When furnishing your home on a budget, buying used furniture can seem appealing. While used furniture can save you money, some items come with additional headaches that just aren’t worth it. When it ...

What do Australian Victoria's Secret supermodel and entrepreneur Miranda Kerr, Palm Beach chic, recycled plastic bottles and an industrial revolution in woodworking have in common? They were all ...

As the saying goes, everything old is new again, and sometimes that includes modern furniture. The appeal of modern design's spare lines and forms has combined with the desire to reduce, reuse and ...

Recycling has become the norm in many communities. The detritus of our daily lives — plastic, glass, metal and paper — makes its weekly trek to processing plants across the country. Much of it gets ...

Folks at C.R. Plastic Products Inc. are too busy to lounge in the high-end recycled plastic outdoor furniture they make in Stratford, Ontario. Sales for the firm have been rising 40 percent a year in ...

Designed by Mario Bellini for Meritalia, an Italian furniture maker, the Via Latteafurniture line looks like a collection of homemade marshmallows. Light as air, these chairs and couches are made from ...

Josh Massari and Miles Swaim started OC Recycled Furniture with $60 and a used couch. Swaim, from Colorado, and Massari, from Oregon, met at Arizona State University in 2004. In 2011, Massari bought a ...

DILLON ” When local Ken Orlin was asked to dump furniture at the landfill two years ago, he instead found it a home. “I thought: ‘Why am I throwing perfectly good furniture?’ So, I put an ad in Summit ...