Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Including Nature into Your Home by Adding Recycled Furniture


Most people when they hear about recycled furniture they sometimes hesitate, the fact that they are going to decorate that in their home.  There are even some people who think that if they will be using woods from their old barn and recycled pallets their house may end up looking like a warehouse.

However if you try to make a closer look or try searching the internet for different designs you will be surprised with the different designs of furniture that was made from a reclaimed lumber and alike.  This doesn’t only give a beautiful attraction into your home but you will be able to our environment.

The real deal with is recycled furniture are made of a good quality of recycled materials like reclaimed lumber.  What companies do is they will be taking the best part of the material and convert it into a good piece of furniture. 

This furniture does come in different shapes, designs and sizes then once it is already done it will be just like brand new furniture and it is definitely of good quality.  However, there are some people who think that having this type of furniture are of low quality, but it is definitely not true. 

Each of this type of furniture does come in different character which cannot be duplicated by any company.  I guess the reason for this is, it is hard to find same kind of good quality of recycled material.  However, there are still sometimes that materials are from traditional style or what we can see most often but there are also some pieces of material which are unique. 

The use of recycled woods does come in abundant resources.  With all the effort of harvesting all materials needed for the reinvention.  This may either be found from the following:

·         Old homes that will be under deconstruction
·         Demolition sites that has waste and scrap
·         Ola barns that are already condemned or planned to be torn down
·         Check out those rivers that sometimes does carry old growth logs that may be from the 1700s

Most of the woods that are being reclaimed are the following:
·         American Chestnut
·         White Oak
·         Heart Pine
·       Red Oak


It has been stated that the oldest wood that was be harvested was already 300 years old, which can be found in virgin forests.  There are times that most of these hardwood logs are found into waterways and they are now being used for flooring or custom furniture. 

Even though there are some imperfections of the wood such as cracks, nail holes and worm holes, people still do keep them intentionally as this will capture that fact that it is antique.

You will never go wrong when you decide to have one in your home.  It does add nature and beauty to your home.  All you need to do is just be keen when you are looking for designs, since it just takes a lot of effort for you to get the best one.