What is the importance of natural wood for making furniture? From our experience as furniture and upholstery manufacturers, the use of natural wood in furniture depends on the quality of the wood and its type since, depending on its characteristics, we can work it in one way or another. When choosing wooden furniture it is very common to be carried away by aesthetics and price as value factors. However, if what you are looking for is to buy natural wood furniture for your home, apartment or hotel, you must take into account other aspects such as finishes, quality, resistance or how it ages depending on the types of wood. Natural wood is an element that takes us to nature and captivates our eyes. Before decorating, you must first know the different types of wood that exist.
Types of natural woods for furniture
Generally, different kinds of wood are used for making furniture, however, the following are the most used throughout the world. These are some types of natural wood for furniture that are most used in interior design:
Oak
At first glance we associate oak with hardness and of course, it is the most significant attribute of this type of wood, characterized by its yellowish brown color. Furniture made from oak wood is much more durable, so if you want elegant furniture that will last for many years, oak furniture is a good choice. It also has a wide range of colors and accepts any type of finishes. Likewise, oak is a wood that hardly needs maintenance, especially in interior furniture. For this reason, in the NH Ventas 4* and NH Colón 4* hotels, both located in Madrid, we use Rund tables to design their common areas. These three side tables, whose solid oak wood structure with a natural finish, allow you to create different compositions thanks to their sizes and heights. We have sought maximum formal simplicity to eliminate everything superfluous and focus on lines that give them great visual delicacy. Even armchairs Even whose wooden base is made of ash have also been used for this set of hotels.
Ash tree
It is the wood that we use the most in our products today. It is a dense, hard and very strong but at the same time elastic wood, which allows it to be, above all, very resistant for intensive use. The results that this wood offers us in furniture is a seal of quality and durability. We use it in countless of our products, for example in our Besk, Poet, Erla desks and in chairs like Bazk or Níes. Once again, an option to take into account if we are looking for long-lasting furniture.
Sycamore
This type of wood produces furniture of great elegance and exoticism that is also very resistant. If you want to decorate an area of your home with a special piece, without a doubt, we recommend, for example, the Luxu side tables made of this wood. A cabinetmaking job where the materials and their handling speak for themselves.
Walnut
Hardness and strength are key factors in walnut wood. This wood is different from the rest because it is an easy material to work with, with finishes that border on perfection. Its different shades, ranging from gray to dark brown, make it a wood that catches the eye. In addition, it provides quality and warmth to the environments at the same time. American walnut is a wood that, over the years, as the furniture ages, improves its color and intensity, giving the furniture a higher category. One of our most outstanding solid walnut wood tables is the RAIZ center table.
How to distinguish quality furniture?
A wood that has withstood the passage of years without scratches or obvious signs on its surface layers demonstrates its quality. On the contrary, wood with obvious signs of use, especially if the furniture is not very old, denotes that the furniture has been made with low quality wood. In any case, the general condition of a piece of furniture, whether made of low or high quality wood, depends largely on the use made of it and its maintenance. Wood is our base element, on which we develop almost all of Beltá&Frajumar works, being present in them in a small or large way. A piece of furniture can accompany us for several decades, so it is recommended that we invest in quality furniture, made of resistant wood and with good finishes.
