The Ultimate Guide to Creating Sustainable Furniture

如今，可持续性是黄金标准，但这并不意味着您无法瞄准可持续的事物和beautiful at the same time.

创建可持续的家具是一种绝妙的爱好，也是停止过度耗费和保护我们的地球的好方法。它还为您提供了关于您家的颜色，图案，家具风格和整体氛围的绝对说法，因为您可以升级无论你想要什么。

如果您想开始升级，以便您有一个时髦的可持续家具收藏，请继续阅读！

What is sustainable furniture?

Sustainable furniture is made from materials with minimal or no negative effect on the environment. These materials include:

• Wood from renewable resources, or upcycled wood
• 很少有可能损害环境的化学物质
• Local materials to eliminate transportation pollution
• 升级的内饰材料等

绿色/可持续家具的好处

• Cause less damage to the environment
• 通过消除有害材料和化学物质，使您的房屋更安全
• Gives old materials a new lease of life instead of ending in the landfill.
• Green furniture is beautiful

Getting the right tools

您也许可以在家中散布零碎的东西，但是我们建议您为您的可持续家具项目提供正确的工具。

一般来说，您将需要一个圆锯, industrial staples, hot glue, paint, varnish to treat woods, and anything else that really catches your fancy that you would like to incorporate into your家具概念。

装备合适的工具将为您节省很多时间，这将使您的家具看起来专业化，而不是一些黑客项目。毕竟，仅仅因为您做的并不意味着它必须看起来DIY。

五金店和您当地的手工艺品商店将成为获得符合任务的优质商品的最佳场所。

获得灵感

您要实现特殊的东西吗？如果您有一件家具，请务必打算创建一些家具，以便您可以参考一些东西，以便您知道自己在正确的轨道上，这总是一个好主意。

Your inspiration might come from the existing furniture in your home that you want to tweak and revitalize, or you might have seen something at a friend’s place or in a magazine that you simply must create on your own.

Inspiration will come from many places, and it might even be a piece of fabric that you love that you want to put into furniture some mail. Consider creating a情绪板或剪贴簿，您可以在一个地方整理所有灵感和想法。

Keep a budget

哦，具有讽刺意味的是，要完成一个可持续的项目，只是发现您花费的远远超过了购买新的。

现在的可持续性不仅是为了节省资金，还涉及保护我们的地球，而且我们绝对建议将upcycle budgetin place so you don’t get too excited and spend more money than you anticipated.

If you are buying the piece of furniture that you are upcycling second hand, you should factor in this cost, and then the fabrics, tools, and other bits and pieces required to complete the project.

如果您知道自己只花了15美元，而不是售价超过100美元，那么最终结果就会变得更加甜蜜。

This might be a challenge for you to find more items around the house so that you don’t need to tune into your budget. Who knows, maybe your first piece of created furniture costs you $80, and then you can try and halve that for your next piece!

安全第一

When dealing with old furniture, sharp tools, and smelly paints and sprays it is so important that you practice safety. The last thing you want to do is get tetanus or breathe in anything that you shouldn’t.

Wearing a facemask is a great idea when applying paint or spray, and you can even wear some gardening gloves when you are doing some of the rough work like pulling the fabric from stitches and staples.

If you will be using circular saws as described above, be sure to watch a video so you know exactly how to use it or ask for help. It’s also a great idea to tell someone what you are doing that day or have them there to supervise if you plan on using these big sharp tools.

之前和之后

You are going to absolutely kick yourself if you forget to snap a ‘before’ picture and you don’t have anything to show for all your hard work and creative concepts.

为了获得最大的效果，请尝试确保您的“之前”和“后”镜头在家里相同的光线和相同的位置拍摄，以便您可以真正看到差异。

如果这是您真正有诀窍的活动，您甚至可能想创建一个社交媒体帐户，您可以在其中发布自己的精美作品的图片以及您的下一份工作的任何灵感。

Remember to use hashtags so that you attract the right audience and can connect with other like-minded people creating sustainable furniture.

结论

What a fun way it is to spend the weekend making furniture and breathing life into something loved.

如果您选择出售自己的作品，或者您只想拥有一个可持续的时尚房屋，并且不花钱，这可能会变成一个非常有利可图的方面。无论计划如何，您的项目都祝您好运！