The English Home

A planet-friendly APPROACH

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The double mattress on this bed is filled with wool, cotton, hemp and flax. Sage double bed, £1,345; Montadale double mattress, £1,100, both Button & Sprung

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This calming design is made using 100 per cent traceable British wool sourced through The Woolkeepers, a quality assurance platform committed to delivering products promoting environmental and social change. Sudbury rug, Lichen,from £1,016, Roger Oates Design

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Made to order, this wallpaper is printed on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper, Orchard wallpaper, Apple, £144 a roll, Fiona Howard

As a new year dawns, our minds start to turn towards resolutions and self-improvement, and, of course, making improvements to our homes, one of which could be to buy more sustainably. This can seem overwhelming, particularly when trying to decide whether a product is genuinely sustainable or only seems to be thanks to ‘greenwashing’ – used to persuade buyers that a product is environmentally friendly even when it does not have a meaningfully reduced

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