The Recent Resurgence in Rustic Oak Furniture

There's been a growing trend recently towards solid oak furniture and far from cheaper flat pack alternatives. This may come as a surprise during a time of global recession but while the flat pack furniture giants may have dominated the nineties and the majority of the 'noughties', there's been a rapid growth in the wooden furniture industry, particularly through online retailers.

Gone were the times when people would become attached with a certain piece or type of furniture and stick to it for decades if not a lifetime. In the wasteful, throwaway culture of the nineties. design table

people would get rid of their flat pack furniture every several years while the fashion dictated. Yet in the recession of the late 2000s, despite people having less money, growing numbers of families started to opt for the high quality, are more durable wooden furniture of days gone by.

Less is more and while people do indeed have less, they care more about what they do have and are interested to last. While a chest of drawers from an appartment pack retailer might cost half or indeed a next of its wooden counterpart, the cheap, often fragile,

chipboard used and the short-lived fashion where it was designed can last typically 3-5 years. Wood furniture is furniture forever and the original outlay pales compared when the robust construction and timeless traditional design means so it can last a lifetime.