Unfinished wood furniture offers savings and custom decorating ideas!

If you're thinking of refurnishing a kid's bedroom, with an eye to updating from a child's room to teen tastes, it can be a pretty expensive proposition. Decorating a nursery for your soon to arrive, new bundle of joy can be pricey, too. What if you need new book cases to accommodate a burgeoning library? A trip to the fancy furniture store can certainly put a damper on your plans. Instead of putting yourself into unnecessary debt, why not take a look at unfinished wood furniture? The money you save can go into your savings account and you still get to spruce up your home nicely!

Much of the cost of new furniture is in the finishing. This work is labor intensive and the price tag naturally reflects this added labor. However, when you go shopping for a study desk for your teen, you may have a hard time finding the right piece that's finished in a stain that matches the rest of the furniture. Maybe you can't find book cases you like in a mahogany stain that matches your office furniture. Unfinished wood furniture is an admirable solution that saves you money and matches your decorating needs.

Another advantage in the unfinished wood furniture market is that you'll find high quality pieces, made with hardwoods and at terrific savings. All you need be willing to do is invest a little time and elbow grease for a perfect match to your existing furniture.

My first venture into the unfinished wood furniture market was in 1990. My daughter was just a year old and I decided that she couldn't have just any ordinary toy box. I wanted an old fashioned, chest style toy box of wood. I wanted her to have a fairy tale original she could pass on to her children. I finally settled on an unfinished, solid oak toy chest, about four feet long and 18 inches wide. Risking unfinished wood furniture heresy, I finished it with a hand painted child's fantasy picture of an all-over design. I used acrylic paints to make a wraparound picture depicting a nature scene of clouds, fanciful animals, birds and trees. Vines wound their way down the sides. This was an exceptional success, not due so much to my artistic talent, but more because the design was an original. I finished the project off with a coat of varathane. She loves her toy chest to this day. She also uses it as a window seat.

My second unfinished wood furniture project was two seven foot high, four foot wide solid mahogany book cases. While comparable finished books sold for twice the price, my unfinished wood furniture, with a couple of days of sanding, staining, re-staining and oiling produced a wall of welcome book cases which perfectly match my living room furniture.

If you're thinking about new furnishings, check out the unfinished wood furniture stores for some terrific and adaptable quality pieces you can stain or decorate for a perfect match to your decorating scheme.