KID-FRIENDLY LIVING
When building a new home, play areas and bedrooms for children are often high on the agenda, but other, less obvious details that impact their health and safety are not. Of course, many of those things fall into the realm of lifestyle, not architecture. But what’s the point of building a green home with low-VOC paints, adhesives and cabinetry, only to fill it with toxic household cleaners and dangerous Teflon cooking pans?
Here’s a short and simple walkthrough of a home, highlighting some of the many lifestyle and design choices that can be addressed to make future homes safer for kids. If you’re a builder or architect, tear this article out and share it with your next client. If you’re a parent and homeowner, there’s a lot of stuff here that you may not have considered about household products and design.
Written by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Healthy Child, Healthy World; Derived from content originally created in partnership with WebMD
04.2012
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