Eco-friendly interiors: discover our experts' tips for eco-designing your home!

Eco-friendly furnishing is a new Interior Design trend that brings to market furniture and fittings built and designed with full respect for the environment and energy efficiency. In this new Pixtury guide, we'll give you some tips for creating your dream home in line with the principles of eco-design. We'll also suggest a range of photos you can use as original canvas prints to decorate your walls, echoing the tones of eco-friendly décor.

1. Furnishing your eco-friendly home with eco-design

Decorating is one of the many ways to express your personality, and eco-friendly furnishing lets you combine business with pleasure. Do you want a chic, refined home that is also furnished with materials that respect the environment and guarantee considerable energy savings? Eco-design is the choice for you! Here are some art photos that are ideal for creating your green, smart home of the future.

In recent decades, respect for the environment has become one of the cornerstones of Interior Design's new frontiers. Eco-friendly furniture no longer carries the excessive costs of the past; it is now within everyone's reach. Whether it's an office or a small room at home, the goal is the same: to respect the environment. Reuse, recycling and renewable resources are the defining features of “green” furnishing.

Reusing objects and materials that would otherwise be thrown away is very important, because it not only saves us money but also stops us adding to landfill. Giving objects a new purpose, different from the one they had before, takes a lot of creativity and practical skill. You can furnish creatively with pallets, using them as tables, or turn a fruit crate into a planter. There are no set rules, and every new idea adds an extra touch of personality to your home. For an even more eco-friendly home, a particularly good choice is to opt for a minimalist décor to reduce your consumption of the planet's resources.

Furniture and building material manufacturers have begun working with environmental engineers to guarantee products that come from renewable resources and respect the environment. Biodegradable materials have minimal environmental impact and, crucially, contain no toxic or harmful substances. This is especially important when decorating certain types of space, for example when furnishing a beauty salon. Today, structural work allows for better thermal insulation thanks to the possibilities offered by new materials and technologies.

2. The importance of lighting in an eco-friendly home

Lighting has brought major energy-saving innovations with LED lights. Snubbed for a long time, in recent years they have found their way into countless homes and become one of the most popular options. Their higher cost compared with incandescent bulbs is quickly recouped over time thanks to the considerable energy savings and longer lifespan they offer. LED lighting is also very versatile and offers a range of solutions to suit everyone's needs. Wall décor plays a very important role in good lighting, especially if you've decided to decorate your home mainly in white. With that in mind, we recommend pictures and prints from our collection that are well suited to creating a lighting effect.

In eco-friendly décor, natural light takes on great importance and should be used to the full: it's more effective, it's free and it causes no pollution of any kind. To brighten dark areas not reached by artificial lighting, a skylight can be a good idea, letting you make the most of natural light without using energy.

3. Sustainable materials for eco-design

Choosing the right materials is key to eco-friendly furnishing, using recycled wood, ceramics and glass at affordable prices. Choosing natural materials is especially important in certain styles, such as Nordic Scandinavian décor or oriental décor for a zen home. For walls, non-toxic paints free from volatile organic compounds, known as VOCs, and PVC-free wallpapers printed with water-based inks have become commonplace. Wooden floors should carry FSC certification (a forestry certification guaranteeing that the product comes from ethically managed forests) and have a non-toxic finish. Many companies now sell parquet made from reclaimed wood from old buildings or barns. Its weathered look will add a unique note to your rooms. Did you find this article interesting? Then share it with your friends. And if you need prints or pictures for your eco-friendly décor, explore our collection of art photos and you'll find the right images for you!