Real Wood vs Quality Wood: The Furniture Buying Guide

People ask, is there such a thing as cheap solid wood furniture?

Well, any solid wood furniture is better than particleboard as far as I'm concerned, but yes there is, and knowing the difference matters.

Cheap solid wood furniture is usually rubber wood or pine, sometimes made with soft joinery like staples or dowels instead of proper joints.

Proper joints would be the wonderful dovetailing you see here on the Stickley piece. Still, real wood is still better than particleboard, but it dents easier and doesn't take a finish as well.

Quality solid wood furniture is Made from American grown wonderful oak, maple, cherry, ash, walnut, it's kiln drying to get the moisture out, it's got mortise and tenon joints, it'll last a long, long time.

Dovetail drawers, real thickness feels heavy when you lift the drawers, that's a good acid test, so solid wood furniture isn't automatically premium.

Some is lesser quality, but solid wood furniture made in America is real solid wood, hardwood from the American forests in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, from the heartland of America.

Buy your solid wood furniture today at Gallery Furniture, you'll enjoy it for years.