Living Green With Style
Some very encouraging news on a possible trend in furnishing. For the last several years the trend is that young people gravitated to the big box put your own furniture together after having meatballs for lunch. With those antiques and high-quality furnishings have fallen upon hard times. But this trendy furniture is only cheap in how it is built, not in what you pay and now we learn it is filling our landfills. Most of it doesn't make too many moves before being discarded. Unfortunately, the high-quality older furniture may also find its way to the landfill if no one comes to its rescue when our elder neighbors’ homes are downsized.
But it seems that the trend may be starting to turn. Word is getting out that you can buy this beautiful older furniture for pennies on the dollar, and it has lasted for decades if not centuries already and can again.
If being "Green" and reducing your footprint, what could be better than furniture that the tree was cut for more than a hundred years ago, keeping it out of landfill and not buying new that will fall apart and head to that landfill in a handful of years? Today we are seeing many young people who have learned this and are taking these well-built pieces and repurposing them, if they don't want "brown" wood furniture they paint it to what they want. This may freak out the traditional antique collectors who have guarded the patina and originality, but wouldn't you rather that these pieces survive and be appreciated by a new generation?
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