Good Design – Twist On Materials
Good design is seeing things in simple, fundamental relationships or in their essence. This leads to seeing materials with fresh eyes. Sometimes it’s seeing the potential in what others treat as discarded items. Discovering the uniqueness in materials, or using materials differently can lead to good design. Often, people have…
Priority Health And Natural Gas Cooking
What is the statement appliance in today’s kitchen? For many homeowners, it is the professional-looking, gas-fired cooktop, or range. Designers and magazines have been putting forward the notion that the robust-looking gas burners elevate the kitchen to a professional, or “Chef’s Kitchen”. Who wouldn’t want that? Caution. Priority health, healthy…
2021 A New Year – A New Beginning
You don’t have to be an astrology enthusiast who is looking at big planetary shifts this year to know of the change into the Aquarian Age. The big change is noticeably in the air with new thinking, new actions, and new beginnings in 2021. It’s a year to shift your…
Closets by Design
Look into someone’s closet and you discover the personality of the resident in the house, condo, or apartment. This truth applies to large dressing room type closets, and to the smallest of closets in traditional, older homes. Knowingly or not, we are all designers of our closets. Let’s explore this…
2020 Top Quality Of Living Holiday Gifts
Instead of gifts that sit on a shelf, this article presents 2020 Holiday gifts that create a better quality of living in your home. Gifts that create smart healthy green living are meaningful. Some might call them life-changing. Let’s call them “Better Living Holiday Gifts”. These gifts add to the…
Good Morning Beautiful
“Good morning beautiful” should be the response to ourselves every morning after a refreshing, luxuriating, and uplifting shower experience. The overall feeling of well-being is a combination of a feeling of immediate personal well-being and being in harmony with the world around us. Let’s take a closer look at how…
Be Adventurous With Concrete
What’s your next DIY project? How about venturing into the world of concrete. Here are some ways to be adventurous with concrete. We think of concrete as a material for hard-core construction. Foundations, walkways, and driveways come to mind. But actually, concrete is a fantastic material to get into cool…
Smart Robot Vacuum For A Happy Weekend
A Happy Weekend starts with a clean house. The idea that your smart robot vacuum can clean the floors in your house after dinner or quietly every night while you sleep is appealing. Kids, pets, traffic in and around the house create constant and seemingly never-ending grit and grime on…
Gentle Yoga In A Tiny House
Might you be interested in a tiny house? What’s behind this big trend? What does a tiny house offer? Hear from one enthusiastic homeowner of a tiny house that she had custom-designed for her lifestyle that is centered around gentle yoga in her tiny house. Watch…
Deep Dive Into Passive House
Passive House stands for a highly efficient house that is built to be energy consumption neutral. Sometimes, it is also referred to as a “net-zero house”. This article will give you a deep dive look into this exciting green building trend of Passive House. The PassiveHouse movement started in Darmstadt,…
Find Out How Ice/Snowmelt Effects The Plumbing In Your House
Magnesium Chloride is one snow and ice melt chemical with a known negative environmental impact. The actual “environmental impact” is way more personal – over time, it will have a direct bearing on our homes and our lives. Surprised? Find out how: Spreading of Magnesium Chloride There are two widespread…
Call For Pumpkins To Compost Now
When summer is over and harvest colors appear, pumpkins soon follow. We love them to get our homes ready for Halloween and to make pumpkin pies. It’s all part of a tradition. And so is the habit of tossing spoiled food into our garbage bins, including those, once spoiled pumpkins.…
1000 Thread Count Sheets Or Less Is More
Interior designers love to talk about the furniture layout of living rooms, kitchens, newly created basement spaces, and bedrooms. That’s fine but let’s dig a little deeper into design goods, and specifically, bedding or sheets that you should purchase for your newly designed bedroom. Should you buy 1000 thread count…
Build Your Own Sustainable Furniture This Weekend
Making sustainable furniture with your own hands is a really satisfying experience. It’s a great counterpoint to the abstract digital world that surrounds us. Make it one of your fun weekend projects. Get inspired by 4 different designers/woodworkers from around the globe on Smart Healthy Green Living. These experts share…
Want to Truly Eat Fresh Cut Herbs And Vegetables?
Fresh cut herbs and vegetables are just the best. We head out to the supermarket to buy so-called fresh-cut herbs and veggies. The reality is that the so-called fresh-cut herbs and vegetables have been already traveling from a farm somewhere along a supply chain of various distribution centers – for…
Wind Technology’s Huge Job Losses in Germany – a Deep Dive
Green technology and specifically wind turbine technology was promoted as a big part of sustainable, low carbon living in Northern European countries. The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and all of the Scandinavian nations invested heavily in wind turbines. So why are there so many wind turbine shutdowns today? Let’s take a…
Leaf Clean Up – the Green Living Way
Fall landscapes look so beautiful due to colorful leaves. The colors can be stunning. If you are a lover of trees like I am you know leaf clean-up awaits you every fall shortly after the leaves drop to the ground. Think about this aspect of trees in your garden design.…
Is Indigo White the Right White?
Finding The Right Shade Of White For Your Home White. Indigo White. Persia White. Dove White. Linen White. There are so many whites. HELP! How does one figure out the right white? The name, Indigo White sounds really nice but is it the right white? SHG Living’s Kelly Wilkness, the…
Fire Retardant – Wildfires, Furniture, Even inYour Kids Pajamas
It feels assuring to see large quantities of bright and colorful flame retardant dropped into a fire zone around the West Coast fires. Firemen are working hard to stop large fires using large quantities of fire retardants. Homes and properties hopefully will be saved. But what exactly is this fire…
House To Home – The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Do you feel motivated to take on a home renovation? What is motivating you? And, most importantly, what is your benefit at the end of the day? To answer these important questions, the documentary team, Chibi Moku, interviews architects, designer, and their clients in their numerous series on Smart Healthy…
DIY Toys, Baby Cradle – Sustainable Gifts Your Kids Will Love
Just thinking of toys brings out the kid in all of us. So actually making one with your own hands and some left-over pieces of wood is all the more fun. Handmade sustainable gifts for someone you love. How cool is this?! It will instantly become a family heirloom. It’s…
Soul Searching = Sustainable Living And Eco Friendly Design
In Smart Healthy Green Living’s show RISE, Matt Daigle shares his family’s journey to sustainable living. The birth of their daughter leads this couple to deep soul searching. They question their environment and the future they are providing their daughter. While they spent a lot of money on the…
Desert Landscape – Everything but Water
Have you ever thought about what attracts people to live and, in fact, build a custom home in a desert landscape? You can find almost everything but water. Desert Architecture, a Chibi Moku documentary series on Smart Healthy Green Living, explores this topic in a series of fascinating interviews with…
Modular Design – Custom Container Homes and Building off the Grid
What is your motivation in modular design? Is it a fast build? Is it to get out of the weather as rapidly as possible? Do you seek an alternative lifestyle? Perhaps the goal is building off the grid? What are the motivations? Build Rapidly Do you have space and/or access…
So Many Home Automation Ideas And The Best Is Yet To Come
Home automation ideas and devices are everywhere – it is really confusing. More and more innovations show you the best is yet to come. How to start? What devices make sense for my home? What devices make my life better? Is now the time to upgrade your home? What is…
Coffee Table with Storage – Is It A Great Idea?
People often say “…the more storage the better”. But is it a good idea to have a coffee table with storage? Perhaps in a really small space where every inch counts. Storage or no storage, let’s contemplate a few other important features to determine the right coffee table for your…
Great Garden Design To Build Value In Your Home, And Keep The Bugs Away
Some people are afraid of great garden design. They fear maintenance will be too much. They might say that they have a “black thumb” – their plants always die. The truth is you don’t have to be a garden design expert. You just have to know one to give your…
Make It A Happy Monday With A Home Office Makeover
Home office makeovers are happening everywhere. COVID19 shifted work into our homes. What started out as a temporary solution with a foldable desk in a dining room or in a bedroom is rapidly becoming a more permanent solution: Time for your Home Office Makeover to create a calm, beautiful and…
Kitchen Design, The Best Is Yet To Come
Today’s Cool Designs in Kitchen Design Today, kitchen designs have changed dramatically. What used to have a pretty singular use for preparing food for your family is now a social experience around food. It’s been a concept in the making for a long time. Open Concept Kitchen Design SHG Living’s…
Wood Floating Shelves
Remember when all sytlish toilets were avocado? Avocado toilets were the rage much like wood floating shelves in kitchen design today. Magazines are full of pictures with wood floating shelves. Some are left in natural wood, others are white floating shelves. You can buy them in all sorts of lengths…
