When Catherine Gichugu started Greenit Decors back in 2016, it was to mend a broken heart – hers. A year prior to while building her family home, she was devastated on realising that the Meru Oak tree, a species from which her warm and inviting kitchen cabinets were curved from, was facing extinction.
“When I went back to get more wood for shelves, the cabinet supplier told me that the Meru Oak was an endangered species. I realised that as an end user I had a hand in creating this crisis. Founding Greenit Decors was my way of doing something to ensure it lives on,” she tells me from the garden centre located on Magadi Road.
