Saturday, February 24, 2018

The Advantages Of Handmade Wood Furniture

By Jeffrey Stone


The quality of furnishings has drastically changed throughout time. Furnishings value has been greatly reduced because of adopting industry manufactured timber in making fittings. Demand for fittings has greatly increased improved in the recent past creating the need for new ways to promote production to meet the demand shortages in the market. This reduces the demand for handmade furnishings drastically. This publication will discuss advantages associated with the use of handmade wood furniture.

Solid handcrafted timber fittings are more durable that industry made fittings. Industries aim is profit making and not the durability of products they make. Thus, the fittings produced in industries are made of low quality manufactured timber that is not created to last. Fittings made from solid timber are very strong and durable that can be passed down to generations still in perfect condition.

Solid handcrafted lumber fittings are cheaper than manufactured fittings in the long run. The cost of often replacement of fixtures because of wearing-off ends up outwitting the cost of obtaining handcrafted fixtures which are more costly to buy. Furnishings made of solid wood are lifetime investments that are among the valuable items people value the most because they are very cheap to maintain.

Another important gain of using handcrafted solid timber fittings is that they can be customized to fit the clients' designs. This is very important because it creates uniqueness and gives clients exactly what they require. Manufactured fittings on the other hand usually have a specific design with differentiated color and patterns used. This increases the probability of finding the same type of furnishes in different places.

Handcrafted solid timber furnishes are environmentally friendly and sustainable. Their ability to last for long reduces wastage and pilling up of disposed unwanted furnishes that are worn out taking up a lot of space. When handcrafted furnishes wear out, solid timber used to make them may be recycled but materials used in making manufactured furnishes are of low quality and cannot be recycled.

Distribution of income within a society is facilitated by acquiring handcrafted timber furnishings. This is achieved by the fact that solid timber furnishings are made by artisans within the society making the money paid for them remain in the society. This is seen as supporting local society and community at large and at the same time, it saves on the cost incurred in transporting furnishings since it is within the same location.

A lot of nuclear, coal and natural gas energy is required in the industrial manufacture of furnishes compared to energy requirements of handcrafted furniture. Thus, there is a lot of emissions into the environment associated with the industrial manufacture of furnishes. Handcrafting way of making furniture is very effective and requires minimal and clean energy that does not have harmful emissions.

The art of craftsmanship is promoted through the sale of handcrafted solid timber furniture. This improves skills of artisans through exposure to clients' different designs throughout time making a class of skilled craftsmanship within a society. This builds a tradition of craftsmanship that is passed through to generations as a heritage and pride of the society. Manufactured furnishings contribute to dwindling craftsmanship.




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