1.West Elm

This brand appears in all charts dedicated to sustainable home décor and interior design. Indeed, their factories are FSC-certified, which means that they source all their commodities from responsibly managed forests, preserving the local environment.

All the items are ethically produced in the United States, which minimizes emissions and impacts caused by long-distance transportation. Moreover, the West Elm factories avoid using chemicals and synthetic add-ons, which makes their furniture safe for those who make and buy it.

2. Avocado

Once you have been searching for an eco-friendly mattress for your sustainable bedroom, you have definitely heard about this brand. However, they also offer bed frames and nightstands.

The distinctive feature of Avocado bedroom furniture is that it is locally made in California entirely out of reclaimed wood. They also avoid chemical retardants in their furniture manufacture, which makes it safe for the environment and people.

The brand is a member of the 1% club, which means that with every purchase, you help it invest in environmentally significant projects and researches.

3. Citizenry

Another brand mostly famous for its ethical home décor offers a wide range of sustainable furniture pieces made by artisans from all over the world.

The brand makes sure that all the commodities for their furniture are responsibly derived or come from fast renewing sources such as rattan vine, bamboo, etc.

Here you can find all sorts of furniture from garden benches and armchairs to complete sauna sets.

The brand invests as much as 10% of its income into programs that preserve and develop artisan craftsmanship and help independent workshops and artists stay safe and earn their fair wages in fair and healthy conditions.

4. Joybird

Who said that stylish minimalistic furniture in the trendy Scandinavian style is only designed and made in Europe? Joybird is a Mexico-based factory that offers a wide range of trendy, classy, yet sustainable and ethical furniture pieces for every room of your house or your office.

The factory provides its employees fair wages, safe working conditions, and comprehensive medical care for all family members.

Also, the brand is famous for its environmental policy, which provides that they plant more trees than they use for manufacturing each furniture piece.

5. Sabai

This brand offers seemingly simple and basic furniture. However, this principle allows them to remain one of the most sustainable furniture manufacturers in the United States and provide their customers endless customization options on the ways.

Their basic bottoms and sofas can be transformed into exclusive pieced upon your request. At the same time, all materials used for upholstery and decoration and entirely recycled. The brand uses recycled textile sourced from landfills and even creates an exclusive upholstery material entirely out of plastic waste.

All their pieces are highly durable, scratch and stain-resistant. Moreover, all this furniture is modular and can be re-shaped any way you want it.

The furniture is also easy to assemble and transport, which helps the company keep it high-quality and eco-friendly while being affordable.

6. ABC Home

This brand is an example of how any furniture manufacturer can turn into a sustainable and ethical brand under the qualified management of dedicated professionals.

Today ABC Home is not only one of the trendiest furniture brands but also a passionate activist that fights against erratic deforestation and protects women’s rights worldwide. They derive their commodities from ethically managed forests. The upholstery is made from materials provided by Indian women-led workshops, which also work responsibly according to fair-trade principles, providing a safe environment and fair wages to all employees.

7. Medley

The brand has originally started as a sustainable and eco-friendly company. That is why today, they might have the richest experience and knowledge about ethical furniture manufacture.

Making their furniture safe and fire-proof, they don’t use any harsh chemical redundant and concentrate their commodities sourcing and manufacture as close as possible, reducing carbon emissions caused by transportation.

Creating clean and minimalistic models for any house or office, they offer wide customization options, which can turn any basic sofa into an exclusive furniture piece.

8. Chairish

Remember our talk about pre-owned furniture? Chairish is a marketplace where you can buy stylish vintage furniture safely with a warranty and certificates that prove its authenticity.

Here you can also find new furniture pieces from independent designers, artisan workshops, and furniture brands that work ethically according to fair trade principles.

Above all, the marketplace has a blog with numerous tips on how to make your home décor sustainable and distinguish between truly eco-friendly and “greenwashing” brands.

Another distinctive feature of the marketplace is that it offers scholarships for students and artisans who want to research and develop eco-friendly furniture manufacture.

9. Thuma

Another brand that offers sustainable bedroom furniture for your true goodnight’s sleep. All the commodities for their beds and nightstands come from responsibly managed forests and specially-established tree plantations. Moreover, the brand plants the same amount of trees that have been used for their manufacture annually.

To keep their sustainable beds affordable, the brand has developed a special design that allows customers to assemble their furniture in a matter of several minutes without assistance or additional tools.

10. Burrow

If you are not just trying to stick to sustainable lifestyle principles but also have peculiar demands for your furnishing due to skin sensitivities and chronic respiratory diseases, this brand is exactly what you are looking for.

They are making their incredibly comfortable sofas out of sustainable and upcycled materials and deliver them locally in 100% recycled cardboard packaging.

All their products are free from formaldehyde as well as chemical fire retardants and lead. They are safe for people with skin conditions, severe respiratory diseases, children, and even pets. Easy to clean, they won’t require any chemical cleaning products.

11. Etsy Reclaimed Furniture

We all know and love Etsy as a marketplace where you can buy handmade products from all over the world. However, it has recently become one of the trendiest sources of sustainable furniture.

Here you can find truly unique pieces of reclaimed and upcycled furniture from independent designers.

Being a B-corp-certified company, Etsy is among those marketplaces that support artisanal from all over the world, promoting them and their craftsmanship.

The best thing about this marketplace is, of course, the fact that new items appear every day, making the choice possibilities is literally limitless.

12. What We Make

It is your one-stop-shop to buy eco-friendly sustainable furniture for home and office.

Made entirely out of reclaimed wood, those furniture pieces are modern and vintage-looking at the same time. Here you will find trendy minimalistic designs and highly functional furniture pieces that make their furniture most efficient, especially for home offices or small living places.

All the furniture is also entirely handmade. Not only the carpentry but also metallic details, which are hand-welded and hand-woven textile, make each piece truly unique and particularly significant.

13. Masaya & Co

It is another furniture brand that managed to combine modern design trends with the highest principles of ethical manufacture and distribution.

Made out of sustainably sourced Teak, Royal Mahogany, and Rosita Walnut, those sofas and couches are covered with non-toxic finishing, which makes them particularly durable. Moreover, the factory itself is pretty for its exclusive practices that allow them to loop the manufacture making it low-impact and zero-waste.

14. Emeco

It is one of the oldest sustainable furniture brands in the United States. Started as a furniture manufacturer for the US Army back in the 1940-s, the brand has come up with several innovative solutions that allow them to make chairs that can last up to 150 years.

Later on, they took this principle and developed it into a sustainable policy, offering minimalistic furniture designs that require minimum commodities while being durable and low-maintenance, which helps them stay always from landfills and dumpsters.

Made with recycled aluminum, those chairs are durable and lightweight. But the best thing is that their manufacture requires 97% less energy. They also use cork – one of the most sustainable furniture materials in the world, which also makes their chairs 100% recyclable.

15. Urban Wood Goods

This women-owned brand started as a private workshop many years ago. The founder simply wanted to fix vintage furniture and create new pieces out of reclaim=med wood. However, today it is one of the biggest furniture manufacturers that use 100% recycled wood.

While 30 million tons of wood end up in landfills every year, the brand sees its mission as showing people that it is one of the easiest materials to recycle today.

Another distinctive feature of the brand is that they avoid overprocessing. It allows them to produce truly unique pieces that preserve the original texture, color, and even nail holes from the previous designs while saving a great deal of energy on manufacture.

16. The Joinery

It is another sustainable brand that offers furniture both for living and commercial spaces.

Here you will find chairs, tables, desks, and beds, which are made out of sustainable, ethically derived materials. The manufacture is FSC-certified, which means that it has the lowest impact on the environment. The barbed itself claims that all their furniture pieces have a much longer lifespan than the actual trees they are made of.

Last year the brand was named America’s healthiest employer for its labor policies that support the ideas of cultural, racial, and gender diversities, creating a safe, ethical workspace for each employee.

17. Greenington

The company calls itself a “capsule wardrobe for your interior.” Indeed, here you will find basic minimalistic furniture pieces with clean and plain silhouettes and natural colors and textures that will fit into any interior or living space.

The brand produces all its products out of sustainable commodities like the Morso Bamboo, which is known as one of the fastest-growing plants on Earth.

Greenington works according to fair trade policies, providing ethical work conditions to all employees, fair wages, and competitive conditions for their suppliers.

18. Alabama Sawers

The brand produces its shelves, chairs, and tables out of wood that is considered “waste” by other manufacturers and timbers.

During their history, Alabama Sawers has kept thousands of logs off landfills.

This way, they don’t only prevent the growth of those highly impactful sites but also save one of America’s most valuable resources from waste.