Welcome To Classic Hardwood
Hello and welcome to my new blog. In this first post I feel that a short introduction is warrented, as this isn’t your average daily comment on the world’s news, entertainment or sport. There are many fine bloggers out there doing a far better job of that than I could ever achieve. I do feel, however, that there is a distict lack of sites providing valuable information about high caliber furniture. This is a gap I intend to fill with regular updates.
I have a passion for quality furniture, and in this blog I intend to share my passion with you. I have to warn you from the outset, though, I will be expressing my personal opinions and I will be as negative about poorly made furniture as I will be positive about well made furniture. These opinions will not only be drawn from personal experience of purchasing furniture for myself and various work places, and views of furniture that friends, family and colleages own, but also from the exposure I have had with the industry where I have gained knowledge of materials, manufacturing techniques and retailing.
I also intend to share impartial knowledge too, so it won’t just be what I think, it’ll be what I know.
My main aim with writing this blog is to spark a similar passion in my readers, and through that I hope that I will create more demand for quality furniture, and promote some of the dying arts involved in production and restoration of peices that will last a last time.
In short, I feel that we should all have indisposable furniture, rather than the current trend towards disposable furniture.
I welcome comments on any of my posts; if you want to add anything you feel I’ve missed, agree with or even disagree with me, I encourage active discussion and interaction. Don’t worry, I won’t bite! I would like to make this a two way learning adventure.
Hello. I love my hardwood furniture and I have a quantity for solid oak that I have purchased in the last couple of years. What’s worrying me is the upkeep and care of oak. I thought that just a quick spray of furniture polish and a flick of the duster was enough. Now I read that you should wax it or danish oil it or use various other products that are on the market…. What do you think
The last thing you want to do to unsealed oak is to use furniture polish. All it will do is dry the wood and make it crack over time.
What you need to do is apply thin coats of Danish oil on a quarterly basis for the first couple of years of its life, and then you can cut that down to twice a year. Other than that a dry lint free cloth will do the job.
It may sound like a hassle, but it takes no time at all and the oil’s as cheap as chips! Well worth the effort because it brings out the beauty in the wood.
It’s not just oak that needs this sort of treatment, do you have any other types of wood?
Hi. Yes I’ve got a couple of bedroom pieces in mango wood. They still have that distictive sweet woody smell. Do they need any special care???
Yes, but don’t oil them. The best thing for mango wood is to wax it with natural beeswax. It does much the same thing as the oil does to oak, but the mango is a more porous wood and would soak up the oil too quickly.
It sounds like you’ve got a houseful of lovely furniture. Lola. I hope the advice helps and you will get many years of pleasure from it.