Tough times ahead for Furniture Retailers
Furniture retailers are competing hard at the moment to offer the best deals on pine furniture, but a side effect is that the quality of some furniture has been dramatically reduced simply to make a sale. This is bad news for timber suppliers, bad news for the environment and, surprisingly, bad news for customers.
Lower prices mean timber suppliers will cut corners to stay in business and care of the environment suffers because resources are not available. Prices that are unsustainably low are, bizarrely, bad news for customers because poor quality furniture will not look as good, will not last as long and will have to be replaced.
So how is it possible to tell if the pine furniture on offer is good quality? This is difficult for someone with little specialist knowledge and is even harder if the furniture is offered for sale via the internet and is being assessed from a distance.
Good pine furniture will use dovetail joints in drawer construction and the better quality ranges, such as those from Devonshire Pine Ltd, also tend to use wooden panelling for drawer bases and the backs of cabinets. If a range is described as distressed, check to see if the manufacturer also produces standard ranges, because this indicates if they can achieve good standards or simply use ‘distressing’ to hide poor finishing.
Ask the retailer to show you these points or, if viewing online, see if these features are shown in photographs or described in the text. Be wary of online retailers that do not offer much information about their ranges.
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