WE GOT GREEN: Erin & Tim continue their remodel with Trim and Low-VOC Paint

We have moved to the walls and trim! 

TRIM
I have been doing some searching on line for recycled floor trim and crown moulding and came across a company called Timbron.  They are a semi-local company (Stockton, Ca. which is about 50 miles away from the bay area) .  Their web site says that Home Depot  carriers their product which is  a 90% recycles polystyrene wood alternative to your typical mouldings.  This company also collects  that nasty white styrofoam ( white Expanded Polystyrene aka Styrofoam? and any white container labeled #6 that is CLEAN) and use it to create their trim products!  However, when I went to Home Depot no one had never heard of this company including the building materials buyer.  I looked around and found that most trim board is manufactured with some type of reclaimed and/or recycled wood fiber.  We settled on both a crown and floor trim that uses 100% recovered and reclaimed wood fiber.  See attached picture for sticker info.

PAINT
For the paint I was interested in a low or no VOC paint and even entertained the idea of the milk based paints for a minute. However color choice won out!

When I called Kelly Moore to find out about  their new eCoat which is  a recycled post-consumer paint product that is blended into a quality paint by using old, unused, and left over paint I was told you can only get it from the facility in Sacramento and there are only a few colors to choose from.  Although it does preserve the environment by not creating any more paint and is green friendly I could not sacrifice design for poor paint color choices.

Last summer while at the Sunset home festival I fell in love with the 144 beautiful colors that seamlessly go together in the recently introduced Benjamin Moore Affinity color collection.    Benjamin Moore also recently released a new breakthrough waterborne interior paint  line called Aura which “is the first paint to be considered eco-friendly while still maintaining high performance standards. It’s low volatile organic compound (VOC) formula meets and exceeds the highest VOC requirements set by the Ozone Transport Comission in the Northeast  and the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) of Southern California”.  They also offer little 2oz sample cans so you  can try a patch on your wal without committing to a full quart - and they have EVERY color!!! 

Aura and Affinity are slowly being  introduced wherever Benjamin Moore paints are sold - we found ours at Almaden paint an Wallpaper on Camden Ave. in San Jose, Ca.  The downside is the cost of the paint- $55/gallon!  However you are able to get any one of the 3,000 Benjamin Moore colors in the Aura paint product! 

The walls are Cosmopolitan, the ceiling is Bunny Grey, and the trim is Distant Grey!

                         

We love the colors and I’m super excited to pick out different colors for the other bedrooms, bathrooms and hall because I know that whatever colors I pick from the Affinity line will work together perfectly!

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