The problem we’re facing

 

In our current digital retail age, as with fast fashion, our fall into fast interior design highlights the expendable ways in which we view products, the planet, each other, and our communities. Pressure is being placed on internet retailers to keep high levels of stock, to fulfill demand, and industry giants have set high expectations for faster customer delivery and fulfillment, at any cost. The chain of negative effects this creates is detrimental but avoidable.

 

​As our hunger for fast furniture, attitudes towards consumerism and lack of care for the hidden costs of such demands have changed, the huge cost of warehousing and the amount of waste that the industry creates has grown. Simultaneously, the systems we have been living in and feeding, have created a society where we’re living in huge socioeconomic disparity.

Many of our people and communities are unable to afford or gain access to the beautiful, and necessary furniture that would fulfill a basic need or create beauty and joy in life, both of which we all deserve to experience. This is a great shame when interior companies face the issue of covering the cost of excess and unwanted furniture and interior goods that are often in a perfect, or certainly redeemable condition, but due to the lack of budget, energy, and resources needed to put in to neutralise the effect of excess stock, if often just becomes a permanent headache or is disposed of in the quickest way possible, often landfill. We decided to not be complacent, watching the joyous use of the materials our planet has gifted us go to waste. So we decided to create a solution.

 

 

The solution

 

We accept unwanted, end of line, or excess interior goods, typically from large, high-end established interior design companies or retailers. We collect the goods, covering all transport and storage costs, and bring them to our studio & warehouse in Frome, Somerset. Our diverse team processes, photograph, market and either directly donate to community projects or re-sell at more than 50% off the original RRP to generate revenue to fund our projects. Our mission is simple, we believe in giving people from every background the opportunity to have access to beautiful things.

 

We aim to support a range of projects from supplying homeless young people with beautiful, comfortable rooms to live in to running career workshops for dis-advantaged young people. If you have a charity or community project and you think you would benefit from our help, we would love to hear from you.