Oak is a time-honoured furniture material that was once used for this purpose simply on account of its practicality and ready availability. Over the centuries, however, people have come to realise the sheer aesthetic beauty of oak furniture, and this has been maximised by the many fascinating and ornate designs in which oak furniture is available today.
Indeed, oak is an example of a slow grown wood, which means that no piece of oak furniture looks exactly the same as any other, offering as it does unique grain and colour characteristics. This appealing natural beauty of oak furniture has long won it admirers, with popular types of oak furniture including antique inspired traditional oak furniture, which can consist of delicately carved chairs that are a good match to a neutral home interior scheme. Alternatively, you may be interested in more smoothly finished modern oak for more minimalist decor, or perhaps even upholstered oak for that extra level of opulence and luxury. Such a wide range of oak furniture styles demonstrates this material’s ability to complement the appearance of seemingly any home interior, whether traditional or contemporary.
Having said these things, oak furniture has never merely been popular because of its aesthetic properties. For one thing, it is strong and well-built, being durable enough to last for a lifetime. Indeed, its ability to take any number of hard knocks, with very little in the way of visible damage, together with its resistance even to moisture, makes oak furniture a particularly popular choice for children's furniture. Such a durability has made oak the material of choice for such pieces of furniture as beds, bookcases and wardrobes... and this incredibly wide range of different furniture pieces for which oak is used only makes it all the easier to assemble a full set of timeless-looking and visually complementary furniture.
Another key selling point of oak furniture is its adaptability. Pieces of furniture that are made out of oak are often of the kind of clean, simple designs that allow the natural beauty of the wood to speak for itself. Such adaptability also allows such oak furniture pieces to be freely moved around several rooms whilst never looking out of place in any one of them. This is naturally invaluable when you have such oak furniture pieces as chairs, bookcases or even dressers.
It seems that pretty much any piece of home furniture, in fact, can be specified in oak, from bed frames, coffee tables and TV and media units to chests of drawers, bathroom wash stands and nests of tables. Popular ranges here at Mercuro include Balmoral Oak, Avignon Solid Oak, Hampton Oak Furniture, Nexus Oak and Vancouver Oak, whilst other popular variations on the usual oak furniture formula include reclaimed oak.
Also known as recycled oak, reclaimed oak is oak that has been salvaged from old buildings and that has loads of character, courtesy of its many knots, wear marks and colour variations, whilst in no way compromising on the durability that is offered by every other type of oak furniture.
