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Wallpaper Me Green


Give Your Walls An Eco-friendly Pattern
Bring beauty to your walls without bringing in the toxic emissions of VOCs - volatile organic compounds.  Select environmentally friendly wallpaper and use all natural adhesives.  There are many beautiful "green" wallpapers to choose from.  It's easy to find a style that matches your taste while making your home and the earth a little healthier.

What Makes It Green?
Eco-friendly wallpapers are vinyl-free and paper-based.  Some are made on recycled paper and others on paper from sustainably maintained forests.  Almost all use some form of natural dyes - usually water-based inks.  Because they are all natural, eco-friendly wallpapers and glues don't emit VOCs.  The emissions of these VOCs cause harmful off-gassing and potentially effect ozone depletion.  Off-gassing can also seriously impact your health.  Finally, when you decide to change your pattern, environmentally conscious wallpaper decomposes at twice the rate as its traditional predecessors.

What You Can Do
  • Be sure to use steam or a toxin-free removing aid when stripping off any old wallpaper.
  • Select an eco-friendly wallpaper.  If you're not sure how to identify one, ask a professional for help.
  • Make sure to use an all natural adhesive. VOCs can be found in traditional wallpaper glues.
  • Try starching tissue paper or newspaper to an interior wall.
  • Measuring your room accurately is very important to ensure you buy the right amount of wallpaper and don't have waste.
  • After hanging, reuse the unused paper instead of throwing it away.  For ideas, visit www.wallpaperyourwold.com/info/tips_unique.html

didyouknow

The EPA says VOCs are emitted by a wide array of products numbering in the thousands and concentrations of many are up to ten times higher indoors than outdoors.

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My friend Jack Poles, owner of Wallpaper Your World, recommends that you "Buy a textured paper that can be covered with Low VOC Paint. This way, you won't have to change your paper each time you change the color scheme of the house. Just simply paint over the paper!" - how cool is that?
 
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