Design on a Budget with Pine Furniture

If you’re looking for that wow factor but are on a strict budget, invest in some basic pine furniture and get creative!

If you love wood, but don’t want to spend a fortune, pine furniture is the solution. Pine furniture tends to be more affordable than the hardwoods like mahogany and oak that are not as sustainable (and therefore rarer and pricier) than pine. And pine furniture still offers you that honey warmth and natural beauty that wood inherently owns. If you want to have a home that screams designer flair and will get your friends green with envy, you can get that wow factor on a budget. Check out or top designer budget tips.

Pine furniture is light and neutral making it amenable and flexible for any kind of design and style. If you want to do something that little big special without breaking the bank consider:

• Creating a feature wall – there are some beautiful, striking, bold and large wallpaper prints out there. But it can be costly to deck the whole room in wallpaper and what’s more it can overpower a room. Wallpaper just one wall as a focal wall (behind a sofa, or where your fireplace is for example).

• If you have beautiful pine furniture, your room will be light and easy to accessorise. Treat your photos and pictures as art by hanging them in creative ways – group frames together, or choose diagonal lines to create a wall feature.

• If you have pale pine furniture you can afford to inject some depth and darkness – opt for dramatic, dark colours in the bedroom but keep to brighter shades in your living space.

• For beautiful one off objects, consider showing them off by putting up a couple of simple shelves to create your own art gallery. Keep it minimal and uncluttered.

• Pine furniture is flexible so you can afford to make a bold statement in your room. You can do this either by investing in a big canvas or painting for an instant impact; spending your money on a designer lamp that adds angles and shapes to your room; or investing in a beautiful designer lampshade. Curtains are another great way to create a statement – if you’ve seen a fabric you love, make it the centrepiece of your room.

• If you have pine furniture in your dining room or kitchen, you can inject colour with carefully chosen accessories. Coloured glassware is a fabulous way of transforming a room adding light and colour – perfect for a lively kitchen.

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Indian Furniture – A Sustainable Choice

Indian furniture is more than just a beautiful choice, it’s a sustainable one too.

If you’re looking for beautiful furniture that adds warmth and beauty to your room, Indian furniture is the right furniture range for you. Indian furniture is crafted from the wood of Indonesia, notably solid Mango wood from sustainable forests. Not only does it tap into the character and spirit of the region, but it’s the right choice to make if you want to make an ethical choice about how you furnish your home.

Indian Furniture – Solid Mango Wood

The solid mango wood used to carve Indian furniture will offer a unique and ethnic character to your home. Mango wood is from the same tree that harvests mango fruit and it is common across South East Asia and Indonesia, with an extensive variety of species in Malaysia. Mango trees offer substantial resources – for their fruit and wood – growing up to 100 feet with trunks as wide as four feet. The wood used for Indian furniture is found at the centre of the tree. Mango wood is coarse with an interlocking grain that adds an individual quality to each piece of Indian furniture.

The Responsible Choice

As a hard and dense wood, the mango tree is perfect source material for crafting Indian furniture – from sturdy beds to solid wardrobes. The wood is treated and seasoned, and the greenish-brown texture is not only easy for furniture makers to work with, it finishes well retraining the diverse shades and hues that make Indian furniture so sought after. Indian furniture can capture the tradition and strength of oak or mahogany, which it often resembles – depending on how the wood is cut to reveal its different grain textures. But unlike most hardwoods like mahogany, mango wood is sustainable and always replanted once cut down. The trees are harvested first for their fruit before used to create Indian furniture, making Indian furniture the responsible choice for consumers.

Indian Furniture – For Sustainability

The mango tree is also prolific across Asia – another reason why it offers a sustainable alternative. The fruit is considered by Hindus to offer sweet, balancing and healing properties. And anyone who experiences the beauty of Indian furniture in their home will tell you about the warmth, elegance and inherent beauty in the wood and of course the styling of Indian furniture.

So whether you are looking for seating, tables or folding patio doors, choose Indian furniture for Eastern style.

Bedroom Furniture – Making the Most of Small Spaces

If you want to buy bedroom furniture for a small room, check out our top design tips.

It’s easy to think beautiful bedroom furniture will transform your bedroom. And it will. But you need to consider one key issue before you buy new bedroom furniture: space. Buying big pieces of bedroom furniture can ruin the feel of a small bedroom. But you still need sufficient bedroom furniture that offers the right storage solutions and meets your needs. Check out our top interior design tips on how to maximise a small space:

• One piece of bedroom furniture you should invest in is a mirror – whether it is in-built mirrors in your wardrobe or individual mirrors for your wall. Mirrors help reflect and bounce light and create the illusion of a much bigger space.

• Opting for light bedroom furniture will help – aim for pale woods like pine – to help create a light, bright space. Add colour with fabrics and accessories.

• Lead the eye – if you continue the same flooring in your bedroom to the hall or adjacent room, the eye will naturally move to the space beyond giving the impression of more space. Visual tricks can help small spaces appear larger; always make sure the ceiling in your bedroom is a lighter shade than the walls and keep your walls light and neutral, dark colours can make the walls ‘close in’.

• Some designers opt for tall objects to help elongate a bedroom – tall bed posts or tall bedside lamps for example – or striped paper or blinds to make the room seem taller.

• As well as keeping your bedroom furniture light, opt for neutral toning with your décor and invest in reflective accessories such as bejewelled bedspreads to help the light bound around the room.

• Heavy curtains may keep the light out, but they can drown a small bedroom. Blinds will help lift the space.

• You need good bedroom furniture, but invest in good key pieces – a spacious wardrobe for example rather than lots of different storage facilities. Double up a chest of drawers to work as a bedside table so you don’t overcrowd your room with too much bedroom furniture.

• Get good lighting – a tall vertical floor lamp for example will help emphasise the vertical effect of a room and draw the attention to its corners, making the room seem bigger.

Clever storage helps – clutter will crowd a small room strangling the space and light. Under the bed solutions can help with linen boxes to store extra shoes, clothes or linen.

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Indian Furniture – Capture the Spirit

 

If you want to inject some real spirit into your home, check out the bespoke Indian furniture range.

Indian furniture is distinctive for its beautiful dark natural wood. If you are looking for a bed that really dominates your bedroom, Indian furniture is the choice for you. Whether it’s the New Dakota Kingsize bed featuring inlaid panels and solid wood slats, the Indy Tiger Sleigh Bed with its big bold contemporary lines built from solid mango wood or the award-winning Indy Provence range with sturdy design and polished fruit wood panels, Indian furniture offers a timeless and elegant style that is at once traditional and majestic – perfect for a classic or contemporary setting.

Indian Furniture – The King of Furnishings

From the majesty of the Mah Haraja Indian bed to the rustic charm of the Java Natural Bed made from eco-friendly solid mango wood, there’s a piece of Indian furniture perfect to fit your style. The mango is known as the ‘King of fruit’. Legend has it that a Buddhist monk found tranquillity and repose in a mango grove – and the monks introduced the mango from East India and Burma to Malaysia and eastern Asia. The mango tree is used as the source material for a range of Indian furniture thanks to its inner beauty and strength. In India, some believe the mango tree is a symbol of love and that it can even grant wishes. For Hindus, fresh mango leaves are hung outside their front doors during the Hindu New Year as a blessing to the home. And the leaves are hung outside the homes of newlyweds to encourage fertility. It isn’t surprising that such a sacred tree offers such beautifully unique Indian furniture.

Mango Magic

Across the south east of Asia, traditionally nobles and kings cultivated private mango groves. The mango trees were seen as a source of pride and social status. As well as mango wood being sought after today to carve distinctive Indian furniture, the whole of the mango tree is used and valued. Apparently, Sanskrit poets believed chewing on mango buds gave sweetness to their voice. And of course, while mango wood may make beautiful furniture, the fruit is bursting with vitamin C and vitamin A – it’s estimated over 20 million metric tons are grown throughout the tropics and sub-tropics, from Malaysia to Pakistan, Thailand to China, Peru to Mexico.

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Pine Furniture – Time to Lighten up

If you live in a small or dark house, lighten things up – invest in pine furniture.

It can be difficult coping with small rooms – especially bedrooms that require big furniture like beds and wardrobes. The risk is the furniture will be out of balance with the room, making it look even smaller and darker. But there is a solution – pine furniture is light and stylish, so it won’t swallow all the light in the room.

Pine Furniture – The Stylish Solution

If you love the natural beauty of wood but don’t want the heavy veneer – pine furniture is perfect for you. White or cream furniture can look a little stark in some settings, but pine adds the warmth you want while still keeping your room bright.

If you are desperate to lift a dark or oppressive room in your home, pine furniture can be used throughout for a consistent and light feel. Also consider keeping your colour scheme light and neutral using creams or pale pastels for example. You don’t have to banish heavy colours – in fact introducing vibrant colours with accessories such as throws and cushions is a great way to add flair to a light room. If it’s your bedroom that you’re trying to inject a little life into, as well as pine furniture, opt for bed linen and cushions that shimmers or has reflective qualities.

Visual Tricks to Lighten Your Home

Patterns on the wall or carpet can make a room feel even more closed and small. But a light, bright mural or one feature wall in a room can add attention and life without overpowering the room. As well as pine furniture, consider investing in glass furniture where appropriate – a glass coffee table for example – or a see through bed frame rather than a solid bed frame to help the light move more freely around a room.

Let the Light in

If you do want patterns or wallpaper in your living room for example, wallpaper with a white background will help keep the room light. Curtains add warmth and depth to a room but if your room is particularly small, consider investing in blinds that allow light through it. If you must have curtains, make sure they have holdbacks to keep them clear of the windows by day and allow as much natural light as possible into your home. Or as an alternative to curtains consider plantation shutters to add some character to your windows.