AKKA bedroom furniture is designed to make your bedroom work for you to aid relaxation.   Whether you chose a Milan Oak bed or a Prague Walnut bed we offer the combination of style and comfort that will ensure you are truly happy to be in your bedroom. For extra well being, Dreamworks, our mattress suppliers, pay the same attention to detail as we do to guarantee the best quality. They have a vast array of products ranging from cage sprung, pocket sprung and Memory foam mattresses to ensure you get the best sleep.

Of course a comforting bedroom is not just about the bed but the rest of the bedroom furniture that you choose also has a very important role to play.  AKKA Furniture has personality with classic looks and character to compliment your own style.   Do you yearn for a bedroom, which embraces French flair? Then take a look at AKKA’s new Toulouse range. Crafted in warm oak it provides Louis Phillipe style and practical storage including a stunning oak wardrobe, 2 and 6 drawer chests, bedside and dressing tables.  

It might be that you spend less time in your bedroom during these lovely long summer days but AKKA wooden bedroom furniture will ensure you love every single moment that you do.

Is the bedroom being used by one person or two?   How many pieces of furniture can I fit in?  What pieces are essential?  Obviously a bed, do I need more than one chest of drawers?  How many wardrobes will I need?  Could some pieces be dual purpose?  If I have a large bedroom, should I go for larger items i.e. a triple wardrobe which may look more in proportion in the room?

A good idea is to use mirrors to give the illusion of space.  Different paint colours can make a room look bigger or smaller.  Maybe you have a beautiful picture that you would like to base the design or colour of your room around?  If you are giving your bedroom a total revamp it is always helpful to look through home magazines for inspiration.  How long are you intending to use the bedroom furniture, this will determine how much you are willing to spend on it.  Speak to retailers about your ideas, sometimes their advice can help in your decision making, be it a wooden bed, a chest of drawers or what size wardrobe.   Finally set yourself a budget and stick to it!

It is sometimes worthwhile buying a whole bedroom set at once as you may be able to negotiate a sizeable discount! The purchase of quality furniture does not come cheap so you must be sure that what you are buying is what you can live with.

There are a number of good reasons why you should choose F.S.C stamped timber for your bedroom furniture sets.

1. All the timber can be tracked from the forest to the finished furniture product.

2. F.S.C  timber is endorsed by such charties as WWF , The Woodland Trust and Greenpeace.

3. Some parts if not all of the forests are protected because endangered or rare animals and plants are located within it’s boundaries.

4. Forest owners try to employ local people to run and log the forests. This way the local people can earn a living from their local source – the forest.

5. Future generations will be able to work and earn from the forests.

6. It’s not only furniture that the F.S.C label can be found on. Decking , floors , paper and kitchen utensils are just a few other examples.

AKKA furniture makes sure that we fully utilize the full potential of all the log from the tree. We take all of the premimum central cuts of timber and make sure these are used for the drawer fronts , cabinet tops and also the siderails for our solid wooden beds. This means that all the external parts of the wooden cabinets , oak beds , walnut beds and other bedroom accessories we manufacture are showing off the best parts of a quality timber such as american white oak and american black walnut. We don’t just scrap the whitewood called sapwood,  this is used for our drawer sides and backs on the wooden chests. By choosing this method the white of the wood is hidden within the carcass.

Because we at Akka bedroom furniture design, manufacture and sell directly to you the customer we can be very competitive on pricing as we have such low overheads plus when you speak to somebody it is going to be the owners who are answering your questions whatever they are ,  not a sales person.  We believe that it’s important that we try and convey our quality of the comprehensive range we carry in solid oak and walnut through the website so customers can make an informed decision on us.

Last weekend we had one of those family days out to a large out of town shopping complex….. Bluewater!

After finally being worn down by the weather and the wife we ended up in a well known depatment store.  The wife was straight to the clothing department , kids safely deposited in the technology area and I quickly slipped off to the furniture depatment. To be fair there was quite  a few customers looking around the furniture on offer but in my opinion the quality didn’t match up with the price tag on each wooden piece.

1.  Drawer fronts were lots of pieces glued together instead of one solid piece.

2.  Drawer sides and backs weren’t of a matching wood to the drawer front.  Cheaper wood.

3.  The chests had a cheap ply back that didn’t match and wasn’t grooved into the framework of the chest. It was stapled in.

4. The wooden tops were full of white sapwood not plain clear oak.

I just wished iI could have set up a bedroom roomset from Akka alongside their options and let the public see for themselves the quality differences between the two bedroom furniture sets.  When it came to the prices Akka was up to two hundred ponds cheaper on wooden chests and up to one hundred and fifty pounds cheaper on wooden beds.

I came away from there and another major high street retailer more determined to try and get our product higher up on Google and Bing’s rankings. This will then get our furniture in peoples minds and hopefully bedrooms.

Bigger is not always better where furniture is concerned.  Give the small retailer a look.

Good lighting  is very important, you should make sure you have several layers of lighting or use a dimmer switch to adjust the energy.  Candles are best, but be sure to buy ones with no toxins.

Bedroom decor should be balanced to promote the best flow of energy for restorative sleep.  Ideal colours are so called ’skin colours’ which vary from pale white to rich cholcolate.  High quality sheets and duvets from natural fibres are very important when trying to create harmonious sleep.

Choose pictures and photographs for your bedroom carefully.  The best feng shui advice for the bedroom is to choose images that you would like to happen in your life.

Don’t clutter your bedroom with clothes, cast off shoes and boots.  Garments left hanging on chairs or on the end of your bed constitute worry as we know we will have to deal with them eventually.  Keep your bedroom as free from clutter as possible.

The bed is the most important piece of furniture that will promote intimate connection of your persona energy.  A solid bed and headboard, be it wood or upholstered is vital as this will support your head and neck whilse your body goes into energy repair during your sleeping hours.  A bed will need to have a good amount of space all round and underneath.  This allows the energy to flow around your body while sleeping.  Block this and the energy flow is blocked too.  The best codes of practice are as follows:

Place the bed in an area that is furthest away from the door

Don’t put the bed in line with the door

Solid wall behind you

A pair of bedside cabinets that balance energy either side of you

Make sure the walls nearest you do not have any tv’s, computers or radios

Do not position a mirror facing the bed

Make sure there is enough room to get into your bed from either side

Avoid sharp angles near you such as cabinet corners. 

Avoid beams, chandeliers or open beams that are above your bed, this is bad Feng Shui.

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.

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.

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.

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.