Odourless Paint & Other Eco-Friendly Options For Your Home

Thinking about refreshing your home while avoiding causing harm to the environment? Renovating with sustainability in mind is a great way to create a healthier, more energy-efficient living space. In this guide from Treatex, we’ll explore practical and eco-friendly decorating ideas. You’ll discover various tips, as well as the benefits of using odourless paint in your home decoration.

Eco-Friendly Decorating Ideas

If you’re concerned about how your home renovation project will impact the local environment, it can be beneficial to opt for eco-friendly decorating practices. In this section, you can discover some of our key tips from Treatex for environmentally-conscious home decoration, from choosing reclaimed wood to restyling furniture with paint.

Include Dried Flowers

Instead of cutting flowers yourself or sourcing them from local supermarkets, dried flowers can be a wonderful way to include natural beauty in your home. When cared for correctly, these options will not need regular replacements, making them worthwhile investments. When you want to rid your home of these decorations, they are also entirely biodegradable and will cause no harm to your local environment.

Prioritise Energy Efficiency

As you renovate your space, it’s important to consider lighting. Lights are incredibly important to the overall ambience, making it necessary to consider them carefully. If you’re looking to create a comfortable environment that still considers the environment, it’s worth switching to LED bulbs, which can consume significantly less energy than traditional light bulbs. Similarly, implementing dimmers can help you control the energy you use. Try making the most of any natural lighting as much as possible, too, preventing you from needing to rely on energy to provide your space’s light.

Opt for Reclaimed Wood

If you’re looking to replace the surfaces in your home, it’s worth considering sustainable options in particular. Salvaged or repurposed from other applications, reclaimed wood is a cost-effective way to include real wood in your home, while also preventing these precious materials from ending up in landfills.

Choose Eco-Conscious Suppliers

During your renovation, it’s likely that you will need various products to help you bring your vision to life. Choosing trusted product suppliers who are committed to the environment and make environmentally-friendly products is a great choice, as they are unlikely to sell highly harmful products. Furthermore, checking the ingredients of each product you are considering using can help you avoid items that might pose a danger to the environment.

Purchase Supplies Locally

Another way to decorate with the environment in mind is to purchase supplies locally. The transportation of goods from other countries can often result in high emissions and a raised carbon footprint, impacting how environmentally friendly your renovation project is. By buying locally, you can limit the need for transportation, and often also reduce the overall transportation costs.

Buy Pre-Owned Furniture

If you’re on a budget, as well as looking for sustainable options, then preowned furniture might be the right choice for you. High-quality pieces can often be found at a fraction of the cost of new pieces, while still being made of quality materials that help them last for years. DIY also allows you to find the perfect solution for your home at a fraction of the cost of new furniture.

You can also refurbish pre-owned pieces by applying a layer of paint, helping them to suit your interior design style better. Using eco-friendly, odourless paint allows you to do so without compromising the health of your local environment.

What is Odourless Paint?

As a general rule, most paints have a smell that can be unpleasant during the painting process. It is often incredibly strong, and therefore difficult for those with sensitivities to strong scents to bear. In fact, for hours after the final coat has been applied, the scent can be left lingering. Thankfully, odourless paint is a solution that offers just as high a quality of finish, without the strong scent.

Why Choose Odourless Solutions

There are plenty of reasons to opt for odourless options over other paint types. They offer various benefits, including eco-friendliness and suitability for sensitive spaces. Discover some more of the key reasons to choose odourless solutions for your home below.

Eco-Friendly

For homeowners looking for solutions that are friendly towards the environment, odourless paints are often a suitable choice. By using non-toxic ingredients with lower levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) than normal paints, they can have a lesser impact on the local environment and therefore make a great eco-friendly choice. Similarly, VOCs can contribute to dizziness, headaches, or respiratory issues, making odourless solutions preferred.

Quicker Re-entry

In busy households, it can be difficult to have entire rooms shut off from use due to drying paint and the fumes that exist with it. Thankfully, odourless paint can allow you to return to rooms much sooner, which can be highly beneficial if you need to access the space quickly.

Healthier Environment

For those with allergies, asthma, or sensitivities to strong chemicals, normal paint fumes can be overwhelming and unpleasant. Odourless paint, therefore, can be an ideal option. It also minimises exposure to harmful fumes, creating a healthier living space for children, elderly people, and pets.

Ideal for Sensitive Spaces

If you’re looking to paint a sensitive space, such as a nursery or a hospice room, odourless paint is a great choice, particularly if the ventilation is limited. As no harsh smells are lingering behind after painting, these paints are well-suited to rooms that will be used by people with sensitivities to strong scents. Additionally, as the paint is odourless, strong smells will not seep through other spaces, preventing disruption to other rooms.

Treatex Eco Colours

Looking for odourless and environmentally friendly paint? At Treatex, we’re proud to offer our range of Treatex Eco Colours. Sold in shades of black, white, red, yellow and blue, Treatex Eco Colours are odourless paints that can work fantastically on a wide range of surfaces. Treatex Eco Colours can brighten up fences beautifully or add a pop of colour to your kitchen cabinets. The Treatex Eco Colours range is even safe for use on children’s toys!

Easy to apply and offering a high coverage finish, Treatex Eco Colours are suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. In fact, Treatex Eco Colours are water-repellent paints, meaning that surfaces painted with Treatex Eco Colours can withstand rainy weather. Treatex Eco Colours also contain 72% natural ingredients and are water-based paints, and are without any biocides or toxic ingredients.

Our Other Products

To help you apply your Treatex Eco Colours and achieve an outstanding finish, we offer an additional range of accessories at Treatex. Our brushes, rollers and trays can make the application process easy and smooth, helping you to achieve a clean appearance and final result you can be happy with. Similarly, to prevent any tannins from bleeding through your paint when painting on high-tannin wood, apply the Treatex Stain Inhibitor first as a primer.

Our Commitment to the Environment

Here at Treatex, we consciously think about how our products and the packaging we provide them will impact the environment. Any plastics we provide as part of our packaging are recyclable, making it easy to give them a new life. Similarly, our tin packaging contains between 80% and 95% recycled tin and metal. Our tin products can then be recycled indefinitely.

Even the boxes we use to package products together are manufactured with the environment in mind. Each of the boxes we use contains at least 75% to 90% recycled cardboard. In turn, our boxes can be recycled approximately 7 times. Find out more about our commitment on our environmental information page on our website.

Shop With Us

Ready to purchase from the Treatex Eco Colours range? We offer delivery of our products throughout the UK, making it easy to source Treatex paints, treatments and accessories for your home. From UV protective paints to useful additives, we can supply everything you need to revamp your wood and brighten up the space with colourful touches. We even offer samples of many Treatex products, allowing you to choose the right solution for your next project or compare potential colours. Visit our website to shop our products on our online store.

Got further questions? Our team of experts at Treatex would be happy to provide you with the answers, as well as any needed advice or information. Simply get in touch with us today.