Change the look of your home in an environmentally friendly way

It is a fact that the success of recycling is of utmost importance to our society and to make it really work, everyone needs to participate and do their bit. With kerbside recycling schemes being rolled-out across the UK, we are all becoming more aware of the need to partake in the three ‘R’s: reduce, reuse and recycle.

Mountains of waste are being dumped in landfills every year. Though we are all pretty well educated in the processes of recycling small items like aluminium, glass, and paper, how many of us realise just how easy it is to recycle larger items – like a sofa or armchair.

Many of us would like to change our homes the same way we change our seasonal wardrobes, but few of us can actually afford to. A recent survey* carried out to cast light on people’s interior tastes revealed that 60% of people could only afford to redecorate their homes every 2-5 years, even though the same percentage said that their tastes actually changed from year to year.

Luckily now, not only is there a more affordable, stylish and easy solution to instantly change the look of your home, but there is an environmentally friendly one too, enabling you to ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’. Rather than spending a fortune on this season’s fleetingly fashionable designs, or putting up with a shameful suite, you can give your piece of furniture a stunning new look using a unique service: made-to-measure, furniture covers from Covermyfurniture.com.

Says Joanna Whitworth, co-founder of Covermyfurniture.com: “Interior fashions are changing faster than ever. But big items of furniture are too valuable to simply scrap when they go out of fashion. Whatever the shape of your furniture we can cover it – and it makes much more sense environmentally to revive your furniture rather than consigning that much-loved sofa to the skip!”

In the same survey, 33% of respondents used loose covers on their furniture, yet 77% don’t like the look of them. Covers from Covermyfurniture.com, however are made to fit your furniture like a glove, making it look like a brand new piece.

*Carried out by Koan Ltd