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Quality Australian Timber Used To Make Unique Furniture Pieces
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Quality Australian Timber Used To Make Unique Furniture Pieces
Date Added: October 12, 2011 05:53:13 AM
Author: designerfurniture1
Category: Home

Buyers of custom built timber furniture can choose to purchase a piece from the showroom floor or order something to be made especially for them. If they take this road, there are a number of key decisions to be made. They will need to select the design of the item, the type of timber to be used and the colour or stain of the finished product. These selections are best made using the advice of professional designers who understand the relationship between soft and hard timbers and how they can be best incorporated into the final product. Some furniture manufacturers use imported timbers in their products, but there are others making furniture Brisbane using Australian timbers. By using carefully selected soft and hard timbers, furniture designers can increase the longevity and attractiveness of individual pieces. One of the most popular Australian timbers used in furniture making is Tasmanian Oak. The name is a little misleading, and came from early English timber workers who thought it had similar properties to English oak. It is an attractive, light colour that ranges from nut-brown through to straw and pale pink. Tasmanian Oak is perfect for furniture making as it has durability, strength and beauty, and moulds and stains extremely well. Another native hardwood, Tasmanian Blackwood, is also durable, stable and easily worked. Sourced from a small but reliable supply, this timber is light to dark brown with intermittent attractive red tinting. It cuts, turns and bends easily. It also shows a deep, lustrous grain that makes it particularly suitable for making furniture. Hoop pine occurs naturally in drier rainforests in the Hastings River area of New South Wales, and in far North Queensland. However, the timber used for furniture making is grown locally in plantations so is environmentally sustainable. This is a soft timber with a pale cream to light yellow-brown tone, and has a fine and even-textured grain. It machines to a smooth surface and is particularly suitable for staining. Its versatility makes it very suitable in furniture making as it is used for carvings, moulding, joinery and wood-turning. Experienced bedroom furniture Brisbane designers identify the best combinations of these timbers, consider the amount of machining and turning required, the texture and various grains, and the different tones that occur naturally in the wood itself. They are expert at staining and polishing to highlight the beauty of these tones. Creating beautiful, individual pieces of custom built timber furniture requires the knowledge of working wood to bring out its natural beauty, the ability to choose the best type of timber for a particular use and the flair to put it all together. The end result is an enduring, unique piece of furniture that will grace a dwelling for many years to come. http://www.ambrosefurniture.com.au
 
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