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You want furniture that's affordable but also built to last. Here's how you figure that out.

What to look for:

1. Know your wood types. Wood furniture falls into three categories:

• Solid wood furniture is typically more expensive than other types and looks great, but can be susceptible to scratches and water rings.
• Veneers have an inexpensive

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Kitchen trends change almost every year in order to have a kitchen that remains timeless and elegant you need to take a few things into consideration before you set out on designing the perfect kitchen.

1. Trends come and go so it is very important not to follow a specific trend if you want your kitchen to remain timeless.

2. Warm ...

Memory Foam is a heat sensitive, visco-elastic polyurethane foam originally developed in the 1970's by a Swedish company (Tempur-Pedic®) for NASA. NASA was interested in this "memory foam" because of its ability to distribute pressure across an entire surface.

This eases the extreme G-forces that astronauts experience during take-off and landing. Memory ...

AbleNook is the only rapidly deployable portable structure comprised of interlocking components which can be assembled by unskilled laborers in a short period of time (without tools!). These components are shipped flat-packed in order to maximize the number of families who are helped in disaster areas, while reducing transportation costs.

Researchers Sean Verdecia and Jason ...

„Maffam Freeform” is the only workshop in the world manufacturing furniture from volcanic basalt fibre.

The talented Latvian designer Raimonds Cirulis has created and patented a unique furniture manufacturing technology. He builds the furniture from basalt fibre “hairs” and natural resin; he creates the furniture and design objects that cannot be found anywhere else in the ...

The project started in a small design workshop at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

LL STOL is a very simple, elegant and multi-functional lounge chair. It consist of two identically “L” shaped elements that can be easily folded and stored in a small space. You can also assemble small table or bench and with more elements even a bookshelf or a landscape. Assemby ...