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Sustainable Home: Maintaining an eco-friendly household - Book
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The Detail
The Sustainable Home, a room-by-room guide to a lower-impact household
Making a home more sustainable can feel overwhelming, mostly because the advice usually arrives all at once. Christine Liu breaks it down room by room instead, taking the living area, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom in turn, so you can change one space at a time rather than overhaul everything.
Key Features
- 18 step-by-step projects, not just principles.
- Organised room by room: living area, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom.
- Practical swaps and daily-habit changes alongside the bigger projects.
- Written by the maker behind the blog and channel Snapshots of Simplicity.
- 160-page hardback, photographed throughout.
Pure Standard
- The closest thing to a manual for what we stock. The same room-by-room, swap-by-swap approach we take to a low-tox home, set out by someone who has actually done it. That is exactly why we brought it in.
- Projects, not guilt. Eighteen things you can genuinely make or change, rather than a list of everything you are doing wrong.
- Publisher surplus, rescued rather than pulped. These are overprint copies that would otherwise have been destroyed, kept in circulation instead.
- Paper and board throughout. No plastic jacket, no shrink wrap, nothing to peel off and bin.
- Honest about condition. Surplus copies may carry a publisher's marker line on a page edge and light shelfwear. The text and photography are complete and unaffected, and we would rather tell you up front than have you discover it.
Overall score:
| Category | Score |
|---|---|
| Low-Tox & Material Safety | ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ (3.5/5) |
| Sustainability | ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4.5/5) |
| Manufacturing Transparency | ⭐⭐☆☆☆ (2.5/5) |
| Packaging | ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4.5/5) |
What's Inside
- Living area: what to change first in the room you use most.
- Kitchen: the room where small swaps compound fastest.
- Bedroom: textiles, air and what you sleep in.
- Bathroom: packaging, refills and reducing single-use.
- 18 projects: step-by-step, with what you need for each.
Product Details
Author & Publisher
Written by Christine Liu, creator of Snapshots of Simplicity. Published by Quarto, first published 26 September 2018.
Format
Hardback, 160 pages, photographed throughout.
Specifications
- Full title: The Sustainable Home: Practical Projects, Tips and Advice for Maintaining a More Eco-Friendly Household.
- ISBN: 9780711239692.
- Format: Hardback, 160 pages.
- Dimensions: 23 x 17cm.
- Weight: 640g.
- Condition: surplus stock. This copy may carry a marker line on the top or bottom page edge and may show mild shelfwear. The text and photography are complete and unaffected.
Our Take
If you want the argument for everything in this shop in one place, it is this book. Christine Liu goes room by room rather than dumping the whole low-tox project on you at once, which is the only way anyone actually changes anything. Eighteen real projects, not a list of things to feel guilty about.
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