Rattan Wicker Furniture is the Most Popular Kind of Wicker Furniture
Wicker furniture can give you many years of use if properly cleaned and cared for. One of the most popular type furniture used outdoors is wicker furniture. But that does not mean it can not be used as indoor furniture. It is durable, easy to maintain and practical. Even it looks beautiful and gives a sense of warmth.
Generation after generation have used wicker. Why is it so popular? It never stops being attractive and comfortable. This furniture is very versatile and comes in different shapes, colors and sizes. Wicker fits perfectly with any design and suits a wide range of tastes.
What makes wicker so incredible? It is the unique way of its production. Wicker is derived from plant fibers. They have been treated so they have become hard and strong. After that, they can be used for making furniture. Most used plants for producing these fibers are rattan, bamboo, reeds and willows. For making wicker furniture, synthetic fibers which are stronger and more durable than plant fibers also are used. The final product comes as a result of weaving the fibers in to the desired piece of furniture.
Rattan wicker furniture is the most popular kind of wicker furniture. It is among the oldest natural furniture material in use today. Rattan is a kind of palm that grows abundantly in Asia, Africa and Australia. These plants are similar to bamboo, but the difference is in the stems. Rattans stems are solid, while those of bamboo are hollow. This makes rattan more durable compared to other natural materials. It can withstand the forces of nature, so that makes it the ideal choice for outdoor furniture.
Wood furniture has superiority in gaining the elegant and beautiful touch for the living space. Finishing attached to the furniture is one of the main processes affecting the touch of appearance and sustainability.
Finishing is the final layer attached on the surface of the wood. This process aims to provide better aesthetic value in wood furniture, cover up some drawbacks in terms of wood color, texture or quality of the surface resistance of certain materials, to protect the wood from the outside conditions (weather, air temperature, etc.) or a collision with another item to increase endurance and durability of wood products.
Materials and term of application used for wood furniture finishing can vary. There are two types of wood finish based on the kind of material, namely: solid material finish and liquid finish.
Solid finish. This material covers 100 % of the surface of the wood and hides the original look. Physically, the material is formed into sheet or roll and applicable for indoor furniture with the basic material plywood, MDF, hardboard, softboard and other types of sheets.
Liquid finish. There are so many types and variations regarding to liquid finish wood furniture. Its characteristics make it as the most popular used in almost all types of wood furniture. It is more flexible to use than the solid finish, best used for curvy and wide surface, has the same quality on the strength of the broad surface of plywood or MDF. Type of liquid finishing materials that have been used today include oil, nitro cellulose (NC), melamine, polyurethane (PU), but the most popular today is water based lacquer. These finished require thinner oil as liquidator except water based lacquer which uses water.
