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10 Wood Types for Your Interior Design
9-11 minutes Let the countdown of fine woods commence! Discover ten amazing lumber attributes that once installed in your home will help unlock the greatest potential a room can display. From its unique knots and grains to stunning colors, what would our home be without wood? View in gallery Kitchen with white cabinets and wood tone island by Works Photography Inc. There are two categories of wood when it comes to the hundreds upon hundreds of species of forestry: Nature
Vs Man Made. The first being the origins of all the wood surfaces in our home. From the pine tree with its strong Christmas roots, to the imported Brazilian cherry, the natural element of a wooden floor or china cabinet, even something as simple as framed artwork in reclaimed lumber is always a great facet of our motif. The species of wood that requires sun, soil and water is a choice that is sometimes made for us, but no matter your style, the era you are recreating there is a place for the uprooted wood planed to perfection for our décor and homes. The other wood category has fewer species, but all bear remarkable resemblance. These woods are commonly known as Hollywood, Bollywood and even Lolly and Nollywood. These superficial wood kingdoms have erected more than cinema and entertainment. They have proposed a new standard for living of luxury, decadence and breathtaking beauty. But here’s a little known fact; you can converge these two wooden categories and open your doors to Hollywood approved and sanctioned wood. These ten harvested woods can take your room from bland and expected to pieces of art that both our eyes and hands will appreciate.
1. Oak Wood
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positive use for the acorn other than as artillery and ammunition used by my friends and family in our adolescence.
2. Cedar Wood
View in gallery Minimalist kitchen stools in solid cedar wood Perhaps we are most intimately acquainted with this wood as a great closet and chest material for its successful deterrent abilities against moths and other insects and odor destroying causes. Since cedar has a wide variety of trees that are dispersed sporadically, geographically speaking, there are so many purposes to this sweet scented tree in shades of red and reddish brown tones that are used for fencing, house structuring, shingles, guitars, even shipbuilding. So come stink bug or high seas, cedar has the dexterity to stand strong. (Napa stools by usona)
3. Padauk Wood
View in gallery Padauk Wood kitchen countertop Originating only from the Pterocaprus species in Asia or Africa this hardwood, though heavy and dense responds well to the tender ministrations of a lathe. Padauk is
View in gallery Modern white kitchen with walnut cabinets by Ilija Mirceski Ah, how sweet are your seeds, dear walnut tree! And how equally and esteemed are you when you grace the floor beneath our feet, or the rocking chair we lull our babies to sleep upon and of course how harmonic are you when you are formed into a piano. View in gallery
Ultra modern walnut flooring by Elite Metalcraft Walnut is grown in different countries and climates thus have many different shades and temperaments, but is often acknowledges as a dependable wood neither expanding or shrinking, as another wood would do in normal circumstances. Which is a good thing considering that airplane propellers are structured out of one walnut specie. Whether high in the air, or firmly grounded on your kitchen floor, walnut is a great ally in design.
6. Alder Wood
View in gallery Antler Adler Wood queen size bed This hardwood definitely has a soft side, but that doesn’t
wonder of woods. (Designed by Kimberly Manne of Warp Designs)
8. Lyptus Wood
View in gallery Lyptus flooring goes great with those mahogany walls
Admit it, exotic things excite and attract us. Take the Koala bear, for example. Surely you would have to agree that this is a rare and beautiful animal that shows great taste in millwork material. The Eucalyptus plant has made it possible for us to have a naturally salmon hued wood that like us gets a little darker when spending time under UV rays. This wood makes for an amazing wide paneled floor as well as cabinetry and as mentioned earlier, for millwork such as doors, frames, and crown molding. There are so many areas of your home that can chew on the homey taste of Lyptus. (by Lapis Design Partners)
9. Maple Wood
View in gallery Beautiful maple wood dresser and TV stand in the bedroom This wood gets a lot of comparisons, one being the above, Lyptus, which proves that this is a wood worth emulating and there are many valid reasons it receives
Paper, matches, chopstick, surely one of these is found in your home as well? Yes not only is this wood structurally flexible, but it is jack-of-all-trades and has served us well, do you not think! Poplar may not be the most popular for furniture but like the other nine woods we dug our carving knives into today, it has a Hollywood charm that will make our house a home and invite the stars of our lives to come and sit, stand or dine upon. (by dSPACE Studio Ltd)
How many red carpets can do that for you?
Bravo to you wood!
