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The Many Applications of Green Living Walls

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They are known by many different names. However,Plant walls, Green Walls and Living Walls are probably the most popular. A plant wall by any other name will smell so sweet, or more specifically will help keep your air smelling sweeter. Green walls can be used both indoors and out and are becoming not only a “green” feature for homes and offices, but a distinct design feature as well.If you are looking for a distinctive feature to set aside you office fit out or home design, then a green wall is a real and fantastic option.


The Look and Feel

Plant walls are lovely. They are appealing because they are completely customization and can be applied to any design in hundreds of different ways. They are a popular design feature in malls, high end hotels and office buildings because they provide a unique, modern and aesthetically pleasing addition to any room, hall, entry or garden. They are effective indoors and out and can be combined with water features or light for an even more dramatic effect. In the modern home they soften industrial features such as concrete walls and floors and make an exceptional welcome when applied to building fronts.


Urban Jungle

The green living wall is becoming a symbol of the urban jungle, bringing cool green walls to the harsh concrete, stone, steel and glass of the city. Plant walls are wonderful because they allow even the smallest terrace or balcony to have a green feature that can be grown and tended to with little effort. City dwellers are using plant walls for pure design or more functional purposes from growing herbs to berries. They allow the green thumbed urbanity to tend to a garden without the hassles of large gardens of the country home.

Health Kick

Living walls are also becoming popular with the growing trend for green design. Home owners and offices alike are looking for ways to create healthier indoor environments. Plants are nature’s filter and can help improve your air be removing toxins and replacing them with oxygen to improve energy. It might be hard to believe but adding even a small amount of plant life into a home or office will lessen stress and lower blood pressure. In fact, offices that have added living walls have seen an average of 12 percent increase in productivity.


Benefits of Green Walls

When you install a plant wall on the exterior of your home or building they actually can reduce energy consumption. They keep buildings 10 percent cooler in the summer and also keep a building insulated in the winter. While insulating they also reduce noise pollution keeping your home or office more quiet. Living walls provide natural temperature control outdoors as well. When placed on decks, terraces or even restaurant patios they will filter pollution but also cool the area by as much as 15 percent. This can be most welcome in the sweltering heat of summer. In fact restaurants can use a fresh herb wall on their patio perfect to clip and use in beautifully prepared foods not to mention refreshing.

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