How to choose solid wood furniture to avoid stepping into the pit for newbies? Solid wood furniture buying strategy to see this is enough!

 How can I buy solid wood furniture to avoid stepping into a pit? Different manufacturers say they are solid wood furniture, why is there such a big difference in price? There are many kinds of solid wood, which one should I choose? What brands of solid wood furniture are recommended? Is all solid wood furniture environmentally friendly?

Do you have these questions?

Hi everyone, I'm newsendy. First of all, I declare that I am not a professional industry insiders, only one experience, research solid wood furniture purchase, a little experience of ordinary consumers. Looking back, deeply solid wood furniture industry, the depth of the water, so I summarized my experience down, using more vernacular language to describe it, if you look at the text difficulties, you can directly look at the image, more simple and clear. If you are a beginner, feel a little with welcome to praise + collection of this article! Professional more serious people do not bother! 

After reading this article you will gain:

1. the advantages of buying solid wood furniture
2. What are the categories of solid wood furniture and how to choose the type I want
3. How to choose solid wood quality
4. How to choose solid wood furniture design style
5. How to choose solid wood furniture brand
6. Solid wood furniture are very eco-friendly?

• 1.The advantages of buying solid wood furniture

All to return to the beginning, think about why you want to buy solid wood furniture. The biggest advantage of buying solid wood furniture is that it can create a closer to nature, cozy home lifestyle, better sense of light, with the real sense of touch, more real grain...

In addition, solid wood furniture in the environmental protection, quality level also has very obvious advantages.

There are advantages and disadvantages! The disadvantages of buying solid wood furniture are also very obvious, in addition to the expensive price, you have to face a lot of solid wood furniture maintenance and maintenance level work, otherwise, over time, bending and deformation, cracking, moths and other problems may come to your door.

• 2.What are the categories of solid wood furniture, how to choose the type I want?

Solid wood furniture industry water is deeper, a variety of terms flying all over the place, manufacturers are said to be pure solid wood furniture, but clearly say that it is not like the same class of Dosher, the internal quality is also very different.

The following is my organization of solid wood furniture of the basic classification chart (some may be called different, but the basic logical relationship is consistent):

Log Plywood Furniture: is the purest form of solid wood furniture, with large, wide planks of one solid wood species glued together.

Mixed wood panel furniture: The main part of the main part is a solid wood of large wide boards spliced together, but some secondary places have been replaced with low-value solid wood accessories, such as back panels, drawer panels and so on.

Dentition board splicing furniture: this is a selection of smaller-sized boards more finely spliced, lower cost, and can have a smaller design, but the overall appearance of the pattern is very messy.

Frame solid wood furniture: as the name suggests, is the main frame with solid wood, auxiliary material place is artificial board (non-solid wood).

The first three can be called pure solid wood furniture, and the third frame solid wood furniture, at the legal level, can also be called solid wood furniture, which still needs to be recognized by consumers.

In these four types of solid wood furniture on top of the main type, but also need to understand two very important concepts - veneer and laminated.

Veneer is in the original solid wood outer layer with a better solid wood pattern for veneer, if the process is good, look directly at the surface is difficult to see, from the degree of aesthetics, there is progress, and at a lower cost, better stability, but some dealers will not be very clear to tell consumers about these details, the whole process of purchasing a lack of transparency.

The sandwich approach is more extreme, for example, three-layer board, outside the two layers of relatively thin solid wood sandwich (not veneer), the center is another low-cost solid wood, so that the combination together, at first glance, very much like a very heavy logs, If the manufacturer lacks transparency, so the solid wood can be called "pure solid wood", "wood splicing", "no veneer", "non-toothed board splicing", seems to promise very much in place, some consumers who are not clear will be mistaken for this is the original wood splicing furniture.

In short, veneer and laminated are very good craftsmanship, only still hope that manufacturers can be more transparent, so that consumers buy clear. Consumers can also buy, based on the above logic to the manufacturer to take the initiative to understand and make a commitment to the contract. 

• 3.How to choose solid wood

Common solid wood furniture material is very much, mahogany, black walnut, cherry, white oak, red oak, ash, ash, ash, elm, birch, pine, beech, and so on. For ordinary consumers, special details and professional things, do not need to understand so clearly. Everyone can understand the following comparison table:

• 4.How to choose the design style of solid wood furniture

According to my understanding, the mainstream design system has the following kinds:

① Scandinavian minimalist style

Scandinavian minimalist style of solid wood furniture, emphasizing simplicity, natural design style; color like solid color (white or beige-based) or original wood color, then embellished with some dark solid color. Give people a clean, bright, natural, warm feeling.

② Japanese furniture

Japanese solid wood furniture prefers to use the original wood color, and then embellished with some white or gray; floor color is generally light; and then with multi-level lighting effects; the overall create a warm, natural feeling.

③ Italian minimalist style

Italian minimalism takes simplicity to the extreme, with simple but delicate geometric lines or large geometric color blocks, with simple solid colors (white, beige, brown, gray, black), combining linear beauty and extreme simplicity. Wall design is combined with spatial design, emphasizing the role of soft furnishings.

④ New Chinese style

Traditional Chinese style is too classical and heavy, and is not generally accepted by young people. The new Chinese style, on the basis of retaining the elegant style of Chinese style, has incorporated a clear modern style. Materials and techniques are also applied modern technology.

⑤ American style

American style solid wood furniture is a blend of European classical style charm, eliminating too extravagant part, adding more practical functions.
In fact, there are many niche design styles, we do not have to be too serious. For young people, to maintain the unity of the basic style, and then embellished with a little special color or line. Sufficient!

• 5.How to choose the brand of solid wood furniture

Choosing a solid wood furniture brand can be considered from the following four dimensions: design, quality craftsmanship, service, cost-effectiveness. Combined with the performance of these four dimensions, solid wood furniture brands can be roughly divided into four categories: international brands, domestic traditional brands, domestic network brands, domestic emerging offline brands, independent designer brands.

International brands: whether it is a sense of design, or quality, craftsmanship, are the industry benchmark, just much higher prices.

Domestic traditional brands: there is very good quality, as well as excellent service, but not much sense of design, the price is also expensive.

Domestic emerging offline brand: this is a new category of domestic original design brands, emphasizing the power of design, there is a very strong design capabilities, the quality of workmanship and service is not inferior, the price is also high, the overall positioning is higher than the traditional domestic brands, but also the closest to the positioning of international brands.

Domestic network brand: this type of solid wood furniture brand relying on the factory point, the price of the whole industry to a very low, there is a very high cost-effectiveness.

Independent designer brands: some independent designers, relying on their own excellent design work, looking for factories OEM, and gradually developed solid wood furniture brand, therefore, in the design level is naturally very good, good factories and design details can also ensure the quality of excellent, the price also has a high cost-effective.

• 6.Solid wood furniture is very environmentally friendly?

Many people have always had a misunderstanding - that solid wood furniture does not release pollutants. In fact, solid wood furniture itself solid wood is not much pollutants, but solid wood furniture in the surface treatment, will use a variety of paint, or will release formaldehyde, benzene compounds and other harmful substances.

However, there is no need to worry, solid wood furniture is definitely so much better than panelized furniture. We just need to understand the following pollution degree ranking, basically can also avoid pit la.

Pollution degree ranking from high to low:

PU paint > Nitrocellulose paint / NC paint > UV paint > Water-based paint > Wood wax oil (mostly natural)

Therefore, we try to choose the surface treatment with wood wax oil or water-based paint solid wood furniture, you can minimize the pollutants.

In addition, as mentioned above, solid wood furniture is divided into different types and grades, and some types of solid wood furniture will involve such processing techniques as patching, paneling, sandwiching, etc., which will inevitably involve the use of glue, which will produce some harmful substances. Therefore, we have to consider when choosing the type of solid wood furniture.

Overall, to buy solid wood furniture, or to do enough homework, for new users, in accordance with my method above, you can certainly succeed in avoiding the pit, buy the desired solid wood furniture.

If you have any questions you want to discuss, welcome to leave a message in the comment section.