Category Archives: Furniture
Furniture Restoration
Furniture restoration heard in various settings. If you love to watch do-it-yourself shows, shows that help determine the value of antiques, like the Antique Road Show on PBS and other similar programs, you may find yourself one day looking around your house and think you’ve got some furniture restoration Your project does not mind taking [...]
Furniture Slipcovers
These days’ furniture slipcovers can be found for seats of all shapes and sizes, from wing backed chairs to sectional sofas, from loveseats to the bench. Installation of a new holster for your favorite piece of furniture offers a simple but effective way to immediately improve the appearance and give a fresh lease of life. [...]
A Guide To Choosing The Right Closet
Wardrobe is important equipment in the home. Apart from containing and providing protection for clothes, toys, and food, the closet contributes significantly to the atmosphere of space and design. Before placing orders for cabinets, here are some things you should consider. The size of the cabinet depends on the size of the room where the [...]
Furniture Down The Ages (II)
Oriental old furniture made designs carved in ebony and teak. Ancient Egyptians style furniture on display classiest form of wood, and body decorations. It’s different because the carvings of animals that have a gold and ivory inserted in it. Greek furniture styles were different because of low sofas, and tripod. The ornately decorated with period [...]
Handmade furniture I
Tukuro, a modern collection of furniture and lighting based on totemic forms from primitive cultures, combines spiritual impulses with material practicalities. The way Walter Spalding Robbins II— or Tucker Robbins, as he’s known professionally—tells it, his story is an intriguing mix of Hindu mysticism and Auntie Mame. “After she was widowed, my grandmother didn’t just [...]
Oriental furniture and items (II)
The very early screens became more than just a means of privacy or beauty. Like scrolls, they kept before the eyes the moral sayings and quotations of great men. The Coromandel screens were lacquered and decorated with designs which cut through the lacquer into the wood. The spaces were then filled with thick opaque water [...]
