Designing Fair Trade Kids' Rooms

Invest in furniture that's good for you and your kids and the communities that produce the pieces when you shop fair trade furnishings and accents from Pottery Barn Kids. These pieces come to your home from places where the designers, artisans and craftspeople who create your goods are given consciously fair treatment during the making and trading process. Check out exceptional kids' design elements, like a loft bed with a built-in study area or an engaging crib mobile made of wool. From play furniture to rugs and many pieces in between, you can find fair trade pieces to adorn your kids' nursery or bedroom in a style both of you will love.

What is Fair Trade Furniture?

Fair trade furniture refers to any piece of furniture that is procured at a value that truly recognizes the efforts of the craftspeople in line with the value the piece creates in your home. You can find fair trade pieces in a variety of aesthetic styles to suit your kids' tastes, just as you would for any other room in your home.

• While this type of trade may seem like it should be a standard practice, it becomes a special designation by virtue of the fact that the trade in some places of origin may be offered at very low prices that don't reflect your lifestyle at home.
• In these instances, many people believe this is an imbalance, so you can feel good about the ethical decision to create a work environment that aligns with the value these pieces have among your things.
• Fair trade collections often find their focus as part of other conscious design movements, such as Earth Day shops, FSC certified pieces that are made of sustainable wood or other sustainable or organic techniques.

Finding Fair Trade Bedding

As you begin to curate a furniture collection that reflects your trade values, you can carry the approach to other elements of your home, such as decor or bedding. Since bedding is changed frequently, many people often have several sets of bedding for their kids. This makes it a prime opportunity in your home to make meaningful decisions.

• A common way to invest in sustainability at home is to choose organic bedding. This is bedding that is made of materials, like cotton or linen, that are grown without harsh chemicals. This kind of growth also uses less water.
• Fair trade bedding may be organic while being produced in communities where skilled fabric producers, weavers or cloth-dying artisans are able to sustain their lifestyles while helping you to enhance yours.
• Check out sheets, blankets, quilts and other textiles, like woven rugs, textile decor for babies or kids and more.

Modern and Sustainable Decor

Take a stand for what you believe when you shop by selecting modern and sustainable decor that looks amazing in your kids' spaces and follow fair trading practices.