Create an eco-friendly, sustainably designed living room with cleverly recycled and repurposed home furnishings

If you’re an eco-conscious homeowner, purchasing environmentally-friendly furniture is probably a top priority. Thankfully, with the wide range of sustainably manufactured options available in the market today, you won’t have to sacrifice aesthetics for ethics. Recycled timber, readapted metals, vintage furniture and fabrics made with organic fibres offer chic and imaginative ways to decorate, bringing a touch of industrial hipness into your living room. According to Anita Sam, founder of vintage furniture shop Journey East, one of the most effective ways to make your living room ecofriendly is with products made from recycled or reclaimed materials. “Items crafted from reclaimed timber or even recycled licence plates can add much character to a space,” says Sam, who believes that there is great beauty in imperfection. “A dent or a scratch on a slab of reclaimed wood that has been readapted into a table, for instance, is a reminder of its origin—perhaps it was formerly a column of a