Paint
I have used a variety of paints on the walls. I tried out Ecos eco-friendly paint, Crown Breatheasy paint and a Dulux minimal VOC content paint. The Ecos paint was significantly more expensive (about 3 times the price of standard paint) but is a really environmentally friendly paint with no smell. Its application was just the same as any other paint. The Crown Breatheasy is a cheaper option, with minimal VOC content (these are do nasty things to the atmosphere) but it still has a lot of other chemicals in it. It was great to use as it had virtually no smell to it. The Dulux paint, although having a similarly low VOC content, left quite a stink afterwards and I would not use it again.
It really is worth looking on paint tins now. They all tell you the VOC content (gloss paints are dreadfully high) and all the manufacturers are trying to reduce their environmental impact. However, avoid Homebase own brands as they are very high in VOC's. B and Q are better. Overall, given the money I have spent in total I think the extra cost of using Ecos paints throughout the house would have been negligible.
Kitchen
Rather than redo the whole kitchen I kept the kitchen units. I found a second hand Franke sink on freecycle which I cleaned up and bought a new kitchen tap. The worktop had to stay because of cost of replacing it and because it was not in bad condition.
 Taps needed replacing. I looked at low flow taps but they are very expensive and I went for standard ones. At home I have been trialling water saving attachments to put in existing taps but although they work, they don't look very attractive and the family are annoyed with them because they cannot get a decent flow of water when they need it.
Light fittings
The kitchen and living room light fittings were rather dated and scruffy and needed replacing. Buying light fittings is particularly difficult now because so many are sold taking only halogen GU10 bulbs for which there is no good energy saving equivalent producing good light output at a reasonable cost. I trawled the internet to find light fittings that would take standard bulbs (and hence standard energy saving bulbs) and found some reasonably good-looking ones. Unfortunately the expensive energy saving bulbs I bought to fit these take a long time to warm up and are really not bright enough for the kitchen so I replaced them with standard energy saving bulbs (from Tesco who sell a good range). LED lights will probably be the future but they are not quite powerful enough yet.
Elsewhere in the house I have replaced or renewed the existing light fittings with pendant lights and put in standard energy saving bulbs. Because the kitchen was a bit dark I have had undercounter lights fitted, low wattage flourescent ones.
Floor coverings
Most of the floors needed new coverings as they were tatty and stained. 
Many carpets and vinyls contain potentially dangerous chemicals including pesticides, organotins and brominated flame-retardants. There's also the electricity needed to clean them with a hoover, so it would be great to have the whole house uncarpeted. It is cheaper, safer and more hardwearing throughout.
However, I felt tenants would expect to have carpets at least upstairs and there was also the problem of insulating the ground floor. In the end I recarpeted the whole house, apart from the attic, with pure new wool carpet. For insulation on the ground floor, the carpet was laid on 7mm recycled fibreboard with Cloud 9 underlay over. The Cloud 9 underlay came from freecycle and there was enough to provide underlay for most of the house. The cost was little more than a non-wool carpet.
The kitchen/dining room floor was tricky. I looked at marmoleum (modern version of lino), cork, bamboo and wood. All of these had problems with maintenance and wear - the house was to be tenanted and I could not assume that a tenant would take enough care of the finish, for example re-oil wood, or make sure there were no big water spills. It was also a question of cost since all these products were two or three times the price of laminates. Another interesting thing I discovered was that many of these products were actually not as green as you might think because they had other additives, glues or some kind of mdf attached to them for laying.
In the end I made my biggest compromise and went for laminate flooring, not at all a green product but very practical and cheap.
The new door mats I bought are cotton and sisal.
Curtains
There were curtains in the house when I bought it but they were not very attractive and I have replaced them. I have been able to do this by using curtains bought at charity shops at very little cost. I was going to add an extra thermal lining to them to help heat retention but ran out of time at the end of the project.
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