If you are like me, you want your home to reflect your personality, style, and individuality. Can you imagine a football player in a lacy canopy bed in a pink bedroom? Neither can I. Conversely, I would not be comfortable in a room decorated with black, white and stainless steel. We also crave certain uniqueness in our private areas. Great warmth and personality can be achieved through custom furniture created by an artistic cabinet maker. custom cabinetry makes good use of your particular space in addition to its ability to make your home your own.

We can come up with many reasons for engaging a custom furniture maker. First is your great need for individuality. When you pay a designer to create a unique piece for you, you take ownership of the design, guaranteeing its one-of-a-kind status. As you brainstorm with the designer, you can discuss your preferences, and the designer can add his or her own ideas. When the two sets of ideas are blended, the result will be a work of art.

Another reason may be that you may have a source of wood you would like used for the project. One couple commissioned a bedroom suite to be made from the wood of trees on their property that were blown down by a tornado. Such a loss of precious trees becomes more bearable when the wood can become a treasured part of the bedroom. A tragic waste becomes a thing of beauty.

So much of what is manufactured today is not real and is cheaply constructed. I’m not talking about veneers now. Veneer is a respected way of making the best use of a valuable resource by putting a thin facing of beautiful, valuable wood onto a surface consisting of an inexpensive and common wood. What I am talking about is decorative details such as carving. In massed produced furniture, decorative carving is likely to be molded polyurethane foam. It looks acceptable and mostly realistic, but it is obviously not real. If you choose a skilled wood worker, you can get hand carved details with the human flaws that make it beautiful and authentic. Another trait of manufactured furniture is weak drawer joints. A skilled cabinet maker will use strong dovetail joints, while the factory worker in China is most likely required to just glue and nail the pieces together. If you wander through a furniture store, you most likely will see very few dovetail joints on even high-end dressers and china cabinets.

Finally, if you already own furniture that you would like to match, the custom cabinet maker can work with what exists to create new pieces that blend in flawlessly with your current decorating treasures. This plan can ensure that, as you add to your rooms, the new pieces will retain the flavor of your décor. Nothing outside your design plan will make its way into your setting.

Although purchasing custom furniture can cost considerable money, in the end, you will own furniture pieces that will live through the ages and, when passed down through the family, become the antiques of the future.

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