Most of us have never thought about what our walls are made of. We choose a colour, we paint them, and we move on. But what if the finish on your walls is one of the leading sources of microplastic pollution in our oceans? And what if the alternative — something that actually stores carbon, improves your indoor air quality, and can be safely returned to the earth at the end of its life already exists?
Karmin Kenny founded Mineral Fox in 2020 as a frustrated customer a mother of two who simply wanted a non-toxic wall plaster for her family's home and couldn't find one. What followed was a journey that has taken her from her kitchen table to World Water Week in Stockholm, building a product range that is quietly revolutionising how we think about the surfaces we live with every day.
In this episode, Lottie sits down with Karmin to talk about the hidden environmental cost of conventional wall coatings, what "returning to nature" actually means in the context of building materials, and how her Circular Sea Collection a world-first architectural finish made from recycled oyster shells that locks carbon into your walls for the life of the building is showing what a truly circular built environment could look like.
This is the home sustainability conversation most of us haven't had yet. It's time to have it.
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