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Near the South Carolina shore, one couple built an eco-friendly home with the traditional look they love.

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Limited Damage
Deborah Whitlaw Llewellyn

Limited Damage

From beginning to end, the builders tried to limit damage to the environment. During construction, they set up silt fencing to prevent soil runoff. Instead of using an impervious material for the driveway, they packed it with crushed oyster shells, so that rainwater seeps into the ground rather than sheeting off into the adjacent May River. Inside they used low-VOC paints, and reclaimed-pine flooring and paneling milled from locally harvested yellow pine. Instead of accepting factory-applied coatings with high levels of VOCs, they finished the sustainable material on site to lower levels of offgassing.

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