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Green Sleep: Eco-Friendly Mattresses

Did you know that your current mattress may have polyurethane and formaldehyde in it. Not only are those harmful materials for the environment, they aren't the best chemicals to be sleeping on. Unless...

Amenity's New Muir Bed

Whenever we post Amenity's organic bedding, we almost always get a question in the comments about the bed they use for photo shoots. It's a custom bed made by Amenity, and until now it hasn't been a...

A Greener Mattress: Simmons Natural Care by Danny Seo

By using a combination of natural latex, Tencel, soy-based foam, recycled steel and wood from accredited and sustainably managed forests, Danny Seo has helped create a greener, affordable mattress f...

Keetsa Mattresses

Walking to a meeting in San Francisco last week we noticed the Keetsa Mattress store. Curiosity and Susie's question about foam mattresses compelled us to take a look around. We didn't know what to e...

Team 7 Non-Toxic Bedroom Furniture

Green up your bedroom. Team 7 is a leading manufacturer of green, non-toxic furniture for many rooms of the house, but perhaps most importantly, the bedroom......

Team 7 Non-Toxic Bedroom Furniture

Green up your bedroom. Team 7 is a leading manufacturer of green, non-toxic furniture for many rooms of the house, but perhaps most importantly, the bedroom......

Ayres Twin Trundle Bed by Argington

For those of you who were frightened by the cross-like mast on the Pirate Bed we blogged last week, or just frightened by the price tag ... We offer this as an apology....

Best Healthy Mattresses

In honor of bedroom month here at AT, we thought a we'd pull together all the healthy mattresses we've heard about, slept on, or admired over the last few years. Having a healthy, comfortable, supp...

Blogging The Architectural Forum... from 1937!

Recently, we were given a 1937 issue of Architectural Forum dedicated to domestic interiors. We've been fascinated by all the attention given to the home by leading architects and designers of the da...

Pirate Bed by Loftus Designs

When we were little, we were always kind of jealous of the kids in our class who had those really cool plastic race car beds. You know the ones we're talking about? They were great because you could...

Penner Design's Eco-Furniture

Formaldehyde. We didn't like the smell of it when we had to dissect frogs in our high school biology class and we don't like it in our homes. And, after all we've read about the horrible health eff...

Bower Natural Bedding

Very good news for the first day of February which is Bedroom month on AT. Chicago has a new local source for organic bedding. Located on Grand between Damen and Western, it's a welcome new outpost...

Repurposed Furniture by Kramer Design Studio

Repurposed ironworks. We love furniture pieces that adapt found objects: they bring a little something old into even modern homes in sometimes witty ways. That's exactly what we're seeing from Krame...

Pure-Rest Organics

Representing the healthy side of the spectrum, Pure Rest is a great, highish-end resource for ALL NATURAL bedding and mattresses. They do it all, specializing in two kinds of mattresses; organic cott...

A Green Search: The Best Air Mattress Alternative

Help! We have a kind of complicated problem: As a critical step in our Fall Cure we sold a rarely-used futon to make way for a much-needed desk. Then, yesterday, we found out that three good frien...

Gustavian Vintage Bed at VivaTerra

You know how when you come home after being away, it feels so good to sleep in your own bed again? If we had VivaTerra's Gustavian Vintage Bed, we'd probably never even want to leave in the first pl...

Organic Crib Mattress

It is easy to overlook a crib mattress. They don't add to the style of your nursery, and for the most part are covered by great baby linens. But if you are thinking about making your world a little gr...

Good Questions: Where Do I Find a Good (looking) Green Bed?

Devra sent us an email: HELP! I've got an unprecedented (for me, at least) opportunity to make an investment in sustainable furniture, and what I really want to do is find a good bed. I've dedicated...

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