Green Rascal Design

I'm doing something very rare today. I'm making coffee. Usually the only coffee I consume would be a tall iced mocha from Starbucks, and that only happens once a month or so. I'm really not a coffee person. But yesterday I went and got a package of mocha flavored ground coffee and some filters. Now the percolator is puffing along on its way to hopefully decent home made chocolate flavored coffee.

I saw an ad for a new carpet by Shaw Contract Group that is a "Cradle to Cradle" collection. I love Cradle to Cradle. There have been such carpets for a few years, but no project I've ever been on has specified it except maybe one, but the interior designer of that project was working out of Texas and we had nothing to do with what she chose. So now I might have the chance to specify my own Cradle to Cradle inspired carpet, and it's pretty cool. In general it's pretty cool. I'm hoping the color choices will improve sometime.

It's sad when the advertisements outshine the articles in a magazine. But I've always been interested in products. We used to do a lot of specifications, and I was in charge of collecting the samples and data on various options to help make choices between them. It was great fun. Now its nice to see sustainable choices becoming more available.

I think I'll get a sample or two of this Social carpet, and hopefully I won't spill my coffee on it.