COOL WOODEN CRAFT part 1

THE SENSE....

As a human being, we are graced with 5 senses - hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch. Ignoring them is like we're missing a chance to be in tune with our whole being, emotional, intellectual and sensual. 

 So "Home sweet home" is a home that not only sweet to look at, listen to, touch and smell. This home is more to a place that touch our emotional heartland. Home is a place where the rhythm of event is under our control - a potential pleasure zone for sensual being.

COOL WOODEN SHELVES, part 1

WOODS, why?

The oldest and most commonly material is used for today furniture is for wood. Almost all types of furniture can be made from wood. Excess wood is a good texture and easy to set up even wood can be carved to get the maximum results. Also the finishing itself is very diverse, depend on what we want to focused.

Almost any type of wood could be used to build furniture, but some woods have always been favored for their beauty, durability, and workability. Being able to identify the type of wood used for your furniture can help you determine its real value. Wood identification can sometimes be the deciding factor when you aren't sure if a piece is worth refinishing or if it should be thrown away. There's a good chance that a beat-up old dresser, for instance, was built with what today is considered a rare wood. In this article, we'll show you how to examine a piece of furniture and what details or identifying marks to look for to easily identify the type of wood used to create it. It will be helpful to know the basic characteristics in all woods, such as hardness, grains, and color.

Wood Characteristics

Hardness

The simplest way to describe a wood is to say it's a hardwood or a softwood. not all hardwoods are hard, and not all softwoods are soft. The hard/soft classification is a botanical one -- hardwoods are flowering trees; softwoods are conifers. In general, hardwoods are more valuable than softwoods, because the wood is scarcer.

Wood grain and color

Furniture woods are chosen and valued for the character of their grain and color. Hardwoods usually have a richer and finer-textured grain than softwoods, but there are rich grains of all colors and patterns. Woods with very distinctive patterns are usually more valuable than woods with subdued or indistinct patterns, and the weaker-grained woods are often stained to give them character. This is why the old finish must be completely removed before you can tell for sure what wood a piece of furniture is made of.

Veneers and Inlays

Because rare woods are scarce, and because they've always been more expensive than other woods, many types of furniture, both new and old, are made with veneer, a thin layer of wood glued to a base of less expensive wood or plywood. In old furniture, veneers and inlays of rare woods were often used to form designs or special effects; highly figured burl woods and other exotic woods were especially prized. In modern furniture, veneers are used primarily where solid wood is unavailable or too expensive.

Wood combinations

Another consideration is that many types of modern furniture are made with two or more kinds of wood, to keep the cost down. Rare woods are used where appearance is important, such as table-tops; the more common woods are used for less conspicuous structural pieces, such as table and chair legs. This multiple-wood construction isn't always easy to see until the old finish is removed -- a table you think is walnut, for example, may turn out to have gum legs, stained to match.

Hardwoods are preferred to use as furniture because of its strength and more powerful, durable and long lasting. Hardwood has the color and wood fiber that is unique and varied that it becomes an alternative choice for the designer furniture. Types of hardwoods used for furniture construction are walnut, oak, mahogany, teak, maple, and cherry. While oak and maple hardwoods are considered somewhat informal, mahogany, teak, cherry and walnut are used in more traditional or formal interiors.

Welcoming.........

Welcome to the "Taste of Indulgent"  we take great care in assisting  you to find the furniture and accessories that truly describes your 'soul' and taste. Making your place really like home, because each and every single things that fills you room was  made and chosen by great sense of taste and heart.