Wood furniture has long been a staple of home decor for thousands of years. In fact, probably since the beginning of human history. Today's wood furniture can add class and style to any home if implemented the right way. Read below to find out some great new trends in wood furniture that you should be considering for your home.

First, I want to talk about one of the hottest trends in wood furniture right now: multi game tables. These are usually 5-piece table and chair sets that can convert to different games or an elegant dining room set. These sets will convert to a poker table with cup holders, chip trays, and a fancy casino style felt. Take the top off the table and you have yourself a great bumper pool table. Most sets will come with billiard balls and cue sticks also. Put the top back on and you have an elegant, classy dining table that no one would ever expect to have so much fun with. The chairs are usually comfortable, upholstered arm chairs. Check this new wood furniture trend out online.

Second, the other really hot trend in wood furniture right now is home bar furniture. You can buy a pre-built home bar that will integrate seamlessly into any room of your home. You can put it in the finished basement or game room. Most home bars will come with two barstools and some of them will even have an optional wall unit with wine racks and storage compartments. There are great styles and different options to choose from. Check this one out online too!

Lastly, the third trend in wood furniture is home office furniture. New home office furniture sets are being unveiled that offer better organization and usability for the busy home professional. These new designs are focusing on matching existing home decor instead of bringing a work environment into your home. The goal, of course, is to make the home office more of a living space in your home, than a work place. You can get sets that include a desk, office chair, and an organizer for very cheap. Match your existing decor with contemporary or traditional pieces and make you home office a more relaxing, productive environment. The key is to buy home office furniture that is very pleasing to your senses.

A great place to find these new wood furniture trends is online. Just search the web and you will find great sites that offer these furnishings at super low prices. Happy hunting!

Whether you decide to create your own plan or borrow a landscaping design, you try to understand the basic of landscaping by reading and researching the subject so to understand the basic principles. Before you begin you should take some time to research and plan your landscape design with all details, make a project plan to be sure you have captured all details. Since you know your needs the best, it is advisable that you plan the landscape design personally. Before going in for landscape design, plan and work out the design in detail.

These are the elements that look good because they are generally based on basic principles of art. Consistency creates unity in the sense that some or all of the different elements of the landscape fit together to create a whole. A big mistake that many do it yourselfers and homeowners make is in placing too many objects, plant varieties, and too many varied elements in their initial design. The use of native plants in the design will greatly reduce the amount of care needed for the plants to thrive.

Landscaping often relies on other elements to create balance and harmony through unity. A common option is using stones and with so many stone colors and sizes available today, it’s easy to mix and match them to create a landscape edging look that’s truly unique.

To start you should begin by laying out the driveway, pathways and all walking areas that you will need. Spot treating problem areas will often be all that is needed. Make sure you have all the supplies you need to make the landscape design happen. Make a check list of the things you need example: dirt, rock, mulch, tools, plants, flowers and stone work. When creating the plan set certain goals and estimate how much time and money it will cost to do the job.

Garden or landscaper designer have the ability, training and knowledge about different kinds of plants, stone, soil and flowers, this will help tremendously and most landscape designer will provide some type of drawings which will help visualizing what the landscape will look like some even go as far as giving you a 3d layout. Most landscape designers will design the landscaping for free. When choosing a landscape designer make sure you contact at least three to compare designs and prices.

A good landscape design is expected to include a great number of trees and plants which emphasize the beauty of each other through the year. And even with this in mind, most people will go to market and pick out several varieties of mismatched plants to place in their landscaping.

Use these guidelines to simplify your design and to ensure that your garden or landscape has a professional finished look. Many people turn to designing the landscaping themselves and one of the best ways to do this is to use one of the popular landscape design software programs that are available and these programs are basically easy to use.

Many people are afraid to clean their wood furniture, but it very simple to do. There are different types of scenarios that you may encounter than will take different cleaning techniques. Before you start to clean wood furniture it is important to remove all dust and dirt from the piece. This process is simply done by take a damp cloth and wiping down the furniture.

Basic cleaning: To wipe off any easy stains, such as dirt, dust, coffee, take a sponge and dip in warm water. Then wring out the sponge, so it is damp. Then gently apply the sponge in the affected area. The grime should disappear. If there is anything sticky, such as gum or old tape, it can be easily removed by lemon juice. Although one spot maybe dirty, it is recommended to decontaminate the entire piece to ensure the cleaning job looks symmetrical. After you are done wiping your furniture, take a soft, dry, clean cloth and dry the area immediately. This step is very important because, over time, the wood maybe start to deteriorate.

Older or antique wood furniture: When you are ready to clean your antique furniture, it is necessary to do it right. You will need several clean clothes, a cut up cotton t-shirt will work fine. Gently dampen the clothes and wipe down the furniture. Also you may need to use lemon juice to remove any sticky stains. After cleaning, make sure you dry the piece extremely well. To ensure that your cleaning does not get affected, it is wise to have the piece out of sunlight, and in a moisture free environment. While cleaning your wooden furniture there are a few precautions to take.

Before the advent of mass production, most furniture was largely handcrafted by artisans. Of course, time has moved on and construction techniques, mechanical tools, and methods have advanced significantly. But in choosing outdoor furniture, it's very important to take note on how the particular item is assembled, how the joints are made, what fixings are used, the strength of the individual components and the quality of the finish.

For commercial outdoor furniture, which needs to withstand not only the weather but also mistreatment and neglect, the centuries old joining method of mortice and tenon is still generally preferred. A well-made item of furniture, with mortice and tenon joints will be solid, with tight joints and will last for years. But of course the extra time and care taken in this method of construction means the price will inevitably be higher of the furniture item.

To speed up construction and keep costs down, allot of furniture is now constructed using a dowelled joints. Whilst not as strong as traditional mortice and tenon joints, a dowelled joint can give many years of good service. In fact a lot of furniture may use mortice and tenon joints for the main structural elements but dowels for the more decorative elements in the design - a perfectly acceptable compromise. Of course any adhesives used should be water resistant, something that is not really possible to check, but generally this does not seem to be a problem in practice, except maybe in really low cost outdoor furniture.

For added strength, some makers will combine brass fittings with dowelled joints to ensure the dowelled joints are pulled together and kept as tight as possible.

The cheapest method of construction uses metal fixings only. Often these are used with kit-set or knock-down self assembly furniture, as it allows the homeowner to save more money by assembling the product themselves. The downside is that such furniture is generally not as strong and involves regular tightening of the fittings, as they tend to bed into the wood with continual use of the furniture. Also inferior quality fittings may be used which are neither made of corrosion resistant metals such as brass, nor have a high quality plated finish, so can be subject to rusting or other corrosion at quite an early stage.

Another less obvious problem with tables in particular, is swelling of the wood. As wood generally expands at a different rate in its longitudinal and tangential planes, this means that as the timber gets wet or dries out, unsightly gaps can occur at joints, or in the worst cases, the timber twists out of shape, if the maker has not taken sufficient care at the design stage. You need to take care for example with some wooden table tops, if the middle of the table is a more complex design with elements running both straight and perpendicular. Most manufacturers will leave small expansion gaps at the end of the longitudinal wood sections to allow for some expansion and contraction. With some more stable wood species such as teak, this is typically not a problem, but with some other species, expansion in both directions can be significantly different and problems can arise.

Take note also of the finish of the piece. With certain wood species, the grain of the timber can be rather coarse, so unless the edges of the piece are sanded well, it's possible to get splinters. Take particular note of the end grain. Many manufacturers apply a special oil coating or wax to the end grain to prevent the ingress of water and help to prolong the life of the furniture. Most manufacturers will apply some type of initial protective coating, although this is generally a rather basic coating which tends to enhance the colour of the wood rather than contributing to any particular preservative properties. To ensure a longer life, it is thus recommended that you give your furniture a further coating with a good quality decking or furniture oil very shortly after you purchase the item, and certainly within the first six months of its use.

And so, in conclusion, when looking at purchasing outdoor furniture, the important points to consider (apart from the durability of the wood species) are the type of joints, the thickness of timber used, the quality of any metal fixings and the actual design aspects of the particular piece.