Excitingly, we are planning to remodel our kitchen in just a few months so I’ve started doing some research. I’ve been reading online and pinning kitchen ideas on Pinterest, but my mom recently gave me a stack of old kitchen magazines and books. In an old issue of Better Homes and Garden’s Kitchen Makovers magazine, there’s an article with easy ways to go green in your kitchen. Going green focuses on less waste, conservation and sustainability. Our lives and ecoystems are all interconnected and the chemicals used on crops in one country has an affect on others around the world. This magazine listed 40 ideas for going green in the kitchen so I thought I’d share just a few of the ones I really liked (all images from Kitchen Makeovers Spring 2008).
1. Reuse – Don’t go out and buy more art. Use what you have. 2. Repaint – Rather than toss old cabinets into the landfill repaint them to give them a new look.
9. Recycle – When mounted to a pendant and filled with wineglasses, an old factory bottle holder becomes a gallery-worthy mod chandelier. 
13. Reuse glass bottles.
38. Use everyday drinkware made of recycled glass
I would love to have that wineglass chandelier in my dining room! And I’ve definitely been saving glass containers (wine bottles, etc) to repurpose and reuse. Do you have any green ideas of your own?
-J
i really like the wine glass chandelier! cool look. only you could pull that look off 🙂