bathroom furniture
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
About wooden furniture and its properties.
Wood has been the only material for furniture for many centuries. Despite technological progress, people continue to make furniture from natural wood.
Moreover, thanks to the centuries-old experience of using different types of trees, studying their properties, people have found the most optimal ways to produce, process and operate wooden furniture.
One of the main factors when choosing wooden furniture is the appearance and texture of the wood from which the furniture is made. If we leave the visual qualities to your discretion, then it is better to figure it out in advance with the mechanical characteristics – hardness, wear resistance, strength and deformability.
According to the degree of density, wood is divided into three main groups: Continue reading
Wicker Furniture Tips
To begin with, we note that not all furniture that looks like wicker is a natural rattan or vine. In Europe, for example, luxury furniture for the garden is made of artificial rattan. Artificial wicker furniture is made of synthetic fiber imitating weaving. Such furniture is weatherproof, it can be on the street all year round without any special care. At least that’s what European brand manufacturers say.
Collections of artificial wicker furniture are developed by designers and may reflect the latest trends in interior fashion. The drawback, in fact, is one, it is not a natural material. The feeling of plastic will always be different than that of furniture made from natural materials.
Natural rattan furniture, as a rule, is made in the countries of Southeast Asia, where the rattan itself come Continue reading
