
So, I need to make curtains, and a lot of them: four for the kitchen, two for the bedroom, two for the living room (including a full-length french door set), and one for the hallway… this adds up to a lot of fabric. Which, naturally, brings me to thinking about the eco-best way to bring these curtains into my life and my home.
The greenest curtain choice would be to find used curtains, but they seem to be a rarity in this town. I could shop for them on eBay but to be honest, I don’t have much time to wait for auctions to end- my neighbors are loving the free show every night! In addition, I’d like to have some choice over the aesthetics of my window coverings, instead of settling for whatever someone happens to be selling… because of these reasons, used curtains aren’t the best option for me this time around.
I went to the fabric store to see what I could find. There are some cotton fabrics there but no organic cotton choices, and seeing as how cotton is the most pesticide-laden crop in the United States, those fabrics don’t necessarily end up being any greener than the nylon or polyester fabrics, just a different kind of polluting.
So I ended up sorting through the remnants bin in the back of the store, and low and behold I found all the perfect fabrics I needed; scrap pieces which would have otherwise been tossed out as bits of trash. Pieced together creatively, they’ll make beautiful curtains to cover all of these windows, and at a fraction of the price of buying fabrics by the yard.
In the end my new curtains are not as green as buying used, but not quite as black as buying “new”- perhaps this is familiar to you as the eco-middle ground many of us frequently find ourselves in.
Have you decided on an eco-middle ground choice recently?
[Image by msnc via Creative Commons]
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