Environmentally friendly furniture

Furniture is something that has been around us since our birth. We are used to it, and once it was considered an element of luxury. Today, the market offers a rich variety of choices. However, you should seriously think about the quality of your products and your health. This article is devoted to the problem of environmental friendliness of the "luxury" that surrounds us ...

Everyone sooner or later faces the question of buying furniture. Today there are a huge number of manufacturers, designers and other professionals who offer their services in this difficult business. All sorts of markets, salons and boutiques show exclusive examples of sofas, kitchens, bedrooms and other "beauty."

Well, the issue of sofas, to be exact - upholstered furniture, we will not let down and touch until the next article. It is much more interesting to discuss such a capacious topic as CASE FURNITURE. This includes kitchens, hallways, all kinds of cabinets, furniture for bathrooms and children's rooms, cabinets, libraries and so on and so forth.

When an ordinary person comes to the store, he is told, perhaps, that it is possible to order furniture from solid wood or from MDF (or in general - chipboard). Different types of finishes are possible (veneer, plastic, staining, etc.), but in fact a person chooses only two types of material, believing that there are no others. Often the sellers themselves are not aware of all the novelties and modern materials, but we will not be too strict with them.

So. Solid wood furniture. Here there is a small trick: the facades (doors) can be made of an array, but the bodies themselves often do not. Furniture that is made entirely from the array is several orders of magnitude higher. And the material itself - an array of wood - is very cranky. Whatever the level of mastery, there is a possibility that it will "lead". More precisely, it's inevitable.

Furniture made of MDF or chipboard is not environmentally friendly furniture, because they are still based on substances hazardous to human health. Yes, in higher-quality MDF materials of higher quality are used, but still - it will not be environmentally friendly.

By the way, there is a way to distinguish ecologically clean furniture from one that is not. Consider the example of the cabinet. If you open a cabinet that is made of environmentally friendly materials, then inside it will always be pleasant to smell like wood or some kind of wood. In the case where MDF is used, the DSP - odor will be unpleasant.

Someone might ask: "What difference does it make to me, how does the closet smell inside?" A logical question, but there is a logical answer: in the closet you store clothes and shoes (if it's a wardrobe), which you then put on yourself or your children. Scientists have long talked about the effects of odors on the human body. Just washed clothes smell clean and fresh, but it's worth it to hang it in the closet, as in a couple of days from a pleasant smell there is no trace. But this is only if your furniture is made of MDF or chipboard. When you feel unpleasant odors, you are depressed, your working capacity is deteriorating, and for a long time this "insignificant" odor effect can lead to prolonged depression.

Just why should you? You do not need this!

After all, there are fine furniture materials on the market that do not differ much at the same prices from the same MDF and chipboard, and quality - a hundredfold! And while they are environmentally friendly and stable - this means that there is no threat of deformation!

What are these materials? This is an Italian joiner's board from poplar company IBL-Rus, which is a multi-layer slab. The layers ensure the strength and stability of the material, and the composition - in fact it is a poplar array - ecological. Of course, the layers are glued together, but for this special glue is used, which does not have a negative impact on health. To manufacturers this material will be interesting by its technical characteristics: durability and light weight, ease and convenience in processing, the possibility of "repair" (for example, in the chipboard after a mistaken hole, it's impossible to fix the situation unlike the situation with the carpentry board), and so on.

Someone will ask the question: why Italy? What do we have, there is not enough forest? But such a question does not put us at a dead end. First of all, we have a lot of forests, of course, but this does not mean that we have to cut it down for the needs of our contemporaries, completely without thinking about future generations. Secondly, the Italian manufacturers for more than half a century practiced the technology of production and very well in their business. It is very important fact - wood used for the production of the joinery is specially grown on the territory of the enterprise: the climate and the use of special poplar varieties make it possible to produce the material in the required volume and at an operational speed. Thirdly, so understandable to our compatriots is the level of product quality: each sheet is verified to within a tenth of a millimeter. The absence of marriage always has a positive effect on the image of the manufacturer, and on the satisfaction of the buyer.

Furniture from the carpentry board will please you with its quality always! Even after a time in your closet will not appear an unpleasant smell, irritating not only the sense of smell, but also the nerves.

But ecologically clean furniture material will be not only the Italian joinery of poplar, but also the plywood of the same manufacturer - IBL Rus. It would seem that the new can be in this material? Not so simple. Time goes by, technology develops, product quality rises. This is what is happening now on the furniture market: the Italian company offered the world an environmentally friendly, lightweight and durable plywood with a completely different quality of work with the material. Now the producers have a wonderful compliant material that can be easily offered to their customers: it is much more convenient to work with it compared to outdated versions, and the quality is several times higher. If you compare the Italian plywood (it is different: poplar, gabon, seiba, sea, or moisture resistant) with birch - it is not only ecologically and decorative, but also with mass, strength and quality of processing. Birch plywood has a density of about 970 kg / cc, and in Italy, irrespective of the wood species - 420 kg / cube (!). Note that the strength characteristics are higher than that of birch domestic plywood! What does "quality of processing" mean? Imagine the situation when the milling cutter processes a part from birch plywood: irrespective of the level of its craftsmanship, chipped and "potholes" appear on it, and, deep enough, which is completely inconvenient to close afterwards. In Italian plywood, there are no such minuses, except the POSSIBILITY of the smallest defects in 1% of cases! And then the defects are completely incompatible with defects in domestic plywood!

BUY ONLY QUALITY MATERIALS! Take care of your health - buy only environmentally friendly furniture!