Take care of your furniture
Your furniture is a huge investment! So is your car and your house. So if you put a lot of work into your car or your house, like getting oil changes or putting in new floors, why would you not do the same with your furniture? Your furniture gets used a lot and you can help maintain its value by following these ideas.
Keep your furniture clean. If it's cloth furniture, you should vacuum it regularly. If it is leather furniture, you should wipe it down and use leather treatment regularly. And if it's made of wood, you need to keep it polished.
But what if it has already taken a beating? What can you do then?
If you have wooden furniture you have a few options. Painting is one idea. In fact, two dressers from different manufacturers can be made to look like they are part of a set with a paint job and a new set of handles!
If you do not want to paint your furniture you still have other options. If it has been badly abused, you can sand off the finish, sand out the nicks and scratches, and then varnish it. Or, if it is not badly scratched, you can use children's crayons in a color that matches the wood (like light brown) and color in the scratch.
Scratch filler is available at hardware stores but children's crayons can work just as well.
Another way to revive your tired furniture, like couches and chairs, is to get them re-upholstered. After all, you have probably painted your living room a couple times, so having furniture that matches again will make your room look that much better. Instead of buying brand new furniture, just get your furniture re-upholstered.
And yet another way to revive tired looking furniture is to simply move your room around or switch the rooms that your furniture are in. Take the armchair that has been in your living room since you bought the house and move it to the bedroom. Take the unused chair in the spare room and move it by the front door.
Simple changes like this will help you cycle your furniture from heavy use areas to light use areas, which will help maintain their life, and will help you enjoy them as if they were new.
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Marketing Executive Joins Barger, Cowart & Kenney
Atlanta, GA (ContentDesk) April 5, 2006 -- Barger, Cowart & Kenney, LLC (BCK), an Atlanta-based executive and management consulting firm, announced today that Don Mecke has joined the firm as Senior Vice President of Business Development.
Don will be a terrific addition to our organization, stated Dr. Charles Cowart, Managing Partner of Barger, Cowart & Kenney.
Over the past 20 years, Don has been very successful leading and managing business development programs on a global basis...plus, he is a past client and understands our work.
Our business will most certainly benefit from his vision, leadership, and proven experience. Mr.
Mecke served as Executive Vice President of Standard Furniture, leading all Sales and Marketing efforts from 1989 to 2004, and played a strategic role in Standards rise to the top echelon of U.S. furniture importers.
He also served on the Board of Directors for the Home Furnishing International Association (HFIA...
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Discount Patio Furniture ? An Easy Way to Get the Best
Buying discount patio furniture is an economical way to obtain quality furniture for your patio. Many department stores offer patio furniture at discounted prices towards or at the end of the summer season. Many people can obtain quality teak or cedar furniture to enhance their patios by watching the advertised sales from department and hardware stores. You can save yourself hundreds of dollars by just waiting a month or two for that special piece of patio furniture you have always wanted. You don't have to buy the cheapest furniture just to be able to enjoy your patio.
There are disadvantages to buying discount patio furniture. Ensure the quality of the workmanship of the pieces you buy so that you are not buying junk furniture that will fall apart the first time anyone sits on it. When shopping for discounted patio furniture, you should always look for chairs or benches made from solid wood. This kind of patio furniture is durable and well worth the money you pay. Solid wood...
Discount Patio Furniture ? An Easy Way to Get the Best
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Hickory Creek Furniture Offers Help for Victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
(ContentDesk) October 1, 2005 -- Hickory Creek Furniture is offering a 10% discount to victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
With regular prices near wholesale cost, this is a substantial savings to victims of these devastating hurricanes.
Hickory Creek is an online furniture retailer that specializes in high quality merchandise at substantial savings.
Discounts to hurricane victims will be provided through December of 2006, or until further notice.Hickory Creek has also launched a relief program entitled 'Furniture for Relief'.
This program provides a $50 donation in furniture to hurricane victims for every order of $1000 or more placed in October.
Customers can double their donation to $100 per order by providing proof of donation to any national relief organization, such as the Red Cross.
All donations will be used for furniture to be given to victims of these hurricanes who have relocated to the Atlanta area.
Hickory...
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Take care of your furniture
Your furniture is a huge investment! So is your car and your house. So if you put a lot of work into your car or your house, like getting oil changes or putting in new floors, why would you not do the same with your furniture? Your furniture gets used a lot and you can help maintain its value by following these ideas.
Keep your furniture clean. If it's cloth furniture, you should vacuum it regularly. If it is leather furniture, you should wipe it down and use leather treatment regularly. And if it's made of wood, you need to keep it polished.
But what if it has already taken a beating? What can you do then?
If you have wooden furniture you have a few options. Painting is one idea. In fact, two dressers from different manufacturers can be made to look like they are part of a set with a paint job and a new set of handles!
If you do not want to paint your furniture you still have other options. If it has been badly abused, you can sand...
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MasterVisions Home Decor Manufacturer Licenses New Patriotic Artwork
Minneapolis, MN
January 4, 2005 -? MasterVisions Etched Glass Home D?cor and Furniture has added a new patriotic artwork to their collection of etched glass home decor and furniture. Minnesota native, and current Milwaukee artist, Jon Baas, has produced a specially commissioned artwork titled "Homeland Heroes."Baas is an emerging young artist who first gained attention for his award-winning "Eagle" portrait. He has previously been commissioned by MasterVisions to create other popular pieces titled, "Afternoon Hideaway" and "Ocean Palms."MasterVisions, the largest producer of etched glass home d?cor and furniture in the world, adds this new design to their collection of over 100 designs etched in solid hardwood-framed mirrors, glass-top coffee tables and end tables, and coat racks."I've always wanted to expand our collection of patriotic works," said MasterVisions president Mark Scott. "This piece works nicely toward that goal, and also provides us with something uniquely our...
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iFurn.com to Add AVDECO Products to Their Wide Selection of High Quality Plasma Screen TV Stands and Entertainment Furniture
(ContentDesk) January 22, 2006 -- iFurn.com, a division of Norris Enterprises, added a new line of high quality plasma screen TV stands to their selection.
This brand new line of contemporary TV and Audio stands from AVDECO Products adds a level of depth to the websites great collection of entertainment products.Some of the items in this new line of products include:"???Flat panel TV stands"???Audio towers with built in CD racks"???Contemporary styled speaker stands
In May of 2000, AVDECO set out to do one thing and one thing right: to offer a line of A/V furniture that reflects the revolutionary advancement of state-of-the-art A/V systems. They wanted to put an end to the "complacency" of the A/V furniture industry, one that continued to offer the same generic type of products. AVDECO Producst is bent on bringing the best A/V furniture to A/V enthusiasts through their refreshingly new designs and the best value in the industry.iFurn.com is proud to add AVDECO Products...
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Unfinished Furniture? Finish It Yourself!
Unfinished furniture has started to become extremely popular in the last few years. As customers have discovered the benefit of buying unfinished wood furniture, the industry has responded with an even larger selection.
There are many benefits to buying unfinished furniture.
One is that you are able to see what you are buying.
Unlike finished furniture, you will be able to immediately see if your furniture has defects like discoloration, knots, or clear weak points.
Manufactures of unfinished furniture know that they must use superior quality lumber in unfinished wood furniture production, because they know they can not cover up defects that they could under a finished wood piece of furniture.
Another benefit of buying unfinished furniture is that you will be able to save money.
As the company will not have to pay for the finishing, they will pass the savings on to you.
Not only will it be cheaper than finished furniture, it...
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Eye Candy, Over $60,000 in Freebies and Brand New Technology! Now that?s a Computer Show!
Sub300.com, North America's only Linux store is about to have some real fun. At this year's Linux Desktop Summit, Sub300.com will be wowing the crowds with their unique presentation, products and commitment to give over $60,000 worth of Linux software and hardware away at the show.David Silverman, President of Sub300.com says: "The way software is delivered through Linspire's CNR Warehouse has been one of the primary reasons that Sub300 chose to feature the Linspire operating system on our desktop...
Eye Candy, Over $60,000 in Freebies and Brand New Technology! Now that?s a Computer Show!
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Are You Hiring The Wrong Florist?
Did you know that 3 out of 4 hosts or social planners hire aflorist for their special occasion? Although professionalflorists can enhance your special day with flowers, theflorist must know your style, criteria and budget. Manyattributes must be carefully thought through beforeselecting a florist or flower shop. Carefully read throughthe information below to save you time, money andunsatisfactory results from your florist.Many people agree that flowers are one of the most importantelements in...
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Buying Guide to Graphics Cards
The graphics card is a vital performance component of your computer, particularly if you play 3D games, or work with graphics and video content. The graphics card sits in an expansion card slot in your PC and it is specifically designed to process image data and output it to your monitor, enabling you to see it. A graphics card works by calculating how images appear, particularly 3D images, and renders them to the screen. 3D images and video images take a lot of processing capacity, and many graphics...
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Ten Things To Know About Contact Lenses
1. How hard is it to get used to wearing contact lenses?Everybody adjusts to wearing contact lenses differently. How long it takes for a person's eyes adjust to wearing contact lenses varies and depends on the sensitivity of the eyes and also on the type of contact lenses being worn. Typically it will take from one day up to about two weeks.2. How do you take care of contact lenses?Proper care of contact lenses varies depending on the type prescribed.
Disposable and extended wear brands...
Ten Things To Know About Contact Lenses
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Electric RC Airplanes: Beginners Luck Every Time
Flying an electric RC airplane is like having beginners luck every time you fly. The first remote control airplane I ever got was electrically powered, I had no flying skills whatsoever, and I still managed to fly it perfectly without even crashing. Why you ask? Because electric RC planes like the one I had are so simple, they only have two control options, power and steering. You go as fast, or slow as you want and just choose your direction.
Now yes, there are electric RC planes...
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