We moved into our present home about five years ago. Our previous home was a ten year old house, but it paled into insignificance when compared to the century old lake house that is now our present home.As is traditional, we brought the furniture and accessories that we had used in our former home. But because our lake home was fitted with oak trims it became inevitable that we had to change some of the accessories. So we decided to start with the maple occasional tables and replace them with oak coffee tables. Read more »
My father built my wood bookcase in the 1960′s, it has survive well with only a chip. My Grandma gave a wood card table with English hunting scene.
The small space where I live means the card table lives in the storage shed though it is the best thing I own, likely antique but it folds away nicely.
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My parents have had the same wooden coffee table with matching side tables for roughly thirty years.
They general keep the same furniture until it is completely unusable, and I think these tables have been the only thing that lasted through two kids and about 8 moves.
I have no idea where they got them, or how much they were. They have these stylistic groves in them; a series of geometric patterns gently carved into the top that are beautiful, but a giant pain to clean.
Originally all of the tables had glass tops to both prevent damage to the wood and to keep them clean, but my brother and his friends broke all of them before I was born. Read more »
I have two different wooden kitchen tables.
One is an antique set that was purchased by my father and the other is a Omash set.
The antique was passed down to me and the other was purchased for function.
Oak is by far the strongest, so use that for large pieces of furniture.
Ash/Maple/Pine are all fairly strong, but cheaper than oak. Read more »
Wood Furniture | furniture | 
January 28, 2011 9:59 am | 
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