Oliver Heath's new design book Urban Eco Chic is packed full lots of original and inspiring ideas on how to make your home more eco-friendly, sustainable and stylish.

For homeowners, interior designers, green builders, and anyone with an interest in eco friendly and sustainable design, Oliver's tips are affordable and accessible.

In the introductory chapter discussing Why Eco? Oliver gives example of a quote by the architect Eliel Saarinen who said in 1956, ‘Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.’

As Oliver says this concept rings truer now than it did in the 1950’s, in reviewing this book, this is essentially what this book is all about. It is packed with useful information, and helps unravel some of the mysteries about what it means to adopt an eco approach.

Oliver’s roof to floor approach really does tell you everything you need to know about how to make your home more eco-friendly, sustainable and stylish. The key chapters are:

Principles-How to incorporate eco-friendly technologies into your home and lifestyle changes into your routine.

Resources-How to reduce your home’s carbon footprint by becoming energy and resource efficient.

Materials- A guide to sustainable building materials for walls, floors fabrics and lighting.

In the home a room-to-room guide to applying urban eco-chic to your home from floors to furnishings.

With over 100 pictures this book is intended to inspire, showing that creating eco interiors are more about using your imagination than expense. Not only is it full of ideas, it is also a useful reference guide to being eco conscious and it is for this reason that we are delighted to award Urban Eco Chic our Green Award for October.

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