Wood office furniture – what to look out for when buying?
Question by Linda: Wood office furniture -- what to look out for when buying?
I'm moving in to a new office and I'm looking to finally make it the way I want to. I choose the colors, materials everything. So I have a question about the furniture -- I decided to go with wood office furniture. What should I look out for? How to choose, where to buy? Any tip would be helpful.
Thanks
Best answer:
Answer by leichenteilchen
Get solid wood. Anything made of particle board or crap like that is full of formaldehyde and God knows what else, bad for your health as it off gasses for years. Plus it's much weaker and uglier than real wood.
Just look for well built stuff.
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Good choice. Solid wood will last you years and years. Basically, choose whatever suits you most. If you like more modern style offices, go for clear, simple lines. If you are more of traditional type, there are really nice pieces of antique furniture you can find online.
Make sure you visit Amazon for user reviews. You can find objective comments there, because people aren’t going to make everything pink and perfect there if the product is not good. Also, consider buying online. It’s easy and secure.
If you like light colors of walls, go for darker tones of furniture, if you have bright colored walls, white furniture is nice. Some guy who’s interior decorator opened a website about this at so check it out for some useful info there. He also talks about maintaining furniture and other related stuff.