Furniture Types and Finishes


The right home improvement products, techniques, and services:
Contractors, home improvement stores, and specialty shops in your area may not yet have a complete familiarity with the ‘green’ opportunities, products, system integration, and overall savings potential. So, you may get some resistance, since people in general are typically more comfortable recommending something that they are already familiar with rather than something new. To help break the inertia, use the information across this website like our Return on Investment Master ROI Table. Also feel free to post a question in our forum on the message board about a particular need for your home relative to your area. Our team has spent multiple years aggregating research from public and private sector performance reports and from manufacturers and homeowners across the country in order to provide you with the perspective you may need to see the initial payback and long term advantages. Environmental enthusiasts and leading institutions like the American Institute of Architects and the National Association of Realtors, see the value and link into our resources to support their members.

The Green Home:
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Category Checklist:
Make sure to consider the latest Home Improvement products and services. If you are doing the work yourself or planning on working with a home improvement contractor use this checklist below as a guide to review and ask questions about the preferred products, details, and installation techniques related to:

Furniture Types and Finishes:
Used Furniture, Oak Furniture, Antique Furniture, Furniture Finishes, and Salvaged Furniture.

Tips on Furniture Types and Finishes:
Who of us hasn’t received, by a well-meaning family member, a piece of furniture that, upon first glance is less than a showstopper? Repurposing an old chair or sofa is obviously more eco-friendly than buying a new piece, and many furniture shops and upholstery professionals across the country up the eco-ante with modern and eco-friendly fabrics. The balance of traditional furniture paired with modern, kicky fabrics feels really fresh right now. More often than not, vintage furniture is a triple threat: better made, more personality, and less expensive than the mass produced items that we see everywhere. Almost 90 percent of what we throwaway could be recycled or reused, and furniture is no exception. If you have something that you don’t want or if you are looking for something that you need, try out:
  1. The Salvation Army
  2. Goodwill stores
  3. Ebay
  4. Craigslist
  5. Flea markets
  6. Yard Sales

These are perfect places to unload or snap up a well priced table, sofa, or chair. If the lines of a particular piece of furniture appeal to you, remember that you can always update it with a fresh coat of low VOC paint and new fabric. Overall, key your eyes open for salvage shops, antique shops, and re-upholstery opportunities. Sand down and refinish an old piece rather than necessarily buy a new one. Often the older craftsmanship is better than newer techniques that involve glue over dovetail joints.

Home Improvement Basics:
When it comes to home improvement basics, look for interior home improvements like creating a clean, safe, and healthy home through sustainable ‘green’ furniture, home décor, zero VOC and Interior Paint, plus ENERGY STAR Appliances and Electronics. For energy and utility savings you can focus on insulation and air sealing, windows, doors, lighting and skylights, water saving plumbing opportunities, and high efficiency heating and air conditioning systems. On the outside of your house, look for exterior home improvement opportunities through landscape design and gardening plus solar energy, wind and other power sources. If you are undertaking a major home renovation, an additions, or building a new home, then take the lead to ‘go green’ in as many ways as possible to save money and the environment.

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