Recycled Furniture – The Cool Way to Save the Planet and Furnish Your Home!

Thanks to the eco-friendly green movement and a growing awareness that recycling is something to immerse our selves in as members of a global community, designers have had some great inspiration and a friendly push to create amazing new products from existing materials that have been discarded by their previous owners. This recycled designer furniture has proved that a revolution of aesthetically pleasing recycling is not only beneficial but achievable. Recycling isn't just putting your plastics and glass into the correct containers, it should become a part of every day life. We can live amongst recycled materials more effectively, by supporting this process we get to prevent our our rivers, soil and countryside from being polluted by our landfill rubbish. Every year  in Britain we send 100 million tons (this is not including a million tons of textiles and more than two million tons of metal) into landfill tips. The casual Primark, disposable fashion that has become so apart of our culture is disastrous for our planet.




Seats are being made out of shopping trollies, bath tubs halved in two to create deep and effective sofa's. Another material that is starting to shien much like our old friend bamboo in the 1990's is cardboard. It seems that it can be used as a replacement for many conventional materials too. We don't need to chop down any trees or use any virgin materials to create new durable and visually pleasing furniture. Whole salers like fashion4homes are even cottoning onto the trend with their cardboard sideboard and bookshelf proving that cardboard can be a delightful material to incorporate into your home. It is so interesting to see functional art merge with the recycling community via furniture design to combine with original elements of retired furniture to instill a fresh and appealing look, for a second time round. So next time you are looking at investing in a new piece for your home, why dont you check out the recycable furniture available to yopu in your price range, shabby chic never goes out of fashion.