The Top 5 Eco Friendly Furniture Brands For Family Homes

Buying eco friendly furniture for your family home is one of the best green decisions a person can make. On top of reducing your electricity consumption and being careful about where you source your food from, it’s a great way to keep your carbon footprint low and make sustainable choices part of your everyday life. 

But not every furniture brand is eco friendly. They may have a few products that meet the criteria, but we can do better than that! You need to dig into the market and find out who the best environmentally focused furniture manufacturers really are. 

And to make sure we put our money where our mouth is, we’ve put together a list of our recommendations for the top 5 eco friendly furniture brands you should try out. If you’re interested in buying green for the living room or kitchen, check it out.

Why sustainable furniture is best for a family home

Nearly 700,000 tonnes of furniture is thrown away every single year in the UK. A lot of this furniture isn’t even in bad condition; it’s perfectly reusable, and could be easily recycled or upcycled into something else. 

Family homes also tend to have a lot more furniture than any other homes. Outfitting your property with as many sustainable items as possible helps to keep your furniture waste cycle to a minimum. 

And let’s face it, it sets a much better example for the kids! 

But what makes furniture sustainable?

Long story short, it’s the material and the manufacturing. 

When furniture is ‘made sustainably’, it means the brand has gone out of their way to use recycled materials and lower their carbon emissions. Other elements make up the process too, but it’s both of these boxes that should be ticked at the very least!

Plus, the furniture in question doesn’t have to be made from 100% recycled materials, but the more the better! 

And as for a green manufacturing style, they should be striving to lower their waste product AND offsetting their carbon footprint on a regular basis too. 

So with all that in mind, here are the 5 best eco friendly furniture brands that we like: 

1. Millie & Jones – Best for eco friendly children’s furniture

Seeing as we buy more kids’ furniture than any other kind, an eco friendly kids’ brand deserves to be top of the list! 

Our top pick for an eco friendly furniture brand is Millie & Jones. Buying from their range of beds for kids and teens comes with an amazing eco promise: they plant 5 trees for every product ordered. 

And seeing as most parents have to buy a new bed at least once a year, that’s a lot of trees going back out into the world! 

We love to see a modern furniture brand putting so much back into the world, especially when their furniture is made to such a high standard as well. 

2. Nkuku – An amazing range of globally-made sustainable pieces

A brand that prides itself on providing handcrafted furniture pieces from artists all over the globe, Nkuku is a great choice for any homeowners who would love to have furniture that’s both unique and sustainable in their house. 

They stock furniture for every room, so you’ll find a good range of sustainable, well made items for your home. You can even get some sustainable pieces for the garden as well. 

And as far as green values go, Nkuku also operates as a B Corp. That gives them a big green tick in our book. 

3. Barker & Stonehouse – Great sustainable choices for living rooms and dining rooms

Barker & Stonehouse don’t have a range that’s entirely sustainably made, but they do have a larger eco friendly line than most other furniture companies of their size. We like to see strides like this being taken!

Their ‘Trees4Trees’ range is their environmentally friendly flagship line. Every furniture item in the line even comes with a tag that shows you where in the world they sourced the wood to make it – down to the exact spot where the new trees have been planted. 

We like their options for both living rooms and dining rooms. They have a great distressed wood style that would fit perfectly in the communal family living spaces. 

4. Sustainable Furniture – Perfect for reclaimed wood lovers

If you’re a fan of reclaimed wood – or even making your own wood working projects – you’ll probably enjoy Sustainable Furniture’s range of recycled furniture. 

They’re an award winning furniture provider, noted for a long term commitment to selling sustainable products made from the highest quality recycled material. 

They have a good range of tables for both indoors and out, storage of all sizes, and plenty of bathroom mirrors and cabinets too. You’ll have plenty of options for where to put shoes, toothbrushes, and everything in between! 

5. Taskers of Accrington – Good choice for those looking for investment pieces

Another brand where sustainability is becoming a bigger part of what they do, Taskers of Accrington is a great furniture shop for finding unique investment pieces for a family home. 

They’re not cheap, by any means, but their sustainable items have a long life ahead of them. They’re often made from recycled waste materials like sea glass, so you can be sure the natural world has been prioritised during production. 

You’ll also find reclaimed wood furniture items here, and plenty of re-upholstered chairs. Invest in these pieces now, look after them for the next generation, and then hand them down to your children when they’re older. 

Decorate your home in a sustainable and stylish way

It’s easier to buy sustainable furniture than a lot of people think, and there are hundreds more brands out there that have committed to producing in a sustainable way! 

And if you think that sustainably means you can’t be stylish, think again! There’s a lot of reclaimed, remade, and recycled designer decor on the market. All you have to do is find the pieces you like and snap them up.