| Green Eco Friendly Furniture: Organic | | | | Reused Furniture |
| Contemporary Furniture & More Easy Choices | | | | Finding these items at local garage sales and |
| Green choices: green bamboo furniture, organic | | | | markets leaves less travel imprint. Reused items |
| mattress cover, organic crib mattress are easy | | | | require no use of new resources, providing a well |
| green choices. These eco advances provide | | | | rounded option for those looking for eco friendly |
| families with less chemical exposure and a chance | | | | furniture. |
| to help the environment. | | | | Websites like and allow users to pick up items |
| Some options are eco friendly because they | | | | that are local to them without any cost and trade |
| include organic materials such as organic mattress | | | | items with their neighbors. For the creative among |
| covers, an organic mattress topper, and organic | | | | us, and those who don't mind a little work and |
| contemporary furniture. | | | | cleaning, reusing local free furniture is a low cost |
| Eco home items, eco office items, eco baby | | | | and eco friendly option. |
| items- whatever the type of furniture, these | | | | New Green Furniture |
| items are eco friendly when one or more of the | | | | New green furniture can be identified by a similar |
| following guidelines are used. | | | | checklist. Is the material low impact? Is the |
| Design: | | | | processing and travel low impact? |
| When purchased, these items tend to be | | | | New green eco friendly furniture can be identified |
| contemporary in design; functional, yet beautiful. In | | | | in the following ways: |
| connection with using resourceful building materials, | | | | 1. The supplier provides organic cloth or fabric in |
| these items will require less rather than more, | | | | the furniture. Examples include an organic |
| achieving beauty with elegance rather than | | | | mattress pad or organic crib mattress. |
| opulence. | | | | 2. The supplier uses natural dyes in the place of |
| Designers vary in their choices, yet many of | | | | harsh chemicals. |
| these contemporary organic items will be | | | | 3. The supplier uses recycled or refurbished |
| produced with the attention to creativity that | | | | material to create the furniture. Examples would |
| comes along with thinking outside the traditional | | | | be suppliers who make beautiful modern |
| box. | | | | counter-tops from recycled glass. Those who |
| Green Eco Friendly Furniture | | | | locate discarded wood to make new wood |
| Green Eco friendly furniture is furniture that uses | | | | furniture are great examples as well. |
| less new resources, less harsh chemicals, or | | | | 4. The supplier uses plant materials that have a |
| undergoes less travel while still satisfying the | | | | faster re-growth rate than conventional options. |
| desires of users. | | | | Examples would be suppliers who use bamboo in |
| Eco friendly furniture can be any of the following | | | | the place of freshly sourced wood. |
| options: | | | | 5. As a general rule, the more natural the used |
| Refurbished Furniture | | | | material, the more green the furniture. Exceptions |
| Furniture that is remodeled by a company or by | | | | include when a natural resource is scarce and |
| the user themselves can leave less of an imprint. | | | | overly used in conventional markets. For these |
| In terms of chemical output and use of new | | | | furniture building materials, the greener alternative |
| resources, refurbished (slightly used or damaged | | | | is the recycled form of this material or the use of |
| furniture) leaves less of an imprint. | | | | a separate material that is healthy and low impact. |