How to Make Your Bedroom Eco-Friendly

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Improve the planet and your health, and get a better night's sleep, to boot, by greening your bedroom.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Organic bedding
Restored furniture
"Green" paint
Wood floors
Natural fiber rugs
Energy-efficient light bulbs
Dimmer switch
Cotton nighties

Step 1: Change your sheets

When it's time to buy new bedding, look for sheets made from organic or chemically untreated cotton, hemp, or bamboo, which even big wholesale chains now carry. And make sure your next mattress is made from organic cotton, wool, or natural latex or rubber.

Step 2: Buy pillows

At night, rest your head on a pillow filled with natural stuffing, like feathers and down, natural latex, organic cotton or wool, buckwheat or millet hulls, or recycled polyester fill.

Step 3: Find old furniture

Find old furniture at flea markets—it's usually higher quality than modern stuff at comparable prices. Almost any piece can look brand new with a little work.

Tip: If you must buy new furniture, look for pieces made without glue or chemicals.

Step 4: Use "green" paint

Go with paint marked low- or no-VOCs, meaning they don't release the fumes from volatile organic compounds.

Step 5: Ditch wall-to-wall carpeting

Ditch the wall-to-wall carpeting in favor of wood floors (recycled wood, preferably) and throw rugs made of natural fibers like sisal, bamboo, sea grass, and organic cotton.

Step 6: Dim all the lights

Replace the light bulbs in your bedroom with energy-saving low-watt compact fluorescent ones, and install a dimmer.

Step 7: Sleep in cotton

Sleep in organic cotton nightwear and you won't spend your nights feeling guilty about wearing PJs made from pesticide-laden cotton treated with formaldehyde. Now enjoy sweet, green dreams.

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[YankoBG94]

I swear howcast are getting more and more boring with every video : /

[S34Nowns]

fail

[gamaray826]

wait hemp is weed right so you could just smoke you bed sheets

[Hadra568]

@rafadasilvafan

Um, it doesn't because hemp and marijuana are two different things and you cannot get high from hemp

[JosephaEdman]

Great info. Thanks.

[salbador101]

=bedbugs

[ecocycle121]

fantastic ideas!!

[MYChemicalLyrics]

okay, im gunna throw out all my stuff into a landfill to buy this stuff

[usedcardboardboxes]

This is a great video. 

[rafadasilvafan]

if it is made from hemp and theres a fire what happens when everyone dies because there so high it makes them go into a deep unconscous state?

[ROFLKitty34]

@mustashlol Yes, you have a point. Where does all this wood and bamboo come from i wonder?