Thursday, July 19, 2012

Furniture is Art

Furniture is considered as art. It is not just modern wallpainting or music that can be tagged as art. Wooden furniture, in fact, mostly is intricately designed with carvings while those with contemporary touch of glasses are shaped and printed or painted.

Those that are posted over the internet as artworks for sale should not be limited to wall paintings and other crafts alone. Major furnishings in the house that largely make up the interior are dining and sofa sets, bedframes, and display cabinets to include TV rack. The rest of what is tagged as artworks are minor accents only although they are considered as valuable items when it comes to price. These are wall paintings, for example. Accents, however, are major determinants of whether the style of the interior is European or that of Asian art. But it would be best too if the furniture will blend with the theme.

If one thinks of Japanese-inspired home and would want to go all the way Japanese to its set of furniture, then you can expect to see tables and chairs that are relatively low as compared to the standard height of other furniture like tables, bed frames, and chairs. If Filipino style is what a person is up to, highly crafted wooden furniture can be best recommended. We talk of aging hardwood here and are indeed very pricey. Those typical Filipino sets of wooden furniture that are pre-loved, damaged with scratches, discoloured would still cost thousands. Have the ones that are upholstered,  licked-finished, and laminated, then you are already asking for an item that will cost you an arm and leg.

When before tables were just meant to be a flat board-like surface with four poles, now they are made to look very stylish yet elegant. The last thing the owner wants to do is to put covers on to it hiding the intricate and artistic details of this piece of furniture which is now a piece of art. We remember our old house with our old dining table which was made to look stylish by putting embroidered or printed covers, not to mention we needed to put a flower vase on the top. And it was only then it was considered as art. Check department stores and furniture boutique or even on websites where people buy art online and imagine the items there placed in your house. With these choices to mix and match, everyone can be an interior designer in their own right. Just put the pieces you grab from the store together and before you know it you already came up with a dressed-up unit without internalizing the fact if you have just created an Asian art inspired house or otherwise.

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