Sustainable and Affordable Way to Furnish Your Home

Second hand furniture is an economical and sustainable solution to furnish your home, helping conserve natural resources while keeping waste out of landfills.

Used-furniture upcycling can be a creative and innovative process where beautiful, but flawed, pieces are reimagined into something unique. Reupholstering chairs or adding hardware upgrades can create something is definitely one of a kind.

Economical

Another big attraction of buying secondhand furniture is that it’s a lot cheaper – used pieces are that much less expensive than newly purchased goods as evidenced by online consumer products marketplaces such as West Elm and Pottery Barn which stock fabulous but discounted, high-grade home furnishings (ideal if you’re looking to kit out a flat sustainably, without spending unnecessarily).

Furniture is one of the least sustainable and most polluting industries in the world, as interior design trends change fast and companies strive to keep up with them at any expense – often by exploiting workers and deforested areas as a source of wood. Buying used furniture also saves you carbon footprint.

Second-hand muebles has more than one advantage. First, the 2nd hand furniture already uses up raw material resources like energy and natural ressources, so buying used stuffs doesn’t create new needes which requires even more effort. Secondly, they are made out of good materials which tend to last for decades.

Environmentally friendly

Buy secondhand furniture – not only to avoid the energy and natural materials that would otherwise have gone to waste, but to prevent raw materials that would otherwise have gone to landfills or power plants (where they would be burned, and then gas and heavy metals would be blown into the environment).

Purchasing secondhand furniture also mitigates the global warming resulting from the deforestation of endangered trees and violations of indigenous land rights that often accompany the production of new wooden furniture production lines, and it helps avoid the use of potentially toxic chemical finishes that typically accompany new wood furniture production lines.

Secondhand goods are also a source of endlessly renewable, nontoxic materials like bamboo, cork and responsibly harvested wood – which do not off-gas formaldehyde into your airways (and irritate eyes, noses and asthmatics). And they often have more interesting patina than new-store furniture could ever match!

Ethical

Furniture production and distribution is among the least sustainable businesses in the world, with more than 12 million tonnes manufactured every year and landfilled by Americans every single year. Even worse, the creation of new pieces spurs greater and greater demand from fossil fuel manufacturing industries that continue to destroy the planet; by purchasing items that have been previously used, you drastically reduce your footprint.

Similarly, buying used furniture helps to decrease waste since it reduces packaging demands and reduces demand for new materials and timber, while used pieces often carry out histories that provide character and uniqueness.

Purchasing previously owned furniture is both a cost- and environmentally-friendly decision. It offers a huge price cut plus support for local business and a more sustainable business model. Saving money with a used buy and being more environmentally friendly – those are just two of the many benefits of buying used furniture – the advantages are many and plentiful, from avoiding expensive new stuff, to being smart with our choices of home furnishings.

Unique

Apart from being cheap and unique, buying secondhand furniture also means less waste. Each reclaimed piece means one less new piece going straight into the bin – a important consideration in today’s era of rampant over-consumption.

Used furniture has a further advantage: you can adapt it to your individual needs and tastes. For example, you can repaint it, or change the fabric of it to make it look more modern, a process of improvement that costs next to nothing.

 Purchasing secondhand furniture can be an eco-friendly decision for your home. By decreasing demand for new production of furniture and reducing its environmental footprint, purchasing used pieces allows us to conserve natural resources while showing our personal style while saving money and supporting local businesses. Be sure to shop from reputable sellers who will show items to you personally prior to giving payment.