"Furniture: Are you ready for the indept information on them? "

C“Furnitures: Are you ready for the in-depth information on them?”

“I think about every tree that is cut down, and the power and privilege we have to extend its life and to display it’s beauty in the furniture we make” Dave Allard.

Furniture is an object that is put in the house or offices that solves a purpose, look fairly good and worth its price.

Frames, beds, disks, dressers, cupboards, table chairs etc. are few examples of what David Allard are telling you about.

The woods that comes from the tree were of many types which determines the type of chairs or beds you sit or sleeps on.

Woods has mainly three categories:

Hard woods

Soft woods

Man made wood.

The solidness and durability of the furniture you have or need, depends on the type of wood you use in producing it and skill level of the workmanship behind the work. Not minding that machines does much of the works now, human intelligent and know-how is still what tips the scale at the end.

Years ago, a hotel owner asked my friend to research the prices of bar stool and different designs existing and their qualities.

We were staying in Guangzhou city in Guangdong province China then. We don’t know any fucking thing about quality, prices or designs but we had idea how bar stools looks like.

So, we went to Foshan city that would pass as furniture capital of Guangdong province. We forgot our mission when we got there. There was Army of different furnitures and designs on display over there. Infact, the plaza that house only bar stools will take about two days of diligent and patient walking to and from to observe all the bar stools, prices, designs alone on display there even as a knowledgeable person, let alone Novice like two of us. After days of being lecture by the dealer that at times doubles as producers on the quality and prices, we decided that it would be intelligent to send back the websites of those that showcased mainly barstools and their prices back to the hotelier.

But that visit was an eye opener to us. We came to have little knowledge of all manners of furnitures and their price range that fluctuate most of the time.

There was even article in the Chinese daily that most of the furniture on use in western world comes from China and bears made in the country It is on displayed in.

The woods sourced from china, made by Chinese In china, written made in any country you want it to bear and being shipped and resell to the third party that buys country at high price the buyer equates to that country.

So, if that article that covers not only furnitures but other products were true, then, the prices of furniture you buy near you might equates to the brand and shop you bought it from not the actually but assumed worth of the furniture.

Furniture making falls under manufacturing industry, and according to articles, history that comes from there, china is factory of the world, where the whole world produces anything and everything both legal and illegal that is produceable.

“Everything I build is going to last a lifetime

Generation and it’s always going to hold value too”. – Chad woodruff.

For Chad woodruff to have came out with that quote, it must been in his system, considering his surname. To live up to that quotation requires combination of many things. Good wood, skill, chemicals and equipments, weather conditions etc.

To produce work that will hold for lifetime, generations and value don’t usually comes from the type of place like foshan where the emphasis is on quantity and beauty rather than quality and durability. trees takes years to grow and mature, so, even to live up to woodruff assertion, to meet the demands of the Rich, the trees can’t go round and few of the touches it needs need to be done manually and their manual aspect by skilled worker and they are few to be seen in one concentration. So, Baton kept changing hands, location and time.

Hard woods comes from trees like:

Mahogany, Iroko, Achi, Omah, Owen, maple, birch etc. depending in part of the world you are and they take years to grow and mature to be called hardwood. After cutting them and sawing to produce wood, most requires chemical treatments to make them durable, long lasting, attractive, eco friendly etc.

This is where sanding sealers, solignun, germline 20, termice, chloview, perfect killers etc. comes in. All geared toward making the final products suitable and comfortable for use.

Their work when well applied is to prevent rusting, shrinking, ants infections and other weather condition related shortcomings.

Sanding sealer is applied first and left to dry for at least 30 minutes before applying matching stain or glossy lacquer after mixing them with thinners.

Depending on the work you are doing and type of wood you are using. Some have natural colors of wood: milk, white, ash while some are ox, red in colour. What you are working on will decide the stain to be used after sandpaping, sealer comes In, then glossy lacquer if you want the wood to retain it colour and matching stain if you want to turn the wood red.

The general idea here is that glossy lacquer retains the colour of the wood while matching stain turns woods red.

Both has high and low qualities and prices differs too.

Thinners like the one you add in paints you use for your walls or fences makes the furniture to:

Dry fast,

Look smooth.

The combinations of the above chemicals applied in correct order with high quality hardwood and skilled worker will give high quality furniture that assures: security, comfort, style, beauty, expressiveness like the finish product you see in old farmhouse, shakers and mission style designs of old.