Why Solid Wood Furniture Beats Engineered Wood

What's the difference between solid wood, Made in America, and engineered wood?

Night and day is the difference. People hear the words "engineered wood" and think it's somehow better because it sounds high-tech, but let me tell you, it's engineered crap. Solid wood comes from a real hardwood tree: maple, oak, cherry, walnut, Made in America, in the heartland of America. Naturally strong, naturally beautiful, every board has its own unique grain that no factory can duplicate.

Engineered wood is made by binding together wood chips, fibers, and layers. They grind them together, they put glue in it, and they make engineered wood. Is that what you want your family eating dinner on and getting those noxious fumes coming up out of that engineered wood? Not me! Not me! I want solid wood furniture Made in America.

There's no substitute for the real thing, solid wood. When you run your hand across this Amish handcrafted table, you're touching something that grew for decades before a craftsman ever started building it.

For every tree they harvest, they replant 30 more trees.

That's real beauty, that's real solid wood furniture, it's real sustainable forestry, that's real strength. That's why Gallery Furniture firmly believes in American-made solid wood furniture, hand-built to hand down.