Custom Hardwood Furniture

Wood has long been the material of choice for quality custom hardwood furniture custom hardwood furniture for many good reasons. Wood is available in various different natural colors. Each species of tree has a distinctive grain or pattern in the wood. Trees come in different levels of hardness. Most importantly, wood can be cut and shaped into a large variety of attractive designs.

Since wood is an organic product, it is shock-resistant which means that it can suffer a hard blow without cracking or breaking custom hardwood furniture is extremely durable and generally will outlast synthetic materials. An added benefit is that, unlike synthetic materials, scratches and nicks are easy to touch up.

Custom furniture makers can be found all over the world. Most of the time they are relatively small companies that employ skilled craftsman to produce the custom made furniture. custom hardwood furniture may or may be truly unique if unique id used to mean a one-of-a-kind design. But no two pieces of custom-built furniture will be exactly alike. Since most of the work is done by hand or using machines operated by human beings, the mathematical precision and sameness that ready-made mass-produced furniture has can not be achieved. Not that you would actually want them to do that.

The craftsmen produce the furniture from either blueprints or detailed design patterns. If it is a truly unique design, they may even have to build jigs to hold the pieces while the glues dries and any other tools needed to assemble the custom hardwood furniture.

They will use a variety of hardwood depending on both what the customer wants and/or what wood is most suitable for the job if the customer has no specific preference about what wood to use. Quality custom hardwood furniture will use mortise and tenon joinery rather than screws and bolts. Properly done by a skilled craftsman, these glued joints will outlast screwed and bolted joints by decades.

The end result of having custom hardwood furniture built is that you will have a beautiful piece of furniture that you can enjoy for many years. Since the furniture lasts so long, you will probably pass it down to your children and grandchildren. So, you are not just getting a piece of furniture but a family heirloom to be treasured for generation to come.