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Recreate Furniture
Katie Thompson is the well known furniture designer who has an eye for potential where others only see discarded, unusable objects. Perhaps her most well known article and best example of her combination of unbridled imagination and local craftsmanship is her suitcase chair, which is often spotted in many Camps Bay apartments.
She has also used teacups, milk bottles and even an old Hoover, which she has transformed into lamps and saw the potential in an old trolley which is now a useful kitchen island.
Katie graduated from the Design Time School of Design and has worked as an interior designer for the last 8 years. She became known as the ‘Queen of Junk’ at the Cape Town Decorex in 2009 where she won an Excellence Award and the Green Stand Award.
This was perhaps where manyCamps Bay interior designers first heard about Katie Thompson.
The overwhelming response that she received after Decorex proved to be a profitable launch pad for her own interior and furniture design business, which she has aptly named ‘Recreate’. The store has just opened in Woodstock, just across the road from the Old Biscuit Mill where many a Campsbay interior design lover spends their Saturday mornings at the Neighbourhood Goods Market. Woodstock has become a design a suburb for design in Cape Town over the last few years and attracts many trendy Capetonians to its quirky shops.
Furniture made of pine wood
Some good news for those of you in the market for this piece of furniture is that it will be no shortage of them compare to you for the one against the other. The reason is quite simple, a pine wardrobe is a piece of furniture ideal for adding extra storage for your clothing, bedding, linens, etc. In addition, raw Pine Furnitureis very often quite affordable. Of course, like any other item, you will find a wide range of prices. However, because the jaw is considered a soft wood and is growing fairly rapidly, it is almost always significantly cheaper than closets of various sorts made of hardwood.
Some of the best breast-creations were designed by British furniture maker, Thomas Chippendale to include.
Now, would you elaborate bomb reminiscent of the 1700s-era chest of drawers, or beautiful breasts during the reign of Louis XV and XVI. Bomb chests have beautifully curved lines, shapely contours. They are perfect for most of the furniture buyers, the stylish look of the period, which may even want to fit well in a compact dining or entertaining area or a guest room. For a girls room, can inspire a modern chest of drawers in pink and black look and modern and fresh, imaginative ideas and create a feel-good aura.Contemporary styles can also be of different size drawers. For example, some dresser drawer has a large trunk at the bottom, which are with objects such as toys, DVDs or books can be filled. With the weight on the lower center also ensured that heavy objects can be stored safely. A unit of drawerscan also be used using a mixture of materials. For example, different colored woods such as light wood (oak) and dark wood (mahogany) are mixed together and add to character for different styling effects.
Furniture made of pine wood
If you find yourself in the market to buy a new wardrobe pine, there are a few things you should know before you walked into the nearest retail furniture store on. Among the most important things you need to know when looking for the actual size of the dressing room of its own. This is all dependent on the room, you need to use. The last thing you want is something that is too large to fit into your room, or so small that you hardly get to purchase additional storage is no advantage.
Another thing you want to look at the quality of construction. You want to be a close look at all the different parts including doors, hinges, drawers, etc. to work them all lined up properly, correctly, and they give you wont have any problems if you use it to go. The good thing is that you still have a very cheap pine furniture that fit into your budget but that will be functionally sound and will serve you for many years.
Some of the best breast-creations were designed by British furniture maker, Thomas Chippendale to include. Today you’d find elaborate bomb chest reminiscent of the 1700s-era, or beautiful chests during the reign of Louis XV and XVI. Bomb chests have beautifully curved lines, shapely contours. They are perfect for most of the furniture buyers, the stylish look of the period, which may even want to fit well in a compact dining or entertaining area or a guest room. For a girls room, can inspire a modern chest of drawers in pink and black look and modern and fresh, creative ideas and create a feel-good aura.
Bedroom Furniture
It is really odd to think that bedroom furniture has only been a feature in European homes since the 1600s. Before that people lived out of a trunk and many of the poor did so right up until the mid 1800s. They did not need a chest of drawers, because they had no clothes to put in them.
Thankfully times changed and by the early 1900s most people slept on a bed and had at least one change of clothes, which is when, in the UK at least, the bedroom furniture industry was born.
Stand Alone Bedroom Furniture
At first stand alone bedroom furniture was the norm. The must have item was, of course, the bed and once people got a little more money together they would have a clothes chest. These chests fell out of use in time, although many people still have Ottoman chests in their bedroom today they tend to keep bed linen in them.
They were replaced with chest of drawers and things like suits and winter coats were kept hanging on the back of the bedroom door or in a single wardrobe that everyone used.
Over time people got richer and had more suits, coats and long dresses and this is when the use of standalone wardrobes in every bedroom became the norm.
Fitted Bedroom Furniture
Fitted bedroom furniture was to only be found in the homes of the rich until the mid 60s when middle class families began to have them fitted. Nowadays fitted bedrooms are the norm.
Woodworking Furniture
I hope woodworking fans will discover here some useful info about creating woodworking furniture – in particular on woodworking for beginners.
One attribute that excites so many people about working with wood is its artistic power. Many really compare it to playing an instrument, as you create fine art by applying your skills. I would consent with that, however, compared to creating music, woodworking goes even further and is even more gratifying, as the art that is being created, actually lasts.
Unfortunately at times you can see people in the beginning getting really interested excited about woodworking, then however, they realize that there are in fact some basic skills required in order to become a good carpenter. That is, when some people lose their curiosity in this activity. In order to avoid this to happen, it is very important that you get yourself to a good extend informed about the hobby of woodworking.
It does not make sense to start this new hobby that really requires e.g. the purchase of tools and equipment down the road, if you are not certain that woodworking is truly an activity you want to pursue for a longer period of time. So it is truly imperative that you get yourself informed about your soon-to-be new hobby be it through asking friends whether they have any experience in working with wood, or by skimming through a few related magazines during your next bookstore visit.