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These are getting quite expensive for home furniture. Solid wood, that is. For centuries, there has never really been any alternative to using solid wood for home furnishings. The furniture antiques have made use of solid wood. These days, forest conservation and cost cutting techniques have given way to plywood and particle board wood equivalents for crafting home furniture. They are strong alright. But boy are they ugly. So ugly that they need a second process of coating a thin sheet of wood veneer to show some wood grain that is one very distinct attribute of wood as a valued construction material for furniture. Unfortunately, even the cheap wood veneer laminates have been substituted with synthetic ones. Nothing really comes close to match solid wood grain in furniture. Teak, Cedar, Birch, Mahogany, Cedar and Elm, just to mention some, in various finishes and color variation, figure in the most common selection of finely crafted furniture. From large major home furniture like beds and tables to the least piece like a magazine rack, if nothing but the finest solid wood is used, you can be sure the furniture will not only be beautiful, can and last a lifetime or more. Check out those antique beds, chairs and tables. It takes some dedicated expertise and technical know-how to fashion furniture out of wood. Good thing the science and the artistry behind it have never been lost even with the deluge of synthetic wood looking materials. From chairs to beds, bookshelves to tables, dressers to kitchen cabinets, you name it. There are great furniture makers who still use the hand in making them. Of course these days, majority of wood craftsmen use machines to aid and speed-up the task. But no machine can replace the eyes of artists. That’s where the final touches come in. And some builders can even customize them to your distinct taste and preference to suit every room deco you want. | 
