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The Furniture We Breathe: Home Furnishing & Indoor Air Quality

Health & Outdoor Living, Home & GardenBy Heather December 6, 2013 Leave a comment

By Heather Chandler Home is our respite; a place where we feel safe. So it may be surprising to learn that indoor air can be two to five times more polluted than the air outside our homes and in some cases even more so. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that the average person…

Musings from the floor: My experience with an off-gassing couch

Health & Outdoor Living, Home & Garden, UncategorizedBy Heather January 15, 2013 121 Comments

Heather Chandler January 3, 2013 This morning, the furniture store came to pick up my new, super sexy, contemporary, sectional sofa, leaving me with an empty living room. The couch arrived less than three weeks ago, wrapped in a lovely, pewter-colored, velvety fabric with a cool rounded “bump out” feature on one end that took…