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Holladay House Bed & Breakfast
 | Holladay House Bed & Breakfast |
Holladay House is a bed and breakfast offering lodging in downtown Orange, only 90 minutes from Washington, DC and Richmond, VA. The house features Federal architecture and offers six guest rooms, all with private baths and furnished with Victorian and colonial antiques.
Holladay House is committed to environmental excellence and works to minimize environmental impacts whenever possible.
Green Lodging Activities:
When visiting Holladay House, you can expect the following practices:
- Provides optional linen service in rooms
- Offers recycling opportunities to guests
- Practices water & energy conservation
- Offers a green events/conference package
- Use of low flow restrictors, sensors, and fixtures
- Preventative maintenance of drips and leaks
- High efficiency HVAC with individual thermostats
- High efficiency compact fluorescent lighting
- EnergyStar computers, appliances, etc
- Lawn areas replaced with low maintenance beds
- Abundance of indoor plants
- Use of glasses, dishware, etc instead of disposables
- Paper, cardboard, can, bottle, newspaper recycling
- Optional free papers (not delivered automatically to the room)
- Bulk purchasing of environmentally friendly cleaners
- Effective food inventory management
- Composting of food wastes
- Water efficient washers – those that reuse or filter wash waters
- Energy efficient dryers
- Environmentally-friendly detergents with minimal use of bleach
- Purchase of recycled content paper
- Recycle toner cartridges
- Purchase of durable/well-made products w/long life
- Purchase of energy-efficient equipment
- Policies for 2-sided copying and printing
- Extensive use of electronic documents and records
- Preventative maintenance on all vehicles and equipment
- Last in/first out inventory
- Eliminating use of aerosols
- Use of latex paints
- Reuse/donation of unused materials
- Effective system of storage, labeling and handling
- Use of sustainable building materials (carpets)
- Donate all towels, robes and linen to local animal shelter after thorough use
- Do 99% of marketing online
- Offer only natural soaps and shampoos to guests
- Use washable rags for cleanup instead of paper towels and sponges
- Purchase mostly local produce, meats and cheeses
- Coffee is single source fair trade and locally roasted
- Preparing to replace all water heaters with gas-powered in-line water heaters