Eco-friendly, Safe Paints for your Home, Nursery, and Furniture
If you're painting a nursery and are concerned about how it might affect your baby's health, you have every right to take precautions. Even after paint dries, it can still emit fumes or harbor bacteria, according to Bob Formisano at About.com. Paint, just like carpeting or other household chemicals, contains VOCs - volatile organic compounds. We won't go into the molecular breakdown of these compounds, but what you need to know is they're dangerous for you to breathe, and this means that they're even more dangerous for a baby to breathe.
There is good news, though! There are safe paints that you can use not only in a nursery, but anywhere in your home. Whether you're repainting your living room, freshening up some dull paint in your bathroom, or even want to paint your furniture, there are some wonderful, eco-friendly, low-VOC paints to help you get the job done beautifully and healthily.
Popular "green lifestyle" blog Jetson Green introduces us to milk paint. Oddly enough, its name sounds like exactly what it is-- milk! This paint dates back thousands of years to cave paintings, and there's a reason it's withheld the test of time: it's safe, it hardens with age, and it's versatile. It's created from a mixture of milk and crushed pigments. You can order it dry, and then just add water, stir and paint! Powder generally costs about $45 a gallon. This may sound a bit pricey, but for the safety of your family and the environmental benefits, we think it's worth it. To find out more about it and where you can get it, try milkpaint.com or realmilkpaint.com.
Stay tuned for our next entry where we'll be going into a bit more detail about some other safe, interior and exterior eco-friendly paints for your home.
Posted by HomeAire Blogging Team
Posted Date: February 8, 2008 at 2:44 PM
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