PAINT & FINISHES: More color on Yolo Colorhouse zero VOC paints

GetWithGreen.com was able to connect up with Virginia Young of Yolo Colorhouse last month during an open house at Eco Home Improvement in Berkeley, CA.  Virginia spoke a lot about the paint market, and differentiating Yolo from other vendors in the marketplace.

What do we like about Yolo?  We like their background as a professional painters.  Both Virginia and her business partner Janie Lowe got their start by actually painting.  So what?  This means that they have taken into account important elements such as making sure their paint covers well – a criticism of some eco-friendly no VOC paints.   In addition, Yolo is one company that is doing more that branding a paint zero voc and “green”.  They are incorporating as much into their daily business practices as possible… recycling practices, bio diesel trucks, and more.

Check out Yolo Paints for your remodel.  If you don’t know what color would look good, Yolo offers 12″x24″ paper samples covered with paint for $5.99.  Much nicer than those 1″x1″ squares you pick up at Home Depot.  Much nicer than purchasing entire quarts, no likeing them, and letting them sit in your garage!

Lastly, GetWithGreen came across a nice little article on Star-Telegram.com.  Author Jesse Milligan gives some background on the company and Janie Lowe: Paint it green: You can put her colors on your walls.  Check it out!

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PAINT & FINISHES: Home Depot offers eco-friendly paint

Home Depot starts selling eco-friendlier paint in April.

ICI Paints and The Home Depot will launch an environmentally friendly paint nationwide in April 2008. The Freshaire Choice? Paint offers a paint free of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and is backed by a lifetime guarantee and GREENGUARD certification. Featuring a custom color palette of 66 beautiful colors available through an innovative tinting system.   Additionally, the packaging, samples, color cards are made in some % with recycled materials.  At $35-38 a gallon, here is what Home Depot and ICI have to say about it (from their press release today)…

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the air inside a home is, on average, two-to-five-times more polluted than the air outside. As the emphasis of environmental concern shifts from outside to inside, paint is a large contributing factor to poor indoor air quality and can emit harmful chemicals, such as VOCs, for years after Read more

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We Got Green: Gruppie Girl selects no VOC paint from Sherwin Williams

Zero VO What?

The battle between living green and having nice, new, shiny stuff is a theme that often runs through my life.  Blame it on all of those home shows that I am addicted to, but I have a need to redecorate my house.  Recently I discovered how green my home decorating choices can be.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated that the air quality inside your house can be two to five times worse than the air outside.  Most Americans spend 90% of our time indoors.  That is a dangerous cocktail. 

Volatile Organic Compounds or VOC?s are those sneaky gasses that are contained in conventional house paints, cleaners, lacquers and some furniture.  They are responsible for much of the toxic air in our homes.  When we paint the inside of our homes with paints that contain volatile organic compounds, our family breathes them in long after the paint is dry.  VOCs can cause nausea, loss of coordination, kidney damage, repertory infections and memory loss just to name a few of the lovely side effects.

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