Quality Furniture

If you're shopping for bedroom or dining room furniture, you're probably wondering what features you should be looking for to determine what the quality is. We can help you figure some of that out. When we talk about drawer construction, you want to look for some specific t We A dovetail is a notched connection between the two panels. It is a very secure and reliable attachment, and where it's a drawer you're pulling open and closed every day, it gives you great longevity to the piece. Other options are drawer panels that are put together with glue or nails at the joints. These are not going to be durable. There are a variety of wood and metal drawer guides in the market. Some wood drawer guides were, in the past, the standard. We have a lot of options with metals now, including systems that use ball bearings. What you want to look for is a metal guide that is not flimsy in any way. It should have some weight and structure to it. On some designs, particularly contemporary designs, under mount drawer guides are a great drawer guide because they don'take extra space on the sides. You can have a more compact design. They typically use a ball bearing system, and they are very well constructed and durable. For case pieces in general, if not all solid wood, at least the frame should be solid wood. If you're looking at a veneer, what is the substrate? If it's MDF, poplar, plywood, or hardwood, these are good. If it's c If you want to learn more about materials, click on t When you're looking at dining chairs, there are some key features that will add to the longevity of your dining chair. The rear legs and the back of the chair should be made up of one piece of l More than that, and the chair is not as strong and will deteriorate over time. So look under the seat. It should be corner blocked, and those corner blocks should be screwed and glued into the four corners of your chair seat. If your chair doesn't have any corner blocks, it has an attachment in the sides that will wear out long before a corner blocked chair would. Adding t A word about why dining chairs are so expensive. A dining chair can have up to 35 individual pieces and components in its construction. Compare that to a dining table, when we're looking at extension tables, there are a lot of different extension types and mechanisms. There are butterfly extensions, w There are also geared guides for the extension table, or slide guides, wood on wood slide guides, depending what you want to avoid in an extension table or what's lesser quality are some of the all metal systems that have a lot of drag to them when you go to open the table. Extension tables using a gear or ball bearing system are the easiest to open and usually can be operated by one person. Wood on wood slides, frequently you need two people, they're a little harder to open. If you'd