Free Range Design
Recycling in Cape Town

Please see our main site for more details. Visit Free Range Designs for bespoke recycled furniture, reclaimed furniture and eco furniture.

We've been using recycled, reclaimed and ecologically sound materials to create unique pieces of furniture for well over a decade. Our goal at Free Range Designs is to make beautiful, original furniture from eco-friendly materials, and to spread a positive environmental message at the same time. We take our inspiration from the natural world around us and believe in using only low impact, locally-sourced and sustainable materials. We strive to show the beauty of these materials through our furniture, allowing designs to be guided by the natural shape and form of the woods we use, and hope to encourage a respect for nature and engage people with environmentally friendly products. The name Free Range Designs symbolises our way of working, which is born of a desire to create without constraints and take a fresh approach to design and construction, w ith a prevailing can-do attitude. It's a beautiful and inspiring place to work, surrounded by trees and stunning views, and just a stone’s throw away from the beach. As the business has grown we have also set up various satelite workshops to provide additional space and give us the opportunity to work with more local craftspeople. All of the materials we use are sourced within a few miles of our workshop: driftwood is handpicked from our local beaches and other timbers come from reclaimed fence posts, local sustainably managed woods and saw mills, or is recycled through salvage companies and local authorities. Slate is reclaimed from former pool tables or sourced from local slate works. We work with what nature provides to allow the natural features of the materials we use to shine through, making our furniture not only environmentally-friendly, but full of unique character and charm too. Using recycled and reclaimed materials is about more than being environmentally friendly, it’s also a lot of fun!