Investing in your space has never felt more timely – and there’s loads of ways you can do it sustainably and on the cheap (our two favourite things).
If you’re looking for new furniture, why not scour Facebook Marketplace, Gumtree and charity shops for freebies or cheap bits and bobs? Go into your browsing open-minded and then create your very own daytime TV makeover moment – even the tattiest chair can be revitalised with a fresh lick of paint or some texture from fabrics.
You’ll cut your carbon footprint in more ways than one – by saving perfectly usable furniture from ending up in landfill and by omitting the manufacturing and transport costs it takes to produce and deliver new furniture.
Shopping second hand instead of buying new saved 224,695 tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2019 in the UK alone. And you have the satisfaction of telling everyone you know that your ‘new’ sofa is genuine vintahge.