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Instead of tearing down their decrepit 1950s house and starting from scratch, a Manhattan Beach, California, couple recycled its materials to build a new one

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Healthy Choice
Ray Kachatorian

Healthy Choice

What you see: a headboard made of grass roots that provides textural contrast to soft, organic cotton linens

What you don’t see: the lack of harmful paint fumes. Throughout the house, Lori used a sandy white that has no volatile organic compounds (VOCs). “All darker paint colors contain some VOCs,” she says, “so we chose a light shade and brought in color with wood paneling instead.”

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