Do you often get confused with the different bed sizes? Not sure if the new wooden bed you have just purchased is imperial or metric in size? Of course, these are important questions you must answer when buying your bed linen for your new oak or walnut bed. We have put together a list of sizes that will answer those questions! (more…)
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Confused about bed sizes?
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011AKKA Bedroom Furniture and where it’s wood comes from
Monday, November 8th, 2010At AKKA bedroom furniture we take the responsibilty of using ethical timbers very seriously. This means that we only use our american timbers that come with a forestry stewardship council stamp. This will identify that the timber has been sourced from a mill and forest owners that participate in managing it’s forests by re-planting trees after logging has taken place. This encourages people who live in the poorer parts of the world to see that they can still make money from the trees but also still see their natural habitat not totally disappear around them. (more…)
Bedroom Furniture Sets
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010Bedroom 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:
Oak Furniture
Sunday, August 1st, 2010Oak 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.
Furnishing your Bedroom
Monday, July 26th, 2010You 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.
Buying wooden bedroom furniture roomsets
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010Wooden bedroom furniture roomsets are sold in order to minimize the amount of time it takes to purchase furnishings. By buying furniture for the bedroom separately (that is, buying each piece individually), not only do you run the risk of breaking the design theme but you also may end up paying more in the long run. Buying roomsets may help offset cost in the same way that buying anything in bulk ends up cheaper. Many suppliers , manufacturers and retailers are willing to make deals and lower prices when consumers decide to purchase a package deal that includes all of the bedroom furniture for a specific part of the home. Doing this for a bedroom makes more sense as bedroom furniture is very functional. There are decorative pieces available, but it is likely that everything in a set will be used some way or another.
Choosing the best bedroom furniture for you
Friday, May 7th, 2010A 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.
How to make the most of your bedroom
Thursday, February 18th, 2010With the addition of televisions, desks and exercise equipment to bedrooms, there is a greater constraint on available space in the room. There are many creative solutions to dealing with a lack of space. When planning your bedroom, it is important to maximize the space you have to deal with. Whether you just have a lot of stuff or your room is small, creative organizing will help to make the most of the room you have.
There are many ways to save space simply by the calculated positioning of your bed in the room. In a limited space, one idea is to shift your bed lengthwise against a wall to create a daybed, thus allowing extra room for more furniture, like a coffee table or some chairs.
In a small space, prioritize the pieces of furniture for the room. By deciding what’s more important, whether it’s a big impressive bed or a lot of space for storage, the room is better able to fit your specific needs. For example, if you’re a person who has a lot of books or videotapes that you wish to keep in your room, a good solution would be finding a bedside table that also serves as a bookshelf.
If extra shelves are not needed, but drawer space is using a small chest of drawers for a bedside table could also be a good solution. Using that specific piece of furniture as a table and either shelves or drawers to store things, the potential of the space is maximized.
Storage can also be accomplished by a large chest at the end of the bed for example a blanket box, which could also serve as a place to sit with the simple addition of a cushion. Underneath the bed is also a storage place that should not be overlooked for underbed drawers which could help free up more space within the room for other things.
AKKA Bedroom Furniture – Wood we use
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Here at AKKA we use two woods in the manufacture of our wooden beds and bedroom furniture. We have detailed below a desription of each wood
American White Oak – White oak is similar in colour and appearance to European oak. The sapwood of American white oak is light coloured and the heatwood is light to dark brown. White oak is mostly straight grained with a medium to coarse texture, the longer rays than red oak. White oak therefore has more figure.
American Black Walnut – The sapwood of walnut is creamy white, while the heartwood is light brown to dark chocolate brown, occasionally with a purplish cast and darker streaks. Walnut can be supplied steamed, to darken sapwood or left unsteamed. The wood is generally straight grained but sometimes with wavy or curly grain that produces an attractive and decorative figure.
At Akka we make sure that all our oak /walnut beds and oak / walnut cabinets have no sapwood showing on the outside of the product just clear natural wood. This is what sets our bedroom furniture apart from our competitors.
Akka Bedroom Furniture Construction
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009After selecting the bedroom furniture you require, there are a number of issues consumers should be aware of when purchasing wooden bedroom furniture.
Akka Furniture supplies:
- Oak beds and walnut beds - assembly required
- Oak cabinets, walnut cabinets - fully assembled
- bedside cabinets, wooden dressing tables - fully assembled
- Oak wardrobes and walnut wardrobes - assembly required
We use a mixture of solid wood and selected veneers to construct our wooden bedroom furniture. There is an assumption that in order to purchase good quality bedroom furniutre it must be ’solid wood’. This is incorrect. In many cases, a good quality veneer and wood construction can outlast a piece of bedroom furniture constructed of solid wood. The reason is that veneer is less prone to cracking. Bedroom furniture constructed of solid wood has a tendency to sometimes crack or split if it hasn’t been dried out correctly. This doesn’t mean that solid wood will always crack. It only means that wooden bedroom furniture cabinets constructed with veneers should not be overlooked as purchase options.
The best quality wooden bedroom furniture will always require the drawers to be ‘dovetailed’. Dovetails are basically a series of ‘v’ shapes cut into the sides or backs of the drawers which attach together making solid, long lasting joints.
All of AKKA furniture’s oak cabinets and walnut cabinets have dovetails all the way round the drawer boxes.