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Rustic Furniture Reconnects You with Nature
Once reserved for hunting cabins and mountain lodges, log furniture is welcome in many styles of home décor today. The warmth and relaxed feeling rustic furniture imparts can bring a connection with nature into every room. From very sparse lines in design to more intricate craftsmanship, you’ll find a great deal of charm and beauty in the purity that only nature can create.
Log furniture can be crafted from gleaming pine, long lasting cedar and a variety of hardwoods.Each natural wood will impart its personality and hue to your decorating scheme. Pine will be pale in color blending beautifully with off whites and adding a fresh look that is warm and unique. Rustic furniture crafted from cedar logs will be carry a warm glow that is quintessentially the character of this wonderful wood. Aspen log furniture offers a silvered taupe tone, while hickory pieces exude both blonde and honey brown. For the darkest color in relaxed furnishings, the aged timbers for barnwood furniture is perfect.
Depending on the designer’s eye, some pieces of log furniture will be supple and barely smooth as is the character of logs completely free of bark. Others exude a more rustic charm with both clean planed wood and bark covered logs used in the creation. Free of unnatural stains, rustic furniture brings out the true natural beauty of the wood and it’s graining. This lends a very unique look to each piece of rustic furniture built today.
Log furniture can be very rustic or a wonderful blend of finely crafted ironwork and the warmth of natural wood. Selecting the right pieces of rustic furniture for your home can be a great deal of fun, unlike shopping for traditional stained to match furniture lines. No other style of home furnishings has quite the unique character that log construction offers. How could the factory duplication ever hope to compare with the fabulous creativity of Mother Nature? If it weren’t for the unexplainable, nature would be as mesmerizing as plastic resin pottery. Seen a few, seen ‘em all.
Sturdy construction should be an important factor in the collecting of furnishings for the savvy homeowner. The majority of today’s fine furnishings offered in traditional furniture lines today are largely comprised with the use of particle board and paper or vinyl surface wood grain effects. This is not a wise investment in your home and its beauty. Log furniture, however, is solid wood from top to bottom, all lovingly finished to create handsome accents and useful pieces that will be cherished for many years to come.
Rustic furniture can add so much of the warmth of natural purity to sleek modern homes and the perfect relaxed mood to the traditional styled abode. Something you will notice about log furniture that is not found in any other style on the market is the instant impact of character and reality one solitary piece can add to a room. Solid and built to last, naturally unique rustic furniture is something that you and your family will enjoy inside and on the patio or porch, as part of what makes a house a home. Harmony with nature will play a large part in your life wherever you add log furniture to the décor.