Can furniture made out of wood be eco-friendly at the
same time? The answer is….YES! You might ask how
bedroom sets can be eco-friendly when we’re still using
high quality solid wood such as oak for the construction
of the bed sets. Wood is wood but it all depends where
the wood is coming from. There are logging farms that
grows lumber for furniture and then there’s illegal logging,
where trees from many parts of the country (such as
Indonesia, east Russia, The Amazon, Burma, etc) are
illegally cut down and are being sold as lumber. So don’t
get the misconception that eco-friendly furniture is
lower in quality; because its the same if not higher in
quality than non-green furniture minus the illegal
lumbering of preserved forests. There are many other
furniture that are made of sustainable harvested wood.
You can find Eco-friendly dining room furniture, coffee
table, living room furniture, and even metal bed frames
that are elegant and of the highest quality.
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Green Furniture - Not By Color « Roguestatus // May 30, 2008 at 4:51 pm
[...] Buying “green” furniture doesn’t have to interfere with your home’s interior design plan. Eco-friendly furniture has grown in popularity as well as design. Many homeowners get the misconception that green furniture tends to lack in either comfort and/or design. Nowadays, consumers can’t even distinguish between Eco-friendly furniture and normal furniture when in reality, it’s made out of the same quality material. If you haven’t read my earlier post about green furniture, it will explain what I’m talking in greater detail here. [...]