Q: We bought a sofa about eight years ago from Macy’s Home Store, but it no longer looks fresh and sharp. The seat cushions are showing wear and have creases from front to back. The fabric also should ...

For the uninitiated, polyurethane foam, long the default in upholstered furniture, actually carries a heavy environmental toll, from its petrochemical origins to landfill persistence. Increasingly, ...

Your furniture could kill you. According to the US National Fire Protection Association, nearly 20 percent of home fire deaths between 2006 and 2010 occurred in fires where upholstered furniture was ...

A sleeper-sofa mattress upgrade: Milliard 4.5-inch Memory Foam Replacement Mattress It doesn’t take much to improve upon the busted, old mattress—or the disappointing new one—lurking in your sofa bed.

Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a method to recycle polyurethane foam from mattresses and furniture ...