Real Oak Furniture

Buy Oak Furniture Online!

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Here at Real Oak Furniture you can find a wide variety of quality oak and mango furniture, including bedroom furniture and solid oak dining and living room furniture. All of the furniture that is on offer is hand made by our skilled craftsmen with traditional methods with a twist of contemporary styling.

Whether its quality furniture for your bedroom, dining or living room, Real Oak Furniture has the furniture you need, all affordable with free delivery to a room of your choice. We literally have everything you need to fill your house with amazing solid wood furniture.

With all of our furniture made from solid wood you know it will last for years to come. Each piece of furniture will add beauty and aut

henticity to every room you decide to place the furniture. All with great designs all of Real Oak Furniture has traditional designs to a modern cube design, all great for any home. Our prices are simply unbeatable for solid wood furniture, all of our furniture you can buy now and get delivered in a matter of weeks. With free delivery as well why look anywhere else.

Solid Oak Dresser Treasure

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So, we all have somewhere in our homes that we stash all our bits and bobs in. Those bits and bobs that we could say remain homeless - well imagine what treasures could be unearthed if we was to go and see every single solid oak dresser in the UK? I recently went to my Grandma's and found a hive of hidden gems and historical artefacts.

Amongst the pins, pens, odd bits of plastics and other various junk I found a three pence coin, dating back to 1942. Not quite sure how it survived this long, but I do know my Nan has had that solid oak dresser since god knows when, well before I was even conceived. See that's the beauty of a good solid oak dresser, they can store junk, to become future treasures.

Oak Bedroom Furniture

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Oak furniture is being sold all over the UK. You can find oak bedroom furniture online and in stores. Some sell solid oak furniture, others sell flat pack furniture made from MDF and other wood imitations. There are warehouses full of stock which you can select from right price furniture, they are discounted prices and are made from solid oak and solid wood.

The different styles that right price furniture have to offer is wide spread. Such as a rustic or contemporary style, the selection of oak bedroom furniture may seem cheap priced for the quality of the furniture but you can buy sets of furniture today.

Oak Furniture

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With Right Price Furniture having a warehouse based near Swindon in the UK, their Distribution Centre comprises two 100,000 square foot warehouses which has an abundance of solid oak furniture in their warehouse. For example they have a great selection of oak bookcases at cheap prices, which for solid oak is pretty much a steal.

You buy these items in a rustic oak reclaimed style or even in a light oak with a modern, contemporary style. They have a great selection of rustic and reclaimed furniture such as the

Country Rustic Range, Jaipur Range, the York Range and others on their site.

Right Price Furniture must be one of the best suppliers of oak furniture in the UK, all of their furniture is made from solid oak, no veneers or soft wood are used in any of their furniture. The oak bedroom sets which they have on offer at cheap prices are great as well, after a quick search you will be able to find that you will be able to find and match up an entire bedroom set made from solid oak.

Not to forget their offer on light oak furniture as well, again all made from solid oak. The modern, contemporary style light oak furniture can be found on right price furniture's website at cheap prices which can be delivered to your door at no extra charge.

Solid Oak Furniture

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You can find a huge amount of sites online which sell furniture, but not many like Right Price Furniture sell Solid Oak Furniture, they have an array of bedroom, dining and living room furniture for you to select from.

For amazing quality they offer Solid Oak Furniture at cheap prices, they only source their oak from specialist hardwood merchants and their quality control ensures only the finest cuts are selected. There's not an inch of veneer anywhere in their furniture, because they believe the quality should run throughout just not on the surface!

To enhance the beauty of the oak timbers used a rich oil is used to finish the item and bring out the unique patterns of the grain. Whether you have a modern household or a more traditional styled home, the oak furniture which Right Price Furniture sell is ideal for both, its timeless appeal and sense of style will never go out of fashion. You can also get a great selection of light oak furniture and you can also find their dark wood and rustic ranges.

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Real Solid Oak Furniture

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With a huge selection of furniture available Real Solid Oak Furniture is a hardwood which is very popular. It comes in many different styles, Distressed Rustic Oak design is one of the most popular.

When buying Real Solid Oak Furniture there is furniture out there which may look the real deal, but is in fact a veneer. Veneer is thin layer of wood glued onto the panel of wood. Some consumers do actually prefer this look as there are no knots or imperfections as with real oak there can sometimes be that as its a natural product ... but in my opinion this adds extra beauty and character to the piece.

Real Solid Oak Furniture can be lacquered, vanished, waxed, oiled and even painted. With there being so many different options in how the oak furniture can look, theres no doubt you will be able to find a piece of furniture that fits the bill to what you need.

When you say "oak" you usually think of clean cut lines and a very contemporary style. But with there now being some many designs, painted oak is now very popular as well distressed oak furniture. All these different styles can be found on rightpricefurniture.co.uk they have an extensive selection of furniture available on their website.

Real Solid Oak Furniture is by far one of the best real wood products you can get on the market. Its tough and durable, ready for the means of everyday life. With products having dovetailed joints and tongue and groove bases to the drawers and backs of the carcases this makes the furniture even more robust.

Hope this helps you looking for Real Solid Oak Furniture

Cheap oak furniture

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If you're looking for really solid, hand-made oak furniture, made from English oak that is well seasoned there is a place to buy it at reasonable prices. Where?

Well sadly, you'll find it at your local Church or Chapel. The Anglican, Roman Catholic and Non-Conformist churches in Britain all enjoyed a huge rise in support during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Many new places of worship were built and many older ones lavishly refurbished. Much of this work was undertaken by local craftsmen and resulted in some beautiful Church furniture, usually made in oak and other high grade timbers.

Now that the country has turned its back on established religions, attendances at Christian places of worship are falling. Some places are closing and others are having the pews replaced with modern, movable seating to make more flexible use of the space. If you want some real oak furniture and you can get to the Church before the salvage companies, you might be able to acquire a Church pew or similar at a knock-down price. A local carpenter should be able to modify a 15 foot pew to something more mangeable in size for a modest sum (especially if they keep the surplus timber).

Personally I am uncomfortable with using furniture from a sacred place so, for people like me, the alternative is to seek out one of the good quality ranges of oak furniture from companies like Right Price.

Finding the cheapest oak furniture

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Back in the 80s and 90s, the buzzword for politicians was choice. We had to have more choice about everything. Well this is OK - up to a point. Anyone who has tried to order a coffee in an American diner will know that simply asking for coffee is not enough. In a relentless effort to be the best, your retailer has to interrogate you about what type of coffee, how you want it made, how much you want and goodness knows how much more besides.

Why can't we just recognise that most people want just one, or at most two simple options, together with the knowledge that they can ask for something different if required? This issue of choice has become something of a problem with searching for oak furniture on the internet. There are now 2.9 million results for the search term - at one second per site and working around the clock without stopping, it would take 34 days to look at all the results.

OK, the solution to finding the cheapest oak furniture is to a) be very specific about what kind of oak furniture you're after and b) choose from a website that is well established and appears to have a trustworthy reputation. Don't be tempted to buy from websites that don't have contact addresses or a showroom where products (and staff) can be seen.

Oak Furniture Prices

2010-05-06T02:27:00.000-07:00

Well you don't expect me to say they're going to go down do you? Seriously, if you've been thinking about buying good quality oak furniture, then do so now - while you still can. Prices of oak furniture have already risen by between 10 and 20% this year. This has been due to a rise in the cost of fuel oil for shipping, the weakness of the Pound against other currencies and greater domestic market competition for the output from the factories in the Far East.

There are no signs that any of these factors are going to be halted or reversed soon and, when the new government (of whatever political colour) takes over and the inevitable cuts in public spending begin to bite, then the furniture industry will look at lower specifications and poorer quality furniture in order to maintain or further reduce prices and stay in business.

Finding the same quality of oak furniture that is currently available will become harder and or more expensive so, if you can afford it, buy it now.

Where to find real oak furniture

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Recent surveys show Google ranks the top 3 companies for oak furniture as Oak Furniture Land, Solid Oak Warehouse and Right Price Furniture. Apart from selling different products, each of these companies has their own characteristics.

Oak Furniture Land is easily the biggest operation, covering everything from manufacture and shipping through to retail. This allows it to cut out the middle man and provide the ultimate pile-it-high/sell-it-cheap operation. My only reservation is that its products are only on sale direct through the internet - it has just opened its own showroom, but this is the only place where products can be examined by the public.

Solid Oak Warehouse has been around for a while and their unique advantage is they they will make furniture to order, which is great if you're looking for a piece for that awkward corner or difficult alcove - but expect to pay for the privilege. Another thing to note is that 'Normal' delivery for items already in stock is quoted as 8 weeks, while expect to wait up to 3 months for bepoke items.

The third company, Right Price Furniture, states that it only sells branded furniture ranges from recognised manufacturers. The advantage of this for customers is that the products are a known quantity. One of its suppliers CPW for example, regularly has its products featured in lifestyle magazines and all of Right Price Furniture's suppliers also supply independent High Street retailers across the country, so customers have a better opportunity to see before they buy.

The higher volumes sold by Right Price Furniture allow it to sell at low prices that compare well with Oak Furniture Land and, unlike Solid Oak Warehouse, it usually aims to deliver within 4 to 6 weeks.

So there you have it: cheap and quick, slow and expensive, or established quality at lowest prices...

What to look for when buying Oak Furniture

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This is a tip when looking to buy Oak Furniture, always have an eye out for the words veneer.

A veneer is a thin layer of wood glued onto panels of another wood. This isn't the end of the world when buying Oak Furniture as it very much depends on the make up of those panels.

It's not uncommon for it to be applied to Solid Ash which is a hardwood but manufactures can save a fortune by applying it to say an MDF and calling it Oak. One of the tricks of the furniture trade is to describe an item as 'made from Solid Oak and Veneer'.

As a consumer you should check the exact nature of these veneers.

In an odd twist though sometimes having a veneer is highly desirable. Lets say for example the core structure of a dining table is all solid oak sometimes expansion is an issue in furniture.

In this case having a veneer in the centre of the table allows for expansion and as a result will last longer.

A great time of year for oak furniture

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Its strange, but there do seem to be seasons when different types of furniture seem more er, well, right than others. For example, in the spring or perhaps early summer, think of sunshine the seaside and holidays and surely fresh white painted furniture springs to mind.

Think of walking the hills on crystal clear, frosty mornings in the winter before stopping off in the local pub for a quick snifter and a warm through in front of the log fire and surely the furniture that springs to mind is real oak furniture. I'm not talking about veneered chipboard but the kind of solid, sturdy pieces that have an air of strength and reliability about them. The use of oak furniture is ingrained in the British way of life - like roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, cricket and rugby or the Palace of Westminster.

It doesn't have to be the dark, smoke-blackened Elizabethan pieces imitated by the Victorians, it can be light-coloured oak furniture in contemporary styles. Just as long as its made from that wonderful, ubiquitous, beautiful timber, oak. If you're a fan of oak furniture or think you'd like to get to know more about oak furniture, then visit the website of Right Price Furniture. They're one of the UK's top online retailers of oak furniture and Right Price Furniture also has a showroom at its headquarters in Bridgend, South Wales

Don't forget to look at Pine furniture as well...

2009-11-25T04:16:00.000-08:00

At the weekend I was looking at some pine furniture and it was like meeting an old friend I hadn’t seen for some time. I’d forgotten just how new pine furniture can be so fresh and natural – add a few pebbles and some sisal rope and it feels like the seaside, but add a thick rug and a blazing log fire and it feels like a cabin in the mountains.

For a great choice of pine furniture in traditional and contemporary styles I’d look for pine furniture on Right Price furniture’s website. They have dozens of ranges of genuine solid pine furniture and Right Price Furniture is now one of the biggest and most trusted online furniture retailers in the UK.

Getting Great Home Office Furniture

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If you do a lot of work at home, you may need to set up a home office. There are many advantages to this. If you do all of your work at home, this gives you a dedicated work space. It’s much better to have all of your work-related items in one space instead of spread about your dining room table or cluttering up one corner of your bedroom. A home office, however, does require you to purchase new furniture, and some of that furniture can be somewhat expensive.

The first thing you’ll need, obviously, is a good sized desk. No home office is complete without one. While you can purchase a small dining table to use as your desk, these tables don’t feature drawers or other useful storage options. There are many different types of desk available. If you are looking for good, solid desks, you may want to look at oak furniture office collections. Here, you’ll find high quality desks that are going to hold up over many different years. You’ll find these desks can hold just about everything you’ll ever need. Likewise, pine furniture is a good option for your home office. Pine will fit in with any style, making it look great. It’s a good choice if you’ll have clients visiting your home office.

Deciding which kind of wood you want to have your desk made out of is only one small decision, though. You may first want to decide what style of desk to get. There is the standard rectangular desk with drawers on both the left and the right. This traditional desk worked very well before computers, but today, unless you get a fairly deep desk, you may not have much room after you get your CPU, monitor, and keyboard on the desk.

As an alternative, there are many different desks built specifically for computers. Some of these replace one set of drawers with a small, low to the floor shelf for your CPU. Others have a raised area on the top for your monitor or a pull out drawer designed for your keyboard and mouse. Some desks even include built-in CD holders or USB ports that you can connect to your computer.

You might even want to go for a large curved desk. These desks provide a lot of flat surface space. You can set up your computer just about anywhere on your desk, although some desks have keyboard drawers attached to the curved section. This gives you plenty of room to put a printer, a file sorter, and much more on the desk. Even with all of this, you may still have one part of the desk clear to use for writing or other projects.

No matter what type of desk you purchase, you’ll need some extras. You will probably want a book shelf or two. You might have the option of purchasing a hutch or small filing cabinet with your desk, which can be very useful. Just be sure you don’t go overboard—you don’t want to crowd your office with too much furniture.

Oak or Pine for the Bedroom – the Decision is Yours

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If you are considering buying new bedroom furniture, you may be wondering if you should go with the classic oak furniture (which is more durable, but also more expensive) or the more readily available pine furniture (which is usually less elaborate, and is also considerably less of an investment). The ultimate decision will lie with you and what you think will work best in the room where the furniture is going. However, if you are uncertain about which type of bedroom furniture you should buy, here are a few different things that you can take into consideration.

First, is the bedroom furniture going to be primarily for an adult’s room, or a child’s room? While this may not seem like it would make that big of a difference, the truth is that this is should be one of your first considerations when looking at bedroom furniture options. For example, you would not want to buy expensive oak bedroom furniture set for a relatively small child because while the furniture is in their care it could become damaged. Children often like to draw and colour on objects, and if they are playing rough in their room, they might even break or crack a piece of the oak bedroom furniture. This would be expensive to repair.

Most commonly people who are looking for bedroom furniture for small children opt to go with the less expensive option of pine. This way if anything does happen to the pine furniture, you are not going to have to worry about repair costs as the bedroom furniture will not have been that large of an investment. In a few years it is likely that you will be able to upgrade the pine bedroom furniture to something else, but when they are young pine furniture is what is recommended.

A second consideration is how will the bedroom furniture match the rest of the surroundings? If you have a newer, more modern bedroom, then you will probably want to go with unfinished pine so that you can paint and decorate it to match the surroundings. However, if you have a very elaborately decorated bedroom, then you will most likely want to go with oak bedroom furniture. While it is true that buying oak furniture is somewhat of a considerable investment, it is also a piece of bedroom furniture that can work to ultimately enhance its surroundings. You would not want to put a “Plain Jane” piece of bedroom furniture in a room that has crown mouldings and elaborate decorations unless you were going for a very specific look in which none of the pieces of bedroom furniture matched.

Finally, you have to know what kind of bedroom furniture is going to work best for your needs. If you are not in the most stable situation, then you probably wouldn’t want to invest in oak bedroom furniture. Oak furniture is a lot more elaborately designed and has quite a few more options than pine furniture traditionally does, but there are equal reasons as to why each of these types of wood would work well in your home.

Trading Standards Investigate Oak Furniture Supplier

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The increasingly fierce competition for business amongst furniture retailers could, it seems, be descending into the realms of the illegal. It has been reported that Trading Standards Officers are investigating claims that the Norfolk furniture retailer Pine Solutions is passing off products as coming from West Country-based company Devonshire Pine Ltd. when they are in fact lower quality products imported from elsewhere.

Over the years Devonshire Pine has earned a good reputation amongst furniture retailers and consumers for its oak furniture ranges, including the Devonshire New Solid Oak range. Pine Solutions, until recently a Devonshire Pine stockist, has started selling what it describes as ‘New Devon Oak’ furniture. The styling is similar to Devonshire New Solid Oak products although the prices are significantly lower.

These activities have caused confusion amongst customers and concern for retailers. “Customers think they are getting the genuine item at a discount price, but when they take delivery, the lower grade of finish and generally poorer quality lead them to think that Devonshire Pine Ltd is no longer producing the sort of quality on which it has built its reputation,” said one retailer. “In the long term both the stockists of the genuine Devonshire Pine Ltd ranges and their customers will suffer if this problem is left unchecked.”

Customers are advised to check with Devonshire Pine Ltd to ensure the retailer is an official stockist. Points to look for on the non-genuine furniture include drawer bases, drawer runners and cabinet backs not being made from oak, a generally poorer finish and the use of lower grade Chinese Oak for construction, rather than the American Oak used in Devonshire Pine Ltd’s products. One of Devonshire Pine Ltd’s leading online retailers is Right Price Furniture.

Real Oak Furniture History

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Investing in furniture made of oak is more than just an appreciation of quality: it means becoming part of a tradition which has its roots in the earliest recorded history of the British Isles. This website summarises this huge and fascinating topic and offers advice on the choices of oak furniture available today.

Characteristics of Oak

The Common Oak (Quercus Robur) is a slow growing hardwood tree that is most suited to damp, fertile soils. These are found in many parts of the UK. Its distinctive leaf shape and acorns make it one of the most easily recognised trees in the British Isles. The oak (Quercus) family is a large and diverse one however, and different species of oak can be found in America, Europe, Asia and the Far East.

The typical characteristics of oak are its toughness and durability. This made it indispensible for almost all types of construction, from wagons, to ships to the main structural elements of buildings. In addition to its toughness and utility, oak also has an attractive grain pattern, particularly when the timber is sawn to show off the silver flecks caused by the medullary rays in the growing tree. These attributes make it particularly attractive for use in furniture making.

For more information about trees of the British Countryside follow this link to the Woodlands Trust at http://www.british-trees.com/

Early oak furniture

The earliest reports of oak furniture used in Britain date from around the Norman Conquest and the end of the Dark Ages. These describe massive tables of simple, rough construction, settles (high backed bench seats) and simple benches.

Such furniture would typically have only been the property of the upper classes and any chairs that existed were exclusively the preserve of society’s leaders. Indeed, this association of furniture with the leaders of society began a precedent which survives today in English phrases such as chairman, coming before the bench (of magistrates) and being a member of the board (those privileged to sit around the table or board rather than squatting in the shadows).

It is interesting to note that sitting at a table to eat, rather than on the floor, was an invention of the Roman occupying forces and was probably viewed by the native population as something to which they should aspire. Hence the importance of the table in post-Roman Britain – even giving birth to the round tables of Celtic chieftains, subsequently personified in the King Arthur legends.

During the next 500 years or so, oak furniture developed in both variety and sophistication in Britain. Simple wooden boxes or chests were constructed to store various items of value including weapons, money and linen. The addition of a simple drawer to the base of the chest gave rise to the mule chest, which became the forerunner of today’s chest of drawers, while standing the chest upright lead to the development of the wardrobe and in France the armoire – originally an armoury for holding weapons.

Finishing and carving of pieces developed and there are many fine examples of carved Tudor oak furniture to be seen in museums and private collections around the country.

For more information about buildings and furniture of the period, try English Heritage at www.english-heritage.org.uk or the National Museum of Wales’ open air museum at St Fagans near Cardiff on www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans

The Restoration of the Monarchy

The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 had significant consequences for the kind of heavy oak furniture that had developed in Britain to this point. Charles II and his court had been living in Europe where they acquired a taste for the much lighter style of Continental furniture. Whereas traditional English furniture had been made of heavy oak held together by joints fastened with wooden pegs, the new furniture used glue to fasten its joints and was decorated with veneers of walnut and other unusual woods.

Six years into his reign the Great Fire of London gave an added impetus to this change of style. Rich Londoners whose property had been lost in the fire commissioned replacement furniture in the new Continental style. As it happened, many of the cabinet makers commissioned to make replacement pieces were immigrants who had escaped religious persecution on the Continent. Consequently they were already familiar with this latest fashion.

The Georgian and Regency periods

If oak’s virtual monopoly on British furniture had been dented by the change in style following the Restoration, the arrival of the Georgian period and famous furniture makers such as Thomas Chippendale threatened to relegate it to the history books. Tropical hardwoods, particularly mahogany, became the furniture timber of choice for the most fashionable in society. Oak was still used for lesser furniture and cabinet work but its pre-eminence was gone, lost amidst the sea of russet, titian and cherry hues that established a lasting popularity.

Several relevant places of interest are in the ownership or care of the National Trust, whose website can be found here http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/

The Victorian period and Church furniture

The phenomenal success of Britain during the reign of Victoria created the largest empire the world has ever seen. One of the effects of this was that people began to wonder how this had been achieved and looked to their history for answers. This in turn led to a huge revival of interest in Britain’s history and spawned the gothic revival style. Part of this was a renewed interest in heavy, solid oak furniture carved in a medieval fashion.

Another feature of the period was an increased concern for the welfare, both physical and moral, of the general population. One way this found expression was a massive expansion in the building of new churches and chapels throughout the country and in the restoration and refurbishment of existing places of worship.

The timber of choice for the vast quantities of church furniture being built was, once again, oak. Today many fine examples of the skills of the Victorian furniture maker and wood carver can be seen and enjoyed in churches and chapels around the country.

A group dedicated to the preservation of Victorian buildings and interested in this period is the Victorian Society, which can be found at www.victorian-society.org.uk Those interested in buying antique furniture from the Victorian and Georgian periods can follow the sales of their local auction houses or the large auction houses such as Christies or Sotheby’s. There are also a number of antiques dealers with very good websites, such as Richard Gardner at http://www.blogger.com/www.richardgardnerantiques.co.uk and Driscolls at http://www.driscollsantiques.co.uk/

Contemporary oak furniture

The carnage of the First World War decimated Britain’s woodlands. Oak stocks were particularly badly affected as the timber was used for building and shoring up the trenches scarring the landscape of France. This in turn led to the foundation in 1919 of the Forestry Commission, charged with safeguarding Britain’s strategic timber reserves. The Commission’s website can be found at http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

Oak furniture of the inter war years tended to be lighter in weight, dark in colour (thanks to an abiding affection for the Tudor/medieval period) and minimalist in style.

The further depredations of the Second World War (when manufacturing wooden furniture was, for a brief period, illegal) meant that stocks of every kind of material were in short supply in post-war Britain. The conifer woodlands of Scandinavia made up the shortfall in timber and for some 30 years, pine furniture and Scandinavian-influenced design, were pre-eminent in the British furniture market.

Since the 1980s however, the almost innate love of the British for oak furniture, has seen a return to popularity of such pieces. There are a number of cabinet makers around the country producing hand made oak furniture in a wide range of styles, including the Queen’s nephew, Viscount Linley (whose furniture website is at www.davidlinley.com ). The offerings from these cabinet makers range from faithful reproductions of past designs to the most avant-garde items styled to bring out the natural style and beauty of the wood. Some of this furniture is beautiful but much of it is beyond what many people can afford.

Of much wider appeal are the commercially available ranges of furniture made of oak from various parts of the world and usually assembled overseas for import in the UK. As with all products there are variations in quality of design and construction, but there is no doubt that there is a bewildering choice of styles and finishes.

Colours can range from a light golden oak through mellow fawns to deep rich brown. Styles may be traditional, distressed rustic, ‘retro’ or follow the simple styling and clean lines that characterise modern designs. A typical example of an online retailer supplying contemporary oak furniture throughout the UK is Right Price Furniture, whose website can be found at Right Price Furniture