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bluehouse has been in the media - see where here in case you missed it
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Home and DesignBazaar- Conscientious Shopping
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"Located near Fells Point in Baltimore, bluehouse was started as a way to provide people with healthier options for everyday life, and owner David Buscher started with the building itself. From bamboo floor and cabinets to low-VOC paints and recycled glass countertops, “almost every material we chose to build out our store is green in some way,” he says."
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Baltimore Business JournalThe Shops at Kenilworth lands new retailers
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"Bluehouse will open its second store in the Baltimore region at Kenilworth. The store sells home furnishings, accessories and housewares. The products are made from reclaimed, recycled materials, or organic and chemical-free materials. Bluehouse has a location in Harbor East, near Fells Point."
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Metromix BaltimoreHigh 5: Eco-friendly restaurants
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"BlueHouse is a great example of contemporary environmentalism. You can help the world and be stylish and drink great coffee at the same time—the two are no longer mutually exclusive. BlueHouse is probably best known for the hip home goods it sells like rugs, beds, furniture and bath supplies; but there's also a trendy and cool café where you can enjoy fair trade coffee and munch on organic pastries."
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Karm CityKarm City
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"Bluehouse Chais are pretty incredible"
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Baltimore Style - Expert OpinionHoliday 2007 Gift Guide
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bluehouse is mentioned twice in this feature from Baltimore Magazine for great products you can get your loved ones for the holidays:
"Don't buy Mom a vacuum! Scratch and Sniff: Not for the weak scented, Le Jardin Tropical's natural oil fragrances are powerful. $22 at bluehouse."
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"Bosses are people, too. Wine Tote: Recycled felt wine pocket, $29 at bluehouse."
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Baltimore Style - Expert OpinionAnn Fortune - bluehouse buyer/designer
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"What’s a good gift under $25? We have something that’s kind of like the holiday gift basket except not full of crackers and cookies, but scents and smells ($22). It has incense, a ceramic incense holder, candles and three natural essential oil perfume sachets that can be put in suitcases and drawers. When I was little I liked opening up a box that had a lot of little things in it— not just one sweater."
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iVillage - Host a Green ThanksgivingGrass Table Runner
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"This year, choose Thanksgiving table linens that will look as good to Mother Nature as they do to your holiday guests. This table runner, available at Blue House for $22, makes an attractive addition to a green table setting. It's made from vetiver, a tall grass native to India. Vetiver is sustainable due to its long lifespan and, because of its deep roots, it protects against soil erosion."
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Custom Home OnlineCustom Home Online
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"Sustainable Vanity. A line of bathroom furnishings made from sustainably grown bamboo and recycled concrete, the Katharos collection includes a vanity made from wall-suspended cabinetry availablein two colors, topped by a countertop that comes in three colors, two lengths, and three configurations of cabinet doors and drawers."
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Chesapeake Home - Magazine EditionChesapeake Home
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"Brushed Stainless Steel Vases... through bluehouse."
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Washington Spaces - What Green Means - Fall 2007Washington Spaces
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"Remain Sensible. 'Everyday there's another story,' says David Buscher of bluehouse, a green place to shop for shelter items in Baltimore... 'We're trying to give people things that will last 100 years,' Buscher says... Green design is not an aesthetic, remember - it's a layer of thought given to the changes and choices we continuously make."
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"The Lazy Environmentalist - Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living."By Josh Dorfman
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Josh Dorfman's book, "The Lazy Environmentalist - Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living." mentions bluehouse with the following quote:
"bluehouse offers a strong collection of eco-aware furnishings, housewares, accessories, and gifts. bluehouse's 7,000-square-foot retail store near Baltimore's inner Harbor was built to green specifications and features a cafe serving natural and organic food and drinks."
Click book cover for full size.
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CityPaper - Best of Baltimore 2007 - Best Eats and Drinks Categorywww.citypaper.com
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bluehouse was granted the "Best Wi-Fi Cafe" award according to CityPaper.com with the following blurb:
BEST Wi-Fi Cafe: bluehouse
"Man, we're clickety--clickety-clickety on the keyboard here. We get our stuff done. The internet juice is strong at bluehouse; it's like we're surfing from tree to tree up in the canopy of a beautiful unspoiled rain forest. Maybe it's the fair-trade coffee that makes us feel like that. The cafe part of Harbor East's eco-friendly home store serves up fresh salads and tasty snacks like empanadas to sustain users through the long spells they tend to hang out there. Usually there are enough tables to accommodate everyone and their laptops, but only the tables near the wall have access to outlets. Something about bluehouse's clean environment, those healthy floors and walls, we're convinced, is good for concentration, because we're on fire at bluehouse."
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Baltimore Magazine - FOOD - Magazine Edition - October 2007www.baltimoremag.com
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bluehouse appeared on the cover of the "FOOD" October Issue of Baltimore Magazine with the following nod:
"Vintage Hemp/Cotton kitchen Cloth courtesy of bluehouse."
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Balitmore Sun - Restaurants & Food - Coffee Spots www.baltimoresun.com
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Neatly lined-up tables and enough natural lighting to make artificial ones unnecessary during daylight hours creates an atmosphere that's perfect for working or meeting with friends.
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The Washingtonian - Home and Garden - May 2007 www.washingtonian.com
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Green and Clean
"...A number of stores and catalogs now sell green furniture. Bluehouse, in Baltimore (bluehouselife.com),
worked with the studio Luke Works to produce the Katharos Collection, bath furniture made from bamboo and recycled concrete..."
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Solutions at Home - Baltimore - Magazine Edition - May 2007"Autumn Leaves"
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"An eco-friendly lifestyle doesn't have to be an exercise in deprivation, and bluehouse's gorgeous pillows by Inleaf Design prove that point.
Lotta Helleberg, a Swedish graphic designer with a passion for botany, gardening, and sewing, prints her elegant pillows by using real leaves for fragile yet bold designs."
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Baltimore Magazine - Magazine Edition - April 2007www.baltimoremag.com
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"Spring is nature's way of saying: Time to redecorate! An overhaul isn't needed, just a few fresh and tranquil pieces to lighten up a room.
Zen is easy to achieve with the right colors ...or patterns... Local art is also a great way to give a room a new perspective."
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The Examiner - Magazine Edition - Todays Newsmakerswww.examiner.com
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"David Buscher, owner of the downtown Baltimore eco-friendly furniture company bluehouse, has launched a local effort to offset carbon dioxide output.
Buscher is working with Wind Current, a company bringing renewable wind-generated electricity to the region by purchasing clean energy.
His company also will offset the carbon output from its freight and shipping, at a cost of 25 cents per Web shipment to the customer."
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The Daily Record - Online Edition - April 20, 2007 www.mddailyrecord.com
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bluehouse "announced plans Thursday to utilize wind power to compensate for energy use, and encouraged other Baltimore businesses to join the eco-friendly effort."
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Urbanite Baltimore - Urbanite #33 March 07www.UrbaniteBaltimore.com
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"For many homeowners involved in renovations, environmentally friendly furniture can be hard to find. That’s become easier with the
presence of bluehouse in Fells Point, a purveyor of eco-friendly furniture and other home products."
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Home & Design (hardcopy) - Late Spring 2007 Issuewww.HomeandDesign.com
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"The focus of bluehouse in Baltimore is on health in general: healthy people, homes and planet.
The shop carries a wide variety of chemical-free and organic products, from lamps made from recycled paper to an
exclusive line of bathroom furniture from Baltimore-based design/build firm Luke Works, Inc. Katharos is made from
sustainably grown bamboo with a recycled concrete and glass countertop."
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Metropolitan Home (hardcopy) - December 2006/January 2007www.methome.com
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"Baltimore Located in the Harbor East Area, bluehouse offers eco-friendly products for the home plus a cafe featuring organically grown coffee, teas and natural foods.
Set in an airy former warehouse, the furniture and accessories store features exclusive products with very specific criteria - they must be created from reclaimed,
recycled, organic and chemical-free materials or made locally and by hand. You'll find EcoTimber hardwood and bamboo flooring, GreenLife natural rubber and wool mattresses,
as well as Loop organic cotton sheets and bath towels."
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Baltimore Style - Green Giants - March/April 2007www.baltimorestyle.com
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"From the non-toxic paint (made from milk proteins) spread across the warehouse walls to the recycled glass tiles fixed atop the café’s countertops, Bluehouse couldn’t be more conscious of the environment if the Environmental Protection Agency inspected it on a daily basis."
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The Washingtonian - Home and Garden - February 2007 www.washingtonian.com
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Chopstick Lamps--Limited Edition!
"...The cheapest "Mey" lamp we could find was at bluehouse, a Baltimore store with an online shop, where it goes for $29 plus shipping.
We also found it for $65 at the Art Institute of Chicago and for $68 at Green Home Environmental Designs."
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Domino Magazine (hardcopy) - Editors Cravings - Natural Nauticalswww.dominomag.com
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"Carved from natural graphite, these shells can double as pencils in a
pinch. Angelio Batle "Graphite Objects", $38 each, bluehouseLIFE.com"
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Baltimore Style - Green Giants - March/April 2007www.baltimorestyle.com
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"From the non-toxic paint (made from milk proteins) spread across the warehouse walls to the recycled glass tiles fixed atop the café’s countertops, Bluehouse couldn’t be more conscious of the environment if the Environmental Protection Agency inspected it on a daily basis."
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Baltimore City Paper - Holiday Guide 2006 - November 15 2006 www.CityPaper.com
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"For the folks on your list who already have everything, but you need to get them something anyway, how about a gift for them that's a gift for the environment as well. "
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Baltimore City Paper - Best of Baltimore 2006! - September 20 2006 www.CityPaper.com
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"You deserve the best, and Whole Foods and Bluehouse, within walking distance of each other on Fleet,
give it to you organic, natural, recycled, fresh, and at decent, though not cheap, prices.. "
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LuckyMag - April 2006www.LuckyMag.com
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"Rugs, non-toxic paints, furniture and housewares made from
recycled materials are all on offer at this innovative store. Post-shopping, refuel at the cafe stocked with organic treats and fair-trade coffee."
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Style - March/April 2006www.BaltimoreStyle.com
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"While it still may be some time before Savvy can finally keep straight which recycling gets picked up on which day, she could very quickly learn to love living earth-friendly after a trip to Bluehouse. The store is simply gorgeous and the offerings are a revelation in how far renewable, recycled and reclaimed home furnishings and decorative elements have come.
Everything in the store is organic, natural and chemical free— in short, healthy for the earth, healthy for you. "
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CityPaper Online - Cheap Eats - February 2006www.CityPaper.com
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"BlueHouse is seriously kashi: a retail store with, like, fair-trade organic vegetable-dyed sheets, bartered beeswax candles with scents
like zen and homeschooled, and the quietest café ever serving only good for the environment fare along with “happy workers make good coffee” coffee."
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Baltimore Sun - Taste Section (Archived) - February 2006www.BaltimoreSun.com
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"[David Buscher] says the store/cafe is housed in the 100-plus-year-old Broom Corn building on Fleet Street. The space is about 7,000 square feet, with the front quarter devoted to the cafe. Buscher says he used almost all "green" (environmentally friendly) building materials for the interior, including a bamboo coffee bar with recycled glass tile top."
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The Urbanite - Stir! - February 2006www.UrbaniteBaltimore.com
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"Bluehouse has been years in the making, originating from Buscher’s desire to create a business that gives to the world instead of taking from it. "
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