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Built-in wooden furniture in the house
The way the image of a country house or apartment changes with the advent of built-in wooden furniture is simply amazing. The charm of tradition, a sense of stability, classic notes and just the warmth of your home appear out of nowhere.
Built-in wooden furniture is usually a handmade item. In the USA, for example, there is a whole style in interior design – arts & crafts, which is based on using woodwork in the design of your own cottage to the maximum.
Thus, even now, built-in wooden furniture is popular. In luxury residences, small bungalows and beach houses, it helps the new architecture maintain a sense of tradition.
The way the image of a country house or apartment changes with the advent of built-in wooden furniture is simply amazing. The charm of tradition, a sense of stability, classic notes and just the warmth of your home appear out of nowhere. Continue reading
Table history
Ordinary table: a rectangular board on four legs from time immemorial served the person.
The simplest were the feasting tables – roughly knocked together boards set up on goats. Both princes and their squads and ordinary people feasted at such tables. I must say that in our time for large village weddings, which are celebrated in the courtyard in the summer and early autumn, they make the same banquet tables.
2 In miniatures of the Old Russian annals, Nestor, the chronicler, is depicted at the table for “knee writing.” These desks were not high, and their upper board was at the level of the writing knee. In addition, they were equipped with music stands. The parchment on which they wrote lay on its knees, and on the table itself there was everything necessary: inkwells, feathers, rulers, knives for cutting sheets and sharpening feathers.
Then tables appeared that looked like a chest: with low legs, with a lifting tabletop, under which there were many compartments and small drawers. Continue reading
Characteristics of some types of wood
Solid wood furniture is quite expensive. It is easy for a layman to confuse a chipboard with an array. In order not to be mistaken, it is best to look at the wooden details on the cut. If this is not possible, then you need to pay attention to the drawing of the tree: it is easy to find identical patterns on pressed plates, but a natural tree never repeats its lines.
You can relate to this as you like, but many centuries have been talking about the energy of trees and wooden furniture and their impact on humans. Three main types of trees are known by the type of their impact on humans:
– Trees – “vampires” – when contact reduces a person’s energy, aspen, poplar, chestnut, willow, spruce, bird cherry.
– Trees – “donors” – improve energy, give strength to oak, acacia, birch, maple, mountain ash.
– “Neutral” – everyone else. Continue reading
