Wooden-made furniture still has demand in the market. Especially after the industrial revolution the sale of solid wood furniture declined and people started to use steel, aluminum and plastic made furniture. But in recent times solid wood-made furniture again gets the prominence in the market.
Research showed that with the passage of time, especially after the 1950s. The sale of wood-made furniture is going high. People again started to show their interest in solid wooden made furniture because these wooden made articles like dining room chairs and tables, bar stools, and other things would be more durable, easy maintenance, and more versatile.
Durability:
Let’s start our article with the factor of durability that mostly matters when a person goes to buy furniture. Cheaper materials won’t give you a high level of durability and sturdiness. Cheaper materials get plagued with time and you would have to spend more money than you save to buy a cheap material product.
Solid-wood-made furniture requires very low maintenance like you need to polish your furniture articles once a year and nothing more than that. The durability depends on the wood being used to make your furniture items. Hardwoods like white oak, walnut, and cherry wood are some of the best wood for making good quality furniture items.
The furniture that is made from hardwood can even care for your generations to come despite being used heavily. On the other hand, if your furniture is made from softwood like cedar and pine tree. The items that are made from softwood are more prone to scratches and marks that will ultimately give them a shabby look after some time.
No matter which wood is used to make your furniture items like dining room chairs and tables, wood is the most durable material than any other material out on the market.
Maintenance:
Now let’s move toward the maintenance of your furniture items. The furniture items made up of solid and hardwood are easy to maintain and handle. Hardwood is easy to maintain and doesn’t carry the mark of age. On the other hand, furniture items made up of softwood are also easy to maintain. But they get scratches and marks with the passage of time and can be aged with time. But after going through the process of polishing they will shine like new ones.
Cleaning wood is easy because you can clean any sticky and messy material from your dining room chairs and tables with a microfiber cloth. If you deal with your wooden-made furniture well then you don’t need to do anything other than an occasional dusting. They don’t get rusty like iron or high carbon content steel-made furniture items.
Wood can be a greener choice:
Wood is environmentally friendly and it is one of the most environmentally friendly raw materials on the planet Earth. They are totally renewable and replenishable because they are made from the components of nature like the Sun, carbon, air, and mud.
Furthermore, wood is completely biodegradable unlike many other synthetic and man-made materials that are used to make furniture items. The waste that comes out from a wooden furniture manufacturing plant will ultimately decompose and become part of the earth again.
Overall, timber, walnut, and white oak are some of the lowest carbon footprint materials that can be used to make furniture items that can be passed through generations.
Cost-effectiveness:
You may be wondering why we are saying wood-made furniture is cost-effective. Wood-made furniture can cost you a few bucks more than the furniture made from other materials if you look from a bigger perspective. Wood-made furniture is no doubt a bit more expensive than other types of furniture.
But you only have to pay the upfront cost once in your life. It’s a kind of investment because wood-made furniture lasts very long. And, at some point, if you think about buying a new house with new furniture items then you can sell them at a good price unlike furniture made from cheap materials.
On the other hand, if you get trapped and buy low-quality furniture then after some point you need to buy it again and again. This money-waste cycle could cost you more than the one-time upfront cost for wood-made furniture. Not only does it imbalance your budget but also costs you your time and energy.
