Wood Type in White Chests of Drawers
When it comes to buying wood furniture, such as chests of drawers, consumers have a wide variety of options. Different woods naturally range in colour from almost white to deep browns that border on black. Though any of these woods can be painted in any colour, matching wood types to the colour of paint that you would like to use requires less paint and saves on a lot of extra work.
If you don’t like the natural wood look, or you have a room where a natural wood appearance just won’t work with the other furnishings, you may be thinking about white bedroom furniture, such as white chests of drawers. In white chests of drawers, the wood is not left in its natural shade, but is painted with enough layers of white paint to cover the wood appearance beneath. This makes a white chest of drawers ideal for a room that has white fixtures, such as closet doors and windowsills, or white furnishings, such as a white bed frame.
In order to paint a chest of drawers white, furniture makers generally rely on light colours of wood, such as pine wood. Unlike woods in darker shades, like cedar or mahogany, light-colored woods, like pine, require only a few layers of paint in order to conceal the colour of the wood beneath. If darker wood shades were used, the painting process would require numerous additional layers and some of the dark wood may still show through the light colouring. So, if you are shopping for a white chest of drawers to match a room with other white pieces, you can bet that you’ll be looking through numerous pine options before you make your selection.
Light-colored solid wood is not the only wood upon which many furniture makers rely. Furniture makers widely use fiberboard in chests of drawers as well. These pressed wood pieces are made of wood bits and commonly make up drawer bottoms even in white drawers otherwise crafted of solid wood.
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