Timber Veneers
Features & benefits
of Veneers:
Lifestyle
Furniture is a solid timber specialist and recommends veneers
be used sparingly to enhance structural integrity of furniture
for the following reasons.
Sustainability: Natural
Timber Veneers are beautiful and a very efficient and economical
usage of timber in furniture. High quality timber veneers
in redgum, Blackwood, Jarrah, Victorian Ash and Tasmanian
Oak are used which results in natural grain patterns and
colours. The use of veneers preserves solid timbers for
use in bench
tops, drawer fronts doors and uprights. In a world starting
to focus more on resources, it allows timber usage to
go further.
Stability & Strength: Timber veneers do not move, they do not expand and contract like a natural
timber. Veneer is a strong support material and heavier than timber. For these
reasons the ‘chassis’ of
timber furniture is often made from timber veneer. Other common uses
for timber veneer are door inserts, adjustable shelves, and side panels in
cabinet
furniture.
Lifestyle Furniture is a solid timber specialist and recommends veneers
be used in NON traffic applications. We do not recommend veneers for table
tops,
bench tops, coffee table tops and drawer fronts.
The use of timber veneer is done sparingly for two main reasons:
- Form in the design elements of the furniture.
- To
enhance structural integrity, stability and product longevity.
Veneer
how it is made: Veneer is produced by slicing leaves from
timber logs. The timber
is heated first to prevent the timber leaves from splitting.
Just as timber planks
are cut in different ways to produce types of grain patterns, so too
are
veneer leaves. The leaves are glued together to produce
veneer sheets and then
glued
to MDF or plywood.
5
Year Guarantee: Lifestyle
Furniture has specialised in
timber furniture since 1989.
Here at Lifestyle Furniture we are happy to discuss with you
the use of veneers. Please ask our friendly team to highlight
to
you where veneer is used
in our
display models in store.
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