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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
What is contemporary furniture you may well ask? The way this can be answered is that the emphasis is on concept and design ideas that can be made into full size furniture. Contemporary furniture designers have to be able to create new and original designs and techniques to produce a stunning piece of furniture that the buyers of big furniture chains will want to showcase on their shopfloors. Once this step is made hopefully the public will be seduced into buying the furniture.
Contemporary furniture can be put into various rooms in the home.
Living room – there are many pieces that can fit into this space. Examples of what objects and their materials used are
Sofas – ergonomic in design, architectual style and usually only the best leathers and fabrics used.
Bookcases and shelves - these can be found in many forms and designs. Materials vary from metal, glass and solid wood.
Sidetables – again a piece of furniture that takes many forms and colours. Frameworks are created and then sprayed to a high gloss finish in many colours.
Bedroom furniture
Beds – leather is a prominent feature with contemporary bed design. Designers use metalwork cromed structures and then add leather to the surrounds. Metal can be designed to make many shapes for the headboard. This is a contemporary take on the classic original metal bed. Contemporary wooden beds generally come in simple designs and forms but are made in the very highest quality woods such as oak, cherry, black walnut and maple.
Bedside cabinets – these vary greatly. They can be round, square or rectangular. Materials such as wood, leather, glass, mirrored can be used. Bedroom cabinets can also be made in matching materials.
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Bedroom furniture sets have been bourne out of the need people have to match all of their bedroom furniture. There can be a number of reasons for this:
1. All of the furniture will match.
2. One delivery – Minimum disruption to the household and customers having to take time off work to accept delivery.
3. Customers can haggle on price.
4. Takes away the worry that the company might discontinue that bedroom furniture range that you might have been collecting over months or years.
5. Worst case of all , the supplier / manufacturer going out of business in these troubled high street times.
Companies and manufacturers offer various types of bedroom furniture sets
1. Bed with two bedside cabinets.
2. Bed with two bedside cabinets and a chest of drawers.
3. Bed with two bedside cabinets , chest of drawers and a free standing wardrobe.
However most shops will work around the customers needs for a room set as everyone’s needs vary so much.
Taste’s can be influenced by what is on display at any one time in the shop. Customer’s come in with a vision of what they have seen on a television programme or in a magazine and can be deviated by another display in a totally different wood type plus a higher price point. At AKKA Bedroom Furniture we have seen this many times. We have a design of Shaker bedroom furniture that we manufacture in both american white oak and american black walnut. Customers come into the showroom looking for oak but their eye is often drawn to the walnut.
Walnut has a real elegance , with it’s rich dark grain. Why not book an appointment and come and view our walnut furniture for yourself, were sure that you won’t be disappointed.
We can also show you bedroom furniture roomsets in oak and our totally new range called Toulouse whichis our take on the the Louis Phillipe style of furniture.
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Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Oak furniture, which is very popular in the british home is generally made from either European oak or American white oak.
European oak is found in Slovenia, France, Yugoslavia and many countries from the Baltic region. American white oak is found in the east of the USA and South Eastern Canada.
Britain as a nation have fallen in love with oak furniture, and many furnish several rooms in this wood, including dining rooms, living rooms and bedrooms.
Manufacturers usually use two main finishes on oak furniture, either an oil finish such as danish oil or lacquers which show the true wood. There are trends towards staining oak with a light white painted finish that allows the strong grain to show through. The same can be said of staining oak with a dark walnut stain, which will replicate American black walnut. This method reduces cost as this wood in its natural finish is very expensive. At AKKA furniture we only use solid American black walnut but are able to offer our products at very competitive prices.
A word of caution when buying painted furniture is to ask what type of wood is being used. Generally the wood used is hemlock or birch. These trees are then cut down before they have fully matured, thus meaning several small pieces of wood are glued together resulting in a wider piece of timber. The manufacturer then applies a base undercoat and then a top finishing coat. If a piece of furniture is only treated with oil, you can see the true quality and beauty of the wood.
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
You have finally found the vision on how you want your bedroom to look after researching the internet for months. Now down to the hard work of stripping the walls, filling in the imperfections and finally painting or wallpapering.
Have you done enough research about the quality of your bedroom furniture? No, then let me lend a hand.
Oak or walnut wooden beds
Try to buy a bed that is solid wood. Key factors to look for are no small finger pointed laminations on the siderails, head and tail rails. Look for signs of white sapwood showing towards the outside of the bed. Whilst this is not crucial to the construction, it shows that the manufacturer has taken time to put the sap face to the inside of the bed with the pure oak tones showing.
Oak and walnut wooden chests
The main construction of the chests should feature solid wooden legs all round. The top should be solid wood also with no man made products. The drawers should be dovetailed all round and solid in construction and strength. Are the drawer fronts made out of one piece of wood? Many manufacturers joint their drawer fronts whereas quality manufacturers use one piece of timber. The backs of the drawer should be grooved into the back legs and no screws, nails or pins used to hold the back panel in place.
Oak and walnut wooden wardrobes
Wooden legs should be used in all wardrobes, the back panels again should be grooved into the back legs. The veneered back panel should be veneered both internally and externally. Whilst this is not compulsary, it shows the manufacturer puts high emphasis on a consistent finish. Internally, the hanging rail should not be of cheap metal, it is far better to have a solid turned rail and brackets. If the wardrobe has drawers, again the drawers should be dovetailed and made of one piece of solid wood.
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
You bought your house a few years ago now and you have gradually decorated room by room, finally reaching your bedroom. This room need to feel tranquil and releaxed, so getting the mood right is important.
An important point to remember is you shouldn’t try to cram too much furniture into your bedroom space as this will ruin the look and feel. The immediate concern will be the bed, followed by storage needs. In a double bedroom a bedside cabinet either side of the bed is a good idea, particularly if you like to read at night as bedside lamps can be placed on them. A chest of drawers is a must along with wardrobes. The furniture can then be added to create the individual mood with bedding, curtains, pictures and accessories, thus adding style and personality.
Beds are available in two common types, divans or bedsteads. At AKKA Bedroom Furniture we specialise in solid wooden bedsteads in both American White Oak and American Black Walnut. Sizes of beds vary depending on your room size. The key is to ensure you have enough room to walk round your bed comfortably and that you have enough space to open wardrobe doors and and cabinet drawers.
Our wooden chests are variable in size both in width and height. One tip is to maximise the height for the amount of floor space available. Wardrobes can be free standing or built in. Free standing wardrobes may be able to fit into an alcove or small space but it is important to double check dimensions.
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
A bed room is the peaceful area of your dwelling to have your privacy and be totally relaxed. Everyone loves to sleep in a lovely and cozy bed room, just like they want to have quality in any other rooms in your home. Picking the correct furniture to go in the rooms should be critical. Developing a fine bed room gives a type of security and multiplies your comfort. When you are married then you will have better times together if you could have a comfortable double or king size bed and beautiful home furniture such as dressing tables, bed side tables, cabinets, chests and wardrobes. Bedroom furniture can come in numerous styles of designs. Here i will discuss various good tips on how to choose the most suitable bedroom furniture which will offer you the lovely sleeping experience.
1. Must haves and Desires. Get to know the things you would like and what you might need from the bedroom. It is really better if you talk about it with your husband or wife to get good designs ideas. You have to prioritize on things that you need as opposed to want, when you cater for your needs then is the time to start to think about what which you may desire.
2. Styles and Concepts. Study your bedroom’s structure and dimension and envisage what kind of pieces of furniture would suit it. Why not use our free planner that can be found on the homepage?
3. Decide on Appropriate bedroom furniture. Whenever you’re getting your furniture ensure that it’s hard-wearing, of high quality, and well engineered. You don’t want to waste your cash on poor quality pieces of furniture that can only survive for some months before it falls apart. AKKA furniture only produces timeless bedroom furniture in oak and walnut that will stand the test of time.
4. Deciding on your right website. There are numerous shops and warehouses that retail pieces of furniture but you will need to select the best one. Use the world-wide-web and locate one that supplies the types of furnishings you desire but after that be certain that they have got good credibility and good buyer satisfaction. Why not come down and visit our showroom in Colchester?
5. Enjoy your good quality bedroom furniture. The bedroom is required to be your sanctuary, finish it off with quality furnishings and insure that it is an area you may love sleeping in.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Looking back the other day through old photographs (when I say old, I mean 1980s old) I noticed just how much home furniture has changed. I’ll be honest with you, my parents still have the wood effect units and melamine wardrobes but most other folk have moved on. The thing I noticed most was the difference in the beds. Every bed in the house was a divan and boy, were they ugly! To make it even worse, they dressed them up in slightly uglier flouncy valances, which seem to defy all laws of taste and interior design decency. Just what were we doing? Instead of a beautiful wooden bed, something which could have defined a room or provided a focal point, we have essentially a wooden box wrapped in fabric. Nothing could more clearly say, ‘this room is not important to me’ more than a divan bed. It seems that bedrooms were just functional; get in, lights off, sleep, wake-up, get dressed, get out! Nowadays bedrooms are where we can wind down, chill-out or lose a Sunday morning. Who would want to do that in a divan when you could be looking at a lovely piece of oiled walnut? I say it’s time for a divan amnesty…without fear of reprise or being mocked by the neighbours we should all be allowed to clear out these sleeping disaster zones once and for all and replace them with something wooden and beautiful!! Come on, chuck ‘em out!!
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