Eco-Friendly Furniture

When surrounding ourselves with beautiful and practical things, arranging the interior of our home, unfortunately, not everyone considers the ecological safety of furniture and objects from our daily environment, nor how non-eco-friendly and artificial surroundings can affect our health.

However, when choosing furniture for a room, apartment, or house, most of us are usually guided only by the thought of saving money. This is understandable, as a solid wood furniture set or an expensive orthopedic mattress used to be costly, and during the global financial crisis – even more so.

The furnishing and interiors of most modern apartments are made up of sofas with foam mattresses, at best sofas with orthopedic mattresses, as well as modular or case furniture made from pressed and glued wood shavings. This choice is not always due to a lack of funds to purchase high-quality, eco-friendly, and natural furniture or orthopedic mattresses made from environmentally clean materials. Most of us simply do not understand the real advantages of eco-friendly furniture and orthopedic mattresses for sleep, beyond their visual beauty, durability, and attractiveness. Often, we postpone the purchase of good, health-strengthening furniture until “better times” and a larger family budget. Yet at the same time, few of us consider how quickly low-quality furniture and non-orthopedic mattresses damage our health.

Remember, not long ago modular walls made from fiberboard, chipboard, and MDF were a part of almost every living room. Sofas and corner units stuffed with foam were present in nearly every bedroom. They have not lost much popularity even today. But their owners rarely thought about what substances such furniture emits into the indoor atmosphere, or what damage to the spine and the whole body results from daily rest on a poor-quality latex mattress. For those who bought chipboard furniture, there is some good news: over time, the percentage of harmful emissions from such furniture decreases. But with upholstered furniture and mattresses that have been in use, the outcome is completely the opposite.

The longer a mattress or a soft sofa with an orthopedic mattress is used, the more harm it does to the owner’s health. If an orthopedic mattress is made of synthetic materials, over the years it breaks down inside, loses its shape, and releases into the air harmful substances it has accumulated from the room’s atmosphere. We must not forget that almost all upholstered furniture is made with non-natural regular or orthopedic mattresses. This means that the longer an armchair, bed, sofa, or pouf is used, the greater the harm this furniture causes to your health.