Carpet
My roommate is an interior design major and she has a thing about natural and organic supplies. She is really into the new green movement when it comes to architecture and designing and believes that you can build and decorate your home or office with supplies that are reusable. Natural carpet is something that she raves about when she does her tiny little models. For her projects, she has to design a whole room at a time and then at the end of the semester she has to put all of the rooms in the house together and do the whole thing. For each room though she has so much detail. For example the last project she had to do was a dining room. She had to put in every little detail like light switches and carpets and floor details and even silverware. It all had to come together in the end and then at the end of the semester that had to come together and fit into the overall home design.
They even have to go as far as to get samples of the supplies that they would be using in the room so you can see what everything is made of and if the colors and textures go together just right. So she orders these cheap carpet tiles to put into the design and gets her other materials from this huge “store” that the interior design department has put together. I went one time to the store with her and it is full of wall paper samples and tile and wood and anything that you could ever imagine being in your home was in the ‘store'. They didn't have to pay for anything (that would get extremely expensive) they would use it for their project then they would turn it all in and the professor would put it all back into the store for the next project or class to use. It really is a good idea and ties into the motto of recycling and reusing materials to help the earth.
It is so interesting to me how far this go green movement has come over even just the past year. People are becoming more aware or themselves and their environment and what they are doing to it. It really has come to be a positive change and I can only imagine it getting better and better from here on out.
Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 @ 9:08 AM by Brian