Why restoring your existing cane and rush chairs makes sense...
If you've been thinking of replacing your existing chairs with new, think again. The chairs of yesteryear were often built with higher grades of lumber from old growth forest. These chairs were also built by old line furniture manufactures who crafted their wares in the European tradition with pride and structural integrity. The few remaining American manufacturers for the most part exist in name only having succumed to Wall Street's push for profits. This of course sent most furniture manufacturing oversees. Not good for the balance of trade to say the least. Because of these facts, in many cases, by restoring your old furniture, you are in effect recreating a high quality piece of furniture that may not be available today.
And of course there's the green factor with the cutting down of more trees, perhaps from a rain forest in Brazil, not to mention the oil it takes to harvest, ship and produce the new furniture. And the jobs created manufacturing the new cheaply built furniture oversees aren't helping America's unemployment rate while hiring a local artisan to restore your existing furniture certainly is. Additionally, when restoring a piece of furniture you have the opportunity to pick new colors on finish and fabrics which adds a fun creative dimension to the process that is often missing in today's big box furniture store experience.
Also, while shopping for replacement furniture there tends to be an financial snowball effect of "additional purchases" while accessorizing your new acquisition. Let's face it, the time for conspicuous consumption is behind us. In the past, many would simply toss out a damaged chair unmindful of the many considerations listed above or our landfill capacity problems. But now, thanks to the mass "thoughtfulness" brought on by our new economic realities, people think twice before tossing that chair. Especially those heirloom pieces. "If chairs could talk!" the memories they would speak of. Chairs are our friends and family. Well, they've certainly held a bunch of them anyways.
So if you own a faithful old chair, or chairs, with good bones that's served you well through the years and it's in need of a little (or a lot) of TLC, consider going the restoration route this time. You may be pleasantly surprised.
If you've been thinking of replacing your existing chairs with new, think again. The chairs of yesteryear were often built with higher grades of lumber from old growth forest. These chairs were also built by old line furniture manufactures who crafted their wares in the European tradition with pride and structural integrity. The few remaining American manufacturers for the most part exist in name only having succumed to Wall Street's push for profits. This of course sent most furniture manufacturing oversees. Not good for the balance of trade to say the least. Because of these facts, in many cases, by restoring your old furniture, you are in effect recreating a high quality piece of furniture that may not be available today.
And of course there's the green factor with the cutting down of more trees, perhaps from a rain forest in Brazil, not to mention the oil it takes to harvest, ship and produce the new furniture. And the jobs created manufacturing the new cheaply built furniture oversees aren't helping America's unemployment rate while hiring a local artisan to restore your existing furniture certainly is. Additionally, when restoring a piece of furniture you have the opportunity to pick new colors on finish and fabrics which adds a fun creative dimension to the process that is often missing in today's big box furniture store experience.
Also, while shopping for replacement furniture there tends to be an financial snowball effect of "additional purchases" while accessorizing your new acquisition. Let's face it, the time for conspicuous consumption is behind us. In the past, many would simply toss out a damaged chair unmindful of the many considerations listed above or our landfill capacity problems. But now, thanks to the mass "thoughtfulness" brought on by our new economic realities, people think twice before tossing that chair. Especially those heirloom pieces. "If chairs could talk!" the memories they would speak of. Chairs are our friends and family. Well, they've certainly held a bunch of them anyways.
So if you own a faithful old chair, or chairs, with good bones that's served you well through the years and it's in need of a little (or a lot) of TLC, consider going the restoration route this time. You may be pleasantly surprised.
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