Friday 27 June 2008

The Oakleigh Furniture Range

The Oakleigh furniture range is a very versatile and popular furniture range available on the market today.

Oakleigh is so popular that the range covers many different furniture aspects. Unlike many ranges which concentrate often on bedroom sets, or dining sets, or even occasional and lounge furnishings; the Oakleigh range covers all of these.

Made from solid ash the Oakleigh furniture range is plain yet stylish and has a very traditional, even country look to it. No furniture items in the Oakleigh Furniture range are veneered and this makes the furniture versatile as it can be varnished, stained, painted or left as it is (which is a fine option as it already looks great). Handles (on those furniture items that have them) are made brushed steel offering a simple yet stylish finish to the items.

The fact that the Oakleigh range covers bedroom furniture, dining room furniture, loung
e and occasional furniture means that you can mix and match the items and create very unique looks. Want a desk for you lounge area? The dressers from the Oakleigh bedroom range are perfect for this use and there are several different styles that will compliment your other Oakleigh furniture. The Oakleigh display cabinets will match perfectly in a bedroom, lounge or hallway. The storage cabinets won’t look out of place in any room with matching Oakleigh furnishings, the possibilities are endless.

Furniturestore247.co.uk offers a huge selection of furniture from the Oakleigh rang
e. We stock bedroom furniture such as beds, wardrobes and bedside tables. We have lounge and occasion furniture such as display cabinets, TV units and storage units and we have dining tables and sideboards.

So if you are looking for a versatile, quality and stylish range of furniture, one which you can tailor to your needs, then check out the Oakleigh furniture range at furniturestore247.co.uk.

Wednesday 25 June 2008

Dining Room Chairs....... Everywhere!

Dining room chairs. They’re very simple and standard piece of dining room furniture; a core part really. If you have a dining room (and yes, some people don’t) then you’re going to have dining chairs and if not well you’re probably going to need them.

So what choices are there out there? Well that’s the thing, there are so many. Assuming you don’t need an entire dining room suite and you have the dining table already and maybe even sideboards, then you need the right chairs to compliment them.

Surely it can’t be that hard though? Well that’s the thing; buying new dining chairs can be easy, assuming you aren’t to concerned what they look like. The thing is almost all of us do care. We all tend to have very specific tastes and want our house to look like our ideal image. So much so that we’ll often not buy that matching dining table and chairs as we only like the look of the dining table, or the dining chairs.

One such influence on why we have these newer ideals is media input. Shows we see on TV demonstrate different ways and styles to make you home look special and unique, or even ways to spiritually harmonise your rooms.

Back to the dining chairs where do we start? Well you have your different materials to start with; wood or metal? If it’s wood are we looking for hardwood, ash, oak, pine beech or something else, even within those there are different types of oak and hardwood, and of course do we want these veneered or natural?

Metal has a few less choices as typically it will be a chrome effect or perhaps a brushed aluminium finish. Of course there are also combinations of metal and wood dining chairs, just to make things more varied.

Then there is the upholstering. It’s rare a dining chair is going to be simply wood or metal. You have various materials such from leather, suede and cotton, to leather-look and faux leather.

Finally the design, do you go for classic, contemporary, modern, retro or something in between? The amount of designs available in dining room chairs in almost limitless, so having an idea of what you want will always help point you in the right direction.

So to sum up, yes it can be daunting finding the right dining chairs, but the reason is because the wealth of choice and having such an open palette to choose from can only be a good thing as it allows you to add that individual stamp to your dining room.

For a vast range of dining chairs visit www.furniturestore247.co.uk. Our stock includes wooden and metal frames, with various styles upholstery (our leather look Guinness Chairs are one of our best sellers and very popular) and chair designs to suit your needs.