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8
Mar

With The Correct Furniture And Lighting You Can Make Any Room Look Like A Million Bucks

   Posted by: Antique Expert    in Antique Furniture

In North America one of the rooms people like to make a statement in is the bedroom. I am talking about the furnishings and lighting arrangement just so you can stay on track. As a prime example; if you use the right Table lamps lighting technique on your bedroom furniture dressers you can fully accent all of the pieces of the entire bedroom in one fell swoop.

The tactic here is to understand the position of the biggest piece in the room and for virtually everyone that piece will be their Bedroom Furniture Beds. This is the one single piece that has the ability to block the most amount of lighting and thereby cause the greatest dead spot areas and shadow spaces. It is rather easy to get rid of this little annoyance if you simply employ the right tactic. Or you can forever stand there moving a lamp 6 inches this way or 12 inches that way never getting rid of all those shadowy dead spots and just generally getting frustrated.

The tactic for doing away with them is very easy and simple. You employ a tactic called crossover lighting. Don’t worry, it’s not at all techie and can be done in just a couple of minutes flat. The perfect example is that most people line up there largest bedroom furniture dressers right in front of the end of their bed, which makes this super easy. You place a table lamp or floor lamp whichever you happen to prefer at the farthest outside areas of the dresser that is lined up with the bed. Or if you are using floor lamps you put them at both ends of the dresser. The trick is that you want them to extend out past the sides of the foot board on your bed.

Then next, you if you’re like most people myself included you will usually have two nightstands one each on opposite sides of the head board end of your bed. You then very simply place a lamp on each of your nightstands. Sounds too easy right? But think about it, you now have diffused light sources on both sides of the bed one source directed from the foot board and another light source directed from the head board region. each of those light sources on each end now cross over each other and you have just learned they interior designer secret of eliminating dead spots with crossover lighting. Wait until you see the results. You will be able to wale all around the bed and the room and should not see any big shadows anywhere at all.

You may discover that if you have a very high tall boy style additional dresser in the room that one area of it may not be perfectly lit. This can be resolved with the positioning of another floor lamp or believe it or not a plug in nightlight style tiny lamp. If you happen to have a wall socket on that side then put a small plug in lamp there and you should be good to go. Be sure that when you’re considering any lighting arrangement that all of your lighting fixtures are UL rated at the highest level for your safety.

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11
Feb

Tricks And Ideas To Enhance Your Bedroom Furniture Shopping Experience

   Posted by: Antique Expert    in Antique Furniture

Here are just a few little neat suggestions to keep in mind when shopping to build your bedroom furniture collections. If you plan on shopping in the used furniture markets where some of the best values can be had then be sure to take a couple of items with you to make the right purchase the first time. If shopping for your beds headboards be sure to take along a non warped, strait yard stick. If you have a challenge finding one that is wooden that is still strait most hardware stores sell the metal variety that will stay strait for years unless you bend them. Also unscrew one of the slot connectors from the end of one of your bed rails and bring that along.

Why? For what purpose do you suggest this? Well, if you plan on buying used wooden furniture one of the big things you will want to check for is warping. The best and easiest way I know of to do this is with a metal yard stick. The technique is very simple. Let’s say the item you’re looking at is one of your bedroom furniture beds. Along the bottom and the sides place the yardstick flush against the edges of the head board along some of its longest areas. If you see any gaps or raised areas that make the yard stick balance like a teeter totter on a kids play ground then chances are you have warping.

Once you find a little warping then you have to decide just how bad it is. I mean if you have a period piece that you’re able to pick up for next to nothing you may have a few things you will have to overlook. Next look at the joints and see if there is the start of any pressure splitting going on. Pressure splitting is when the twisting action of the warping puts so much force and pressure on the wood joint that it starts to slit or crack. Look for dark marks at the corners of the joint where someone may have put a little wood filler in the crack and stained it again. You should be able to notice this as it’s very difficult for even a good woodworker to match old faded stain colors with new ones.

Now for the reason you brought your end connector from your bed rails. If you’re out shopping for a new bed head board there are a lot of instances in the used market where the side rails simply do not come with it or are not even available for purchase even if you wanted too. And depending on a lot of variables such as where the piece was made I.E. which country, what Century it comes from and many more you find it just as variable as to what hardware was used.

Bring your bed rail hardware in and match it up. Most of today’s modern furniture has slots where you simply push a metal tab into the slot and push down to lock it into place. I am quite sure you will not see this very often in the antique market. Usually in that market get ready for some nuts and bolts. Now if your current bed rails do not fit it’s not the end of the purchase. If you really want this piece just search out appropriate rails and fittings or remove your fittings from your current rails and install new ones that will fir this piece. No matter what you want to accomplish there is likely a way to get it done. The used furniture market is only limited by your own imagination and creativity.

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