Eco-chic: some original ideas for furnishing your home

Eco-chic furniture: this is how to furnish a house in an elegant and sustainable way. In this article we will provide you with some important tips and suggestions to create a sustainable furnishing of your rooms, respecting the environment and saving energy.

The ethical principle of sustainability is increasingly at the heart of contemporary architecture and design.

Eco-chic furniture should not be confused with another trendy and very trendy style and design in recent years: we are of course talking about Etno-chic furniture inspired by an elegant and refined reinterpretation of the African and Eastern ethnic style (India and Middle East).

Eco-chic furnishing style, what it is

Eco-chic is a furnishing style based on two main concepts: environmental sustainability and elegance. From this combination of innovation and refinement comes a furnishing style that is anything but essential, but inspired by the noble principles of energy saving applied to interior furnishings.

This style of furnishing prefers the predisposition in domestic environments of small details that can make the difference and give rise to a really special and interesting glance: in this regard you can place in your spaces small furnishing accessories and objects, such as baskets, earthenware vases for fresh flowers, or even blankets or textiles in natural fibres.

For this furnishing style, the use of wood plays a fundamental role: wood is the absolute protagonist of Eco-chic design, as long as it comes from sustainable and certified cuts. In this regard, it is important to make sure that the product has the FSC mark; also check that the wood used to make the furniture you have decided to include in your spaces comes from the territory of one of the countries of the European Union.

Eco-chic: use of wicker and creative recycling

Another characteristic of the Eco-chic style is the use of wicker underplates for enchanting wall compositions, or even for the chairs and armchairs found in your rooms.

The Eco-chic style is also characterised by a particular attention to creative recycling: and so the reuse of objects, furniture and furnishing accessories that can find a new place in our environments for a second life is back in fashion.

A classic example of reused furniture is represented by the furniture cabinets that, opportunely restored, can become perfect bathroom furniture: you can, for example, decide to combine the restored cabinets with new washbasins applied on them, in order to create elements with great personality and unique charm.

Recycling and revisiting are the watchwords of the Eco-chic furnishing style: our advice is, for example, to recycle old plastic crates and then repaint them and assemble them together to form a small cabinet with compartments to be set up in your room or study area.

Liven up your living room in Eco-chic style

Giving your spaces elements of elegance and sustainability is an inexpensive and not so complex operation. All you need is a bit of imagination, taste and initiative to create an environment characterised by a good level of attention to the environment and oriented towards energy saving.

Of all the rooms in the house, the living room or dining room is perhaps the one that lends itself most to the introduction of Eco-chic elements. The furnishing element of your living room on which to focus your attention is the dining table: in this regard the use of flowers and buds is always perfect and absolutely suitable to recall the Eco-chic style and to embellish the surface of the table. You can also place in the living room space some vases chosen with particular care and attention, inside which flowers and buds can grow.

Also with regard to Eco-chic furniture in the living room, one of the biggest trends of the moment is the creation of a green wall: it is possible to design and create a green wall in different ways, according to the tastes and preferences of the interior designer. For environments characterized by relatively limited dimensions, you can opt for the installation of small boxes of the same size, in which you can plant small decorative plants.

Furnishing your spaces with branches

Another idea of absolutely Eco-chic furniture is the use of branches: as stated above, wood is a perfect material for Eco-chic furniture. This natural material is characterized by great versatility and for this reason it is perfect even if used in a totally natural state, i.e. in the form of tree branches.

To enhance your Eco-chic side even more, you can for example hang a tree branch from the ceiling of your bedroom and use it as a simple clothes hanger.

Eco-chic: furnishing with pictures and natural panels

In an Eco-chic house you can certainly not miss the paintings and panels made with the help of natural materials. As far as wall decorations are concerned, you prefer unusual paintings, but also mirrors and wicker trays: these table accessories represent the classic wall decoration that distinguishes the Eco-chic style.

If you need to divide two areas in your room without the use of masonry, you can use partition panels made from natural materials: these tools represent the perfect partition solution, both from a design and a functional point of view.

Eco-chic objects and accessories

Finally, to complete our journey of discovery of the Eco-chic style of furnishing, some cues for the choice of objects and accessories to prepare inside your rooms.

This style of furnishing prefers the use of simple and fresh objects and accessories: very common is the use of objects such as sets of vases and glass bottles, in which to put flowers or even stones, sand or other things. These accessories will be very effective to give a touch of freshness and cheerfulness to your environment.