The “Green Movement” in decorating and interior design, is the support of environmentally friendly products and  opposition  to those that pollute or hurt the environment.

      Antique iron beds have turn out to be one of the most popular items being used by green decorators today. There are no better sustainable/green objects than antique furniture. Iron beds have gone through generation upon generation and still maintained their unique strength and beauty. Antique iron beds have already left their “footprint” on our earth and take nothing from the surroundings today to produce, as do reproductions that are currently being made and demand new steel production and all the energy that it needs to produce them. Along with that needed energy come the pollutants and serious “footprint” left by anything made of steel and aluminum today.

      At the forefront of today’s “Green”  movement  in decorating are a sizeable number of interior designers from New York, Texas and Florida. Decorators appear to be the biggest group looking for sustainable/green items to decorate with, and iron beds seem to be one of their favored decorating items. The more the general public requests “green” decorating and design, the more interior designers will look for those things that don’t present a unfavorable effect on our planet to produce. Of course any form of antique is by far the ideal thing we can utilize because of it’s negative impact.

     In an age when decorating with “green” intentions has become so crucial to our surroundings and future generations, what better way to go green and recycle than to use original antiques that were made back in the 1800′s and have no impression on our environment because their manufacturing “footprint” is non-existent today.

   We desperately need to produce a culture of resourceful reuse by developing a market for reclaimed products like iron beds and cultivating a regard for their value. 

 There is no better way to look to the future than to reuse the past.