5 Main Reasons to Prefer Wooden Furniture and It’s Maintenance

 

Wood Products:

Neem Wood:

The neem tree, also known as the Indian lilac or margosa tree has the scientific name Azadirachta indica and belongs to the botanical family Meliaceae. ... The attractive color of this wood products gives neem wood furniture an aesthetically pleasing appearance. The wood, durable and resistant to insect attacks, has been used for everything from furniture to boat oars, from agricultural implements to drums and carved images. Like its relative mahogany, it takes on a good polish.

Pine Wood:

Pinewood is widely used in high-value carpentry items such as furniture, window frames, paneling, floors, and roofing, and the resin of some species is an important source of turpentine. Pines are long-lived and typically reach ages of 100–1,000 years, some even more. The longest-lived is the Great Basin bristlecone pine, Pinus long eval. One individual of these pinewood products, dubbed "Methuselah", is one of the world's oldest living organisms at around 4,600 years old. This tree can be found in the White Mountains of California.

Teak Wood:

Teak wood's high oil content, high tensile strength and tight grain make it particularly suitable where weather resistance is desired. These wood products are used in the manufacture of outdoor furniture and boat decks. It is also used for cutting boards, indoor flooring, countertops and as a veneer for indoor finishing. Although easily worked, it can cause severe blunting on edged tools because of the presence of silica in the wood. Over time teak can weather to a silvery-grey finish, especially when exposed to sunlight. Teak wood is used extensively in India to make doors and window frames, furniture, and columns and beams in old type houses. It is resistant to termite attacks and damage caused by other insects. Mature teak fetches a very good price. It is grown extensively by forest departments of different states in forest areas.

Sycamore:

Sycamore woods are classified as a moderate hardness hardwood, it rarely found in the production of hardwood flooring. When sycamore logs are quarter sawn, they are also an excellent choice for high-quality veneers and paneling due to its high degree of fleck. Contemporary uses for American sycamore includes lumber and veneer, paneling, interior trim, furniture parts, slack cooperate, and fuel. These wood products are hard and almost impossible to split, so it has been used for butcher blocks for many years.

American Cherry:

Natural cherry wood is perhaps the most prized furniture hardwood in America. Easily our most popular seller, cherry is a smooth-grained, reddish-brown hardwood that comes from the American Black Cherry fruit tree. Common Uses: Cabinetry, fine furniture, flooring, interior millwork, veneer, turned objects, and small specialty wood items. Comments: This wood products develop a rich reddish-brown patina as it ages that's frequently imitated with wood stains on other hardwoods such as Yellow Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera).

Cedar Wood:

Cedarwood and cedar oil are natural moth repellents, which is why cedar is commonly used for creating modern-day hope chests and closets that contain woolen clothes. ... Because of this, it is used as wood shingles, which are tapered pieces of wood that clad roofs and walls to protect them from harsh weather. One popular use for these wood products (cedarwood) is in clothing storage furnishings, such as wardrobes, chests, and trunks. Part of the reason cedar is aromatic is because it bears thujaplicin, a natural antibacterial, and antifungal agent. Some types of cedar, such as true cedar and Spanish cedar, also have insect-repellent qualities.

Sal Wood:

Sal woods are durable, termite- and fungi-resistant. These wood products should not be kept in the glare of direct sunlight as it will form cracks. Why sal wood is ideal for furniture: Sal wood is highly durable and very strong, for which reason it is ideal for making window sills, doors, frames, and beams. Its sapwood is white in color, not as durable as the wood but thick. Its wood pores are full of resin. Uses: The sal tree is used for a variety of purposes, such as: Medicinal uses: Sal resin is used as an astringent to relieve diarrhoea and dysentery.

Merbau:

The tree's timber, called merbau or kwila, is a very durable and termite-resistant wood, making it a highly valued material for flooring and other uses. These wood products can also be used to extract a dye. Merbau can contain a "gold" fleck that runs through the grain, considered to be attractive by some. Merbau wood is mainly used for flooring, furniture, paneling, fine joinery, decorative turnery, cabinetmaking, musical instruments, and specialty items.

Meranti:

Colored gray or yellow, blending to reddish depending on where it's harvested, meranti ages to a golden brown with continued exposure to light. Meranti is a hardwood products. On the Janka scale -- a scale that ranks wood for hardness -- meranti varieties rank between 800 and 825. In lumber form, meranti wood works into light structural framing, moldings and trim, and low-cost furniture. Meranti has little durability in outdoor projects.

Beech Wood:

Beech is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. Recent classification systems of the genus recognize 10 to 13 species in two distinct subgenera, Engleriana and Fagus. The beech has been used for its wood by man for thousands of years. The wood is white, or reddish if grown on acid soil, but fine-grained, smooth, and heavy when first cut. It may split as it dries. These are good wood products for making ornaments, tool handles, kitchen utensils, furniture, and parts of buildings.

Rubber Wood:

Rubberwood is a light-colored medium-density tropical hardwood obtained from the Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), usually from trees grown in rubber plantations. Rubberwood is commonly advertised as an "environmentally friendly" wood products, as it makes use of plantation trees that have already served a useful function. Rubberwood is not rubbery. It is about the same density as ash or maple but is easier to work with. The lumber has a dense, coarse grain which makes it unsuitable for use in “fine furniture,” but it is strong and cheap which makes it ideal for lower priced imported products.

Mahogany:

Mahogany wood is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the Americas and part of the pantropical chinaberry family, Meliaceae. Mahogany is a commercially important lumber prized for its beauty, durability, and color, and used for paneling and to make furniture, boats, musical instruments and other items.

Oak Wood:

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 600 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus, as well as in those of unrelated species such as Grevillea robusta and the Casuarinaceae. Oak wood has been used as a hardwood timber for thousands of years, yet it takes up to 150 years before the wood products from an oak tree can be used for construction. Modern uses for oak wood include homewares, flooring, wine barrels and firewood.

Wenge:

Wenge, a dark colored wood, is the product of Millettia laurentii. Other names sometimes used for wenge include African rosewood (ambiguous), faux ebony, dikela, mibotu, bokonge, and awong. The wood product's distinctive color is standardised as a "wenge" color in many systems. Uses for wenge include interior and exterior joinery plus general construction work. Wenge is a good wood for turnery. It is also prized for wood sculpting because it cuts easily and has a beautiful grain and interesting color that adds to the artistic image.

Walnut:

Walnut trees are any species of tree in the plant genus Juglans, the type genus of the family Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are referred to as walnuts. In addition, walnut wood can be used for flooring, solid wood products or veneer for musical instruments and furniture, and interior decoration. Black Walnut is typically used for turned items, furniture, interior panelling, and cabinetry. English Walnut can also be used for furniture, small wooden objects, and veneer.

Sapele:

Entandrophragma cylindricum is a tree of the genus Entandrophragma of the family Meliaceae. It is commonly known as sapele or sapelli or sapele mahogany, as well as aboudikro, assi, and muyovu. Common Uses: Veneer, plywood, furniture, cabinetry, flooring, boatbuilding, musical instruments, turned objects, and other small wooden specialty items. Comments: These wood products are commonly exported and economically important African wood species.

Balsa:

Ochroma is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae, containing the sole species Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as the balsa tree. It is a large, fast-growing tree that can grow up to 30 m tall. Balsa wood is a very lightweight material with many uses. Balsa, because it is so light weight is used to make surfboards. Model Building. Father and son playing with a balsa wood model plane. Aircraft and Boat Industries. Fishing floats are balsa wood products. Table Tennis Bat Construction.

Maple:

Maple wood is commonly used in high-end furniture, flooring, cabinetry, and kitchen accessories. Because of its durability and strength, maple wood products can be found used as flooring in bowling alleys and for bowling pins.

Alder:

For workability, availability, and finishing, Alder wood is a very versatile and predictable material. It can be used alone or together with other species. Alder is a close or fine grained wood similar to cherry, birch and maple. It is used in both solid wood and veneer applications. We often refer alder as the “poor man's cherry” because of its beauty and affordable value. Alder wood products' appearance and high quality make it a popular choice for furniture and cabinets. Red alder grown in the Pacific Northwest is medium in density and is the preferred specie used to build furniture.

Matti:

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