Shopping our favorite Black-owned businesses for furniture and decor is a year-round pleasure of ours, but for Black History ...

Jillian Elliott is an artist and florist. She transformed her 650-square-foot Brooklyn rental apartment with cozy vintage finds, storied objects, and lots and lots of pretty floral patterns.

The craftsman makes sturdy ladder-back chairs through green woodworking, a technique that carves out furniture from a log. Its seats are finely woven, and the two horizontal bars that connect the two ...

They can be restored, recovered, repurposed and more. You can also use these techniques to customize new furniture.