Recycled Paper Creates Eco Modern Sustainable Furniture

From storage units and desks to tables and chairs, Way Basics Furniture invites you to explore your creative side without harming the planet.  This eco-modular line of home furnishings is made from 99% post-consumer recycled materials and is 100% recyclable when its life is over.  

Way Basics cubes are available in a rainbow of colors and can be combined with dividers to create endless furniture possibilities.  When it comes to assembling your furniture, it's as easy as peeling the adhesive covering and sticking - no tools are required and no waste is created!

What are zBoards?

Every unique piece of Way Basics furniture begins with a simple zBoard.  Rather than particleboard or plywood, zBoards are eco-friendly - constructed from post-consumer waste without formaldehyde or chemical based glues.  

ZBoards are lightweight, making it easy to move your furniture or rearrange your decor, but are still super strong.  Way Basics Cubes are designed to hold up to 50 pounds and can hold twice that with the use of a support zBoard.

The Possibilities

Your imagination is the only limitation with Way Basics furniture.  Combine colorful Cubes for an innovative children's bookcase or personalize your home office with creative storage solutions.  Cubes are available in squares and rectangles to create an array of shelving possibilities or design tables and desks with sturdy zBoard bases.  Dividers offer even more personalization while spinning plates can be added to your pieces to create an intriguing revolving design.

Get back to Way Basics with your own eco-chic furniture.  Based in Irvine, California, Way Basics ships nationwide and is also available in a number of stores throughout the US, as well as in Canada and Australia.  Visit the website to find the perfect eco-modular furniture for your needs.

Siblings Seal Reclaimed Wood Deal for Great Furniture and Accessories

Brother and sister team of Aaron and Megan Pahmier have put their art and carpentry talents together and created a company called Kindling. Working mainly with recycled bits of wood, they make small but graceful pieces that are unique enough to draw the eye in any interior layout. Aaron's carpentry work for Green Sawn, a locally sourced furniture making company, provides the scrap wood needed to make these vases, picture holders, and little votive candle holders. At the moment, the best place to buy their work is through etsy, where you can purchase as many natural faceted wooden rocks and log votive holders as your recylced fir and maple coffee table can handle. The little wooden rocks accessorize perfectly. Aaron's designs recognize the utility and limits of using old framing lumber to create benches, or resurrecting high school bleacher seats retooled into dining room tables. All of the wood is sourced locally and finished products are intended to showcase the life cycle of wood and bring forth furniture with a story to tell. Megan's holders build directly out of her art, which is sculptural, abstract, but full of natural references, like flattened football fields viewed from above, and other aerial landscapes of human and natural design.

Chroma Lab Recycles Brightness into Your Day

Certainly purchasing antiques is a great way to furnish your life sustainably – but what if you’re tired of mahogany and dark umber, don’t like modern and metal, and aren't brave enough for 1950s kitsch?    Chroma Lab, a small but innovative furniture company in Boston, is the answer. Their first successful product was an incredible array of geometric and wildly colored clocks, but partners Alicia Cornwell and Tony Bevilacqua have now generated a line of chromatically stunning painted furniture and unique floor coverings.

Taking classic bureaus, shelves, and end tables to a new level, Chroma Lab furniture is made with an eye for detail and depth. Colors pop out from all segments of the piece, from every angle of a drawer to each side of an end table. “Color is our favourite thing,” said Cornwell. “If a piece has a nice shape and we think we can modernize it with color, then that’s what we do.” The team begins with a high quality antique and re-envisions it in a new environment as a one-of-a-kind piece. If you like the furniture, you might also consider using Tony and Alicia as environmental consultants for your office, living room, or yoga studio (check out the floor coverings). Chroma Lab is also beginning its own line of lamps, which are available on a limited basis immediately.    The Deep Sea Dresser, with undulating blue waves inside and out, has been featured in magazines and at the recent 2009 Interior Design Show in Toronto but if it’s sold by the time you get in touch, remember that Chroma Lab will design something specifically for you with an equally unique flair.

Vermont Woods Studios Fine Furniture – Sustainable and Undeniably Creative

Whether you love the taste of a chilled glass of Merlot with dinner or desire an exquisite conversation piece for your next get-together, doesn’t an original, hand-carved work of art sound divine? Consider the Custom Artisan Wine Cabinet by Vermont Woods Studios, which creates fine furniture pieces from sustainable sources. Unique and elegant in every way, an artistic exterior keeps your collection of wines and glasses hidden – a beautiful piece for the home of any wine connoisseur. Crafted in the state of Vermont, sculptors use eco-friendly, natural solid hardwood to create each custom-built piece. As with the majority of pieces offered at Vermont Woods Studios, you can order your customized wine cabinet to include names, dates, and other creative personalization. The base price for this particular piece is $16,800, which includes shipping and a lifetime guarantee. Green Satin Fainting Couch I would love to own this particular piece in my home – not just because green is my favorite color, but because this is such a striking design. I'd just stand there, look at it from a distance, and surely faint if anyone should ever plop down on it. Allow the curves of this magnificent piece to mesmerize you with figured tiger maple or any other wood you desire. And if green isn’t your color – you can choose another…right along with textured fabric of your choice. Base Price: $20,000.00 Custom TV-Media Center - Armoire Imagine storing your entertainment in this eye-catching reproduction of a Louis XIV 18th century-style armoire. Embrace the beauty of historic French furniture, allowing an artisan to add your very own personal appeal. Base Price: $27,500.00 Custom Poker-Game Table Vermont Woods Studios even has something for the luxury poker player with a handcrafted, poker-game table and matching chairs. Collaborate with an artisan to add your own finishing touches, such as elaborate inlays, retractable drink holders, and custom fabric. Just some of the eco-friendly natural woods to consider: oak, walnut, cherry, maple, and mahogany. Base Price: $26,000.00 Other luxury, eco-friendly standouts include: Custom Mahogany Loveseat (l) (BP: $6,500.00); Heart Shaped Valentines Chairs (c) (BP: $2,999.00); Quilted Vermont Rocking Chair (r) (BP: $1,995.00) Interested in any of the above pieces, contact Vermont Woods Studios for a custom quote. Images: Vermont Woods Studios