Bringing your home up to date with 21^st century, is one of the most important things you as a homeowner can do.

However, this raises a question of where to start and what are your priorities. Unfortunately, this is not something that is easy to give an answer to.

This means that you have to prioritize, which more or less always comes down to the same thing.

What you want is for your home to save you money and the easiest way to make it so is to turn it into something Planet friendly.

With this in mind, here are some of the greatest eco and Budget friendly updates for your home.

Starting with bathroom

It is only natural that in your planet saving endeavors you should start with your Bathroom.

What our planet faces right now is an imminent water shortage and just by making your bathroom waste less water you can make a huge step or even leap forward.

By doing so, you can also drastically reduce your water bill and in this way make this update into something budget friendly as well.

First step towards saving more water lies in replacing your bathroom appliances with some low flow ones.

For example, low-flow toilet has the same performance with less than 40% water and pretty much the same goes with faucets and shower.

Let there be light

Next thing you could work on is going with an adequate lighting solution for your home.

Sure, most people go with ambience lighting since it is brightest and simplest to set-up.

However, this is usually not the most budget (or planet friendly way to go).

For starters, you could save a lot by switching from ambience to ascent lighting and even more by replacing your iridescent light bulbs with LED ones.

You can also save a lot by replacing your chandelier with a subtle downlight or two.

Tampering with light is never easy and it can make or break the entire impression that you wanted your room to make so you would do well to do some additional research on this topic.

Heat, heat, heat

Let’s not fool ourselves and just admit that heating bill is probably the priciest utility we are forced to pay, year in and out.

Still, it is more than necessary to have this covered once the winds of winter start howling.

When the temperatures get colder, some people just turn their thermometer up, which is not the right way to go.

What you need in order to make the room warmer is spend less and go “greener”. This means that you need to find a way to prevent heat from leaving the room.

However, before you can make some serious savings in this field you need to insulate your home in the right way and install some quality double-glazing windows.

Although, these two issues may be quite an investment, given enough time it always more than pays off.

Eco-friendly furniture

Last, but in no way least important, you can do both your home and your planet a great service by going full eco-friendly with your choice of furniture.

One of the easiest ways to do so would be to do some research on the materials these furniture pieces were made of.

If money is not the issue you should always go for teak, but for a bit less pricey solution even bamboo will do.

Of course, the fact that you are going eco-friendly does not mean that you cannot buy a designer item, and purchasing Zado woolen rug for your living room is the embodiment of this idea.

After all, both material and beauty count.

As you can see, your options are numerous and all you need to do is find a compromise between these ideas and your own personal preferences.

Of course, at times it may seem that these investments are more than you can handle, but you should bear in mind how sometimes in order to make a saving in the future, you need to spend a bit right now.

All in all, making any of these investments will not be a decision that you will ever come to regret.

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