Recycling while renting has historically been a challenge. Just google apartment recycling and most of the stories that pop up are about how to recycle in spite of living in an apartment. Living in Oak Park, whether in apartment or house, makes being green definitely easier. The Village provides many ways and opportunities for residents […]
Category: Green Living
Tips To Keep Your Apartment Cool
As temperatures climb Oak Park Apartments would like to recommend some simple tips to help keep your apartment and you as cool as possible. If you do not have a window air conditioning unit here are some helpful suggestions: Close the blinds on any and all windows that face south, east and west. If you can, invest […]
Oak Park’s Farmers Market 2016
Bright and early every Saturday morning from mid-May to the end of October local farmers begin setting up their wares at the Pilgrim Church parking lot on Lake Street and Elmwood Avenue before 7am to meet the produce demands of those who flock to Oak Park’s 41 year old farmers market. Farmers from Illinois, Wisconsin, […]
Perk Up Your Porches!
Oak Park is getting some brief glimpses of spring. Now is the time to spruce up your back porch to make it that great outdoor space to help you enjoy the good weather (once it gets here!) Many of Oak Park’s vintage apartments come with back porches. Those back porches are covered nooks that, with […]
Apartment Gardening – 101
Oak Park Apartments is feeling spring in the air. The warm temperatures and budding trees are giving us the gardening itch. Yes, we know that this is the midwest and next week could bring back a cold northernly chill but the weather we are experiencing has us a bit more optimistic that warm weather will be […]
Outdoor Living
Winters are long here in the midwest. Sometimes our springs feel more like winters too! That’s why, when the weather finally blesses us with warm temps and gentle breezes, you want to be able to spend those days enjoying the outdoors. So, if you live in apartment that has a back porch, now is the […]
Oak Park’s Earth Fest 2016
Oak Park Apartments believes in living a green lifestyle which can be a challenge when operating properties that were built at the turn of the century: but by adding insulation and upgrading windows to decrease heat loss, replacing old toilets with low-flow models to save water and by using CFL bulbs in all common spaces to […]
Oak Park Apartments Honored With VOP’s Green Award
The Village of Oak Park is a strong advocate for caring for our planet and, as a part of that mission, they recognize the efforts of businesses that are good stewards of the environment by presenting them with a Green Award. Oak Park Apartments is proud to say that we have been awarded the VOP’s […]
Improve The Air You Breathe – Buy A Plant
Mid-west weather makes it necessary to spend much of your time indoors. Unable to open the windows to circulate fresh air your apartment can suffer from indoor pollutants. Indoor pollutants are a build up of particles, gases and chemicals that impact indoor air quality. How do you you help counter-act poor air quality within your […]
How To Be Green When You Clean
OakParkApartments.com is more aware today then ever about the need to watch what chemicals we are introducing into our environment. Many cleaning products today have a long list of ingredients that no one knows what the long term effects may be. There are many more “green” products available in the store aisles but they can […]