What is "rustic" furniture?

Naturally beautiful

Rustic furniture draws together elements of nature - while craftsmen using special tools and inventive designs, create functional furniture that is as appropriate in a backwoods cabin as it is in a contemporary home or office.

Utilizing recycled barn wood and standing trees or twisted juniper roots and willow weavings, rustic furniture makes a personal connection. It evokes a memory of an earlier era when people fashioned their furniture from nature to serve their needs. A distressed appearance of some rustic pieces adds character, charm and a individuality not found in other furniture styles. Rustic furniture is warm, creative, and practical and it speaks to our appreciation of human genius and resourcefulness.

Rustic furniture has a vocabulary associated with it like "peeled and skip-peeled logs", drawknives and spokeshaves, mortise and tenon joinery (see tenon maker), bentwood - and other curious terms employed by the craftsmen who create these one-of-a-kind works of art.

The source for rustic

This Rustic Furniture site is a companion to the Log Furniture Directory, the Internet's largest guide to rustic and log furniture companies. Our database of businesses and individual craftspeople is accessible here. If you are looking for rustic furniture, log and cabin furniture, twig, willow or western furniture and decor products, you will find it at the Log Furniture Directory.

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