Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday sits Small Business Saturday®, a day dedicated to helping small businesses and our communities.

We at Terrapeg are proud to take part in Small Business Saturday this year and we encourage you to Shop Small® with us this Saturday, November 24th.

Enroll your American Express credit card to receive a $25 credit for any Terrapeg purchase made at The Franklin Shops On First Street or our limited edition Leoma Lovegrove originals at Lovegrove Gallery & Gardens in Matlacha. 

Two Additional Discounts

• Purchase any limited edition Leoma Lovegrove Terrapeg furniture at Lovegrove Gallery & Gardens during Small Business Saturday and you will also receive an additional $25 discount.  This will give you a combined credit of $50 towards any Leoma Lovegrove original Terrapeg furniture at her gallery in Matlacha.
• Purchase any Terrapeg furniture at The Franklin Shops On First Street and receive 15% off one item or buy one item and get any second item of equal or lesser value for half-price {offer only good until 11/30}.

Also, don’t forget to “Like” and recommend Terrapeg on Facebook.

Many thanks in advance for your support!


Frank & Doreen Schooley

About Terrapeg
Terrapeg is the brainchild of eco-friendly, furniture designer Frank Schooley. Terrapeg’s environmentally friendly designs combine flat pack technology with innovative, recycled fiberboard material to produce affordable, green, beautifully crafted, designer furniture. With more than 30 attractive designs, Terrapeg’s appealing and durable furniture offers everything you need to furnish a home, office or school. 

A little unknown fact about reading cleaning product labels...not all ingredients are listed.  While the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requires ingredients in food to be disclosed - the same isn't true for cleaning products.

Unfortunately often times manufacturers are legally permitted to add untested or unregulated, and potentially harmful, chemicals to household cleaning products without warning unsuspecting consumers.  While some manufacturers list ingredients on their website - here's a check list to look for potential warning signs on cleaning product labels.

1. Look for buzz words like, "danger," "poison," "flammable," etc on the label.  These cautionary words are clues as to the hazardous chemicals in a bottle.
2. No news is bad news.  If a product doesn't have any items listed in its ingredients, it could be a sign the manufacturer is trying to hide something. 
3. Man-made fragrances are a no-no.  Products with descriptions like "fresh scent" and "spring air" are synthetically made to smell a certain way.  Often times they get this man-made scent from using formaldehyde.  It's best to buy products that are scented naturally or with essential oils.
4. Performance claims could indicate an ingredient.  Products that "whiten" are likely to contain bleach.  Did you know that feminine hygiene products are white not because the material used is naturally white but rather because feminine hygiene products are bleached white?  Dig a little deeper to see exactly how products claim to get that "streak free shine." 
5. Packaging is key.  Products that come in recycled materials are more likely to contain ingredients that are not synthetic vs. products that are not packaged in recycled materials.

Download Seventh Generation's Label Reading Guide to help you better understand what's in the cleaning product you just purchased.

READERS: What do you look for when purchasing eco-friendly cleaning products?

About Terrapeg
Terrapeg is the brainchild of eco-friendly, furniture designer Frank Schooley. Terrapeg’s environmentally friendly designs combine flat pack technology with innovative, recycled fiberboard material to produce affordable, green, beautifully crafted, designer furniture. With more than 30 attractive designs, Terrapeg’s appealing and durable furniture offers everything you need to furnish a home, office or school. 

LEOMA LOVEGROVE Paints Terrapeg Live
at Fort Myers ART WALK

Frank Schooley, voted Pine Island's best cabinet maker, and designer of Terrapeg's affordable eco-friendly furniture, and artist extraordinaire Leoma Silberg of Lovegrove Gallery & Gardens will partner at Fort Myers Art Walk.

Leoma's works are displayed in galleries throughout the world.  Her art is instantly recognizable for its exuberant technique and tropical color palette.

Visit The Franklin Shops On First Street for "Leoma Paints Live."  Watch as Leoma tranforms Frank's beautifully crafted and "green" Terrapeg furniture into a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.  Leoma's piece will be available for sale during Art Walk.

Can't make Art Walk?  No worries - Leoma's exclusive and limited edition Terrapeg pieces will be for sale at The Franklin Shops On First Street and Lovegrove Gallery & Gardens in Matlacha.


The Franklin Shops | 2200 First Street | Fort Myers, FL | (239) 333-3130
Hours: Mon-Thurs 10am - 6pm | Fri - Sat 10am - 8pm | Sunday: Closed

Leoma Lovegrove Gallery & Gardens | 4637 Pine Island Road | Matlacha, FL | (239) 283-6453
Hours: Mon-Sat 11am - 6pm | Sunday: 12 - 4pm

About Terrapeg

Terrapeg is the brainchild of eco-friendly, furniture designer Frank Schooley. Terrapeg’s environmentally friendly designs combine flat pack technology with innovative, recycled fiberboard material to produce affordable, green, beautifully crafted, designer furniture. With more than 30 attractive designs, Terrapeg’s appealing and durable furniture offers everything you need to furnish a home, office or school. 

While everyone knows electronics use energy - did you also know electronics use energy even when they aren't in use?

Energy.gov estimates using the sleep mode on your computer can save as much as $50 a year on your electric bill. 

And while using the computer's sleep mode can save some cash so can unplugging electronics when not in use.  Better still even if you're using a surge protector, just flip the surge switch to off when items aren't in use.

READERS: What are some of your energy saving tips around the house?

About Terrapeg

Terrapeg is the brainchild of eco-friendly, furniture designer Frank Schooley. Terrapeg’s environmentally friendly designs combine flat pack technology with innovative, recycled fiberboard material to produce affordable, green, beautifully crafted, designer furniture. With more than 30 attractive designs, Terrapeg’s appealing and durable furniture offers everything you need to furnish a home, office or school. 

In keeping with Terrapeg's environmentally friendly approach to furniture manufacturing, we expanded our line by using a non-toxic green fiberboard material called Valchromat®. 

Valchromat is an eco-friendly colored wood fiberboard made from forest waste, residue from timber mills and recycled pine. The creation of Valchromat is equally environmentally friendly as there are zero carbon emissions during the manufacturing process. 

It's available in eight colors (red, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, grey and black).  Valchromat gets its color from eco-friendly sustainable organic dyes being added during the manufacturing process.  It has been approved by the British Standards Association for the safe use in manufacturing of children's toys.  Valchromat is also moisture and UV resistant.

We at Terrapeg are excited to produce our eco-friendly line of living, dining, bedroom, office and children’s furniture in Valchromat’s eight colors.

Read more about Valchromat’s commitment to environmental responsibility.

About Terrapeg

Terrapeg is the brainchild of eco-friendly, furniture designer Frank Schooley. Terrapeg’s environmentally friendly designs combine flat pack technology with innovative, recycled fiberboard material to produce affordable, green, beautifully crafted, designer furniture. With more than 30 attractive designs, Terrapeg’s appealing and durable furniture offers everything you need to furnish a home, office or school. 

Medium density fiberboard (MDF or fiberboard) is a commodity material made from the earth’s most basic renewable material, recycled wood fibers. It will always be easy to plant more trees and several varieties grow quickly without fertilizer or pesticides.

Fiberboard is different from particleboard in many important
  ways. You know particleboard, its’ been around for 50 years that I know about, it’s the go-to material for low end furnishings. Those impressive looking desk sets at the ‘office supply’ store are all particleboard. The furniture at
Wallyworld is usually particleboard with a vinyl woodgrain finish. It crumbles, is weak at the joints and is lousy at holding screws but it’s cheap and therefore irresistible to industry. Get it wet and it crumbles into a pile of sawdust, another reason I call it ‘organized sawdust’. I own a kitchen cabinet business and for many years particleboard was practically the only material used for cabinets because it can be bought with the desired finish already printed on it, saving time and money. When Hurricane Charlie struck Southwest Florida in 2004, particleboard kitchens melted and overnight no one wanted it again. Our cabinet shop converted production to sustainable plywood and never looked back.

Both particleboard and fiberboard are made from every part of the tree that is not cut into lumber. This is called pre-consumer recycled material. Where particleboard is sawdust glued together, fiberboard is wood chips that have been cooked and broken down into individual fibers. These fibers are then rolled out and squeezed under high pressure and finally baked into a hard, dense sheet. The result is a material that looks like brown paper, has fibers running in every direction and is therefore, very strong. It is, in every way, man-made wood, with the color and surface texture of a brown paper bag but without the weakening wood grain. In the past, urea-formaldehyde glue was mixed in to bind the fibers together but new, very strict, federal formaldehyde regulations have forced manufacturers to switch to more expensive acrylic binders. Add enough of these acrylics and the fiberboard is water resistant, add more and it is waterproof.

However, fiberboard has a problem, one serious flaw. It does not glue, screw or nail well.  This has limited its uses and is the reason you have never bought fiberboard furniture because manufacturers and designers could not figure out how to join this wonderful, green material.

I developed and have a Patent Pending on what I call ‘The Tool-Free Joint’. This mortise and through-tenon joint with a locking peg is as old as Joseph the Carpenter and very easy to assemble. Designing it to be completely cut using automatic machinery is a patentable breakthrough. This Joint accentuates the positive aspects of the fiberboard material (no wood grain means new free-spirited designs are possible), eliminates the negative aspects (the joining problems: we don’t mess with Mister In-between) and allows the structural use of fiberboard for the first time. Finally, we cut a simple hammer from the left over space between parts (reducing waste), and include it with every piece of furniture sold. Since this hammer is the same density and hardness, it does not mark or mar the finish when used for assembly.

About Terrapeg

Terrapeg is the brainchild of eco-friendly, furniture designer Frank Schooley. Terrapeg’s environmentally friendly designs combine flat pack technology with innovative, recycled fiberboard material to produce affordable, green, beautifully crafted, designer furniture. With more than 30 attractive designs, Terrapeg’s appealing and durable furniture offers everything you need to furnish a home, office or school. 

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