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One of my favorite lifestyle magazines features a monthly section titled "New Uses for Old Things." In this economy, many of you have probably already spent time eyeing the more well-loved items in your dining room and thinking about ways to repurpose them. So in this final blog of our eco-friendly series, we wanted to expand the sustainable dining room furniture discussion to include two materials that have endless new-life potential: reclaimed lumber and stainless steel....

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In our last post we explored the topic of eco-friendly kitchen furniture. That was just the tip of the iceberg—there's a lot more to be written about the strides many dining room furniture manufacturers and sellers (e.g. Dinette.com) are taking to ensure that the environment is being kept in mind.

We mentioned the use of rubberwood to make dining room furniture. Rubberwood has become a much-used product in today's...

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There's never been a better time to go "green"—that is, to put the planet at the top of your priority list. The momentum of this fast-growing movement lends us familiarity with words like "recycle" and "sustainable." Most of us already know that we are capable of doing basic but important things that benefit the planet, such as recycling our garbage and re-purposing old items for new uses. But it's hard to go from the mindset of wanting to be eco-friendly to a place of...

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Reduce, reuse, recycle. You probably hear this call to action pretty regularly, but don’t stop to consider how your furniture buying decisions relate to it. Buying used kitchen furniture is environmentally-friendly, with the added bonus of being kind to your wallet. Follow the trusty tips below for a guide to buying secondhand dining room furniture.

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Gently used dining room furniture items are in abundance, so you won’t have to travel far to begin...

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