Green Furniture - A Piece of Cleveland

Posted by MCC on October 30th, 2008 at 08:10am

Each year around 1,000 homes are demolished in Cleveland, Ohio. These demolitions are to make room for new homes, businesses and even parking lots. But, the biggest majority of the rubble was ending up in landfills, until “A Piece of Cleveland” was formed.

A Piece of Cleveland is a locally owned business that turns the lumber from buildings slated for demolition into beautifully crafted pieces of furniture. From maple, oak and pine to what ever wood was used, the lumber sometimes over a hundred years old, is being given new life and kept out of the cities dump.

With a desire to help the environment and a love of history, the company tags each new piece of furniture with a little history lesson of where the wood came from. Their first green venture was making cutting boards and chopping blocks which quickly sold out. The huge success prompted the owners to branch out into other pieces of furniture.

Some materials from demolished buildings can be reused to build, wood used to build homes decades ago doesn’t meet the building material codes of today. And, since it can’t be used to build new homes, almost all of the wood was sent to landfills.

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