3 Ways to Green Your Furniture

It sits in every room of our house. We sit on it. We eat on it and we sleep on it. It's our furniture. Seventeen billions pounds of furniture ends up in landfills every year. This is waste that can and should be avoided Stop wasting and green your furniture now.

3 ways to green your furniture

Buy used: Never underestimate the charm of used furniture. Antique shops, ebay, and used furniture stores offer a treasure of furniture just waiting to be repurposed. You'll save moeny, save energy, and save materials by buying vintage or shabby chic.

Buy furniture made of sustainable materials: If used, vintage, or shabby chic isn't for you then buy furniture that is made of sustainable materials. Furniture made from harvested wood like plantation-grown lumber or woods that are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.

Refurbish what you have: Take a look at the furniture that you already own and think of ways you can turn it into what you want. Maybe stripping the paint off of an old dresser and returning it to its natural wood or reupholstering a chair with a new material will turn an old piece of furniture into a brand new piece.

You don't have to completely change the way that you furnish your home. But you owe it to yourself and to the environment to do what you can to save it. Maybe it's as simple as buying one new piece of furniture that you can't live without, while refurbishing and buying used for the rest of your house renovations.