What Is The Most Excellent Pick For Ready To Finish Wooden Furniture - Pine Versus Oak

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by: ChrisHartpence
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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 Time: 2:50 AM
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The most readily obtainable bare wood furniture is pine, and there are several grounds for this. Pine is plentiful and, as a soft wood, is relatively light and easy to work with. It also gives a good balance between attractiveness and durability, and stands up better than many other types of timber in high humidity environments. It also takes stains and paints well, which are the most common ways of finishing a piece of bare wood furniture.

Price is another often influential factor. There's really no better worth for your money than pine bare wood furniture, and with good care, a pine article can last for years. Its easy availability, attractiveness, robustness and price combine to make it an excellent choice when considering buying a piece of unfinished furniture.

If pine is the most readily available type of bare wood furniture, then oak is not far behind. While more expensive than pine (in part because of its slightly lesser availability, but also since it's more difficult to work with), oak is steeped in nostalgia and tradition. Many famous pieces of oak wood furniture made in the Middle Ages are still all over today, a testament to the stability of this type of wood.

Oak is a hardwood, and as such, will typically have more marked and interesting grain designs. Like pine, it takes paints and stains perfectly, but where pine offers good durability for the money, oak offers superb durability, and generally requires fewer in the way of preservation and upkeep.

Due to this, while pine wood furniture is absolutely acceptable for numerous uses, if the piece you're thinking is destined for high traffic and intense use (a dining table or desk, for instance) then spending a little more and investing in oak is perhaps the better choice.

If you don't care mixing wood types in your home furnishings, my advice would be this:

Utilize pine bare wood furniture for accent benches, book cases and other pieces where traffic and use will be light to normal. Also, pine should be taken as a top contender in bathrooms and other high humidity environments.

Utilize oak bare wood furniture for heavy load/high use pieces such as desks and dining tables, where its greater robustness will enable it to hold up to the rigors of constant use with relatively little in the way of upkeep.

Whatever kind of wood you settle on, with good upkeep and maintenance, your bare wood furniture should survive for generations and if you finish the piece yourself, it will be imbued with a bit of your family's culture.

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