Archive for January, 2008

Wide range of furniture and material handling products from Resource Furniture

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Resource Furniture  is a manufacturer and distributor of furniture products including material handling products and library accessories. The material handling products include audio visual trolleys, medical trolleys, library trolleys, folding trolleys, ladders, catering units, hand trucks and step stools. Resource Furniture retail service also offers consultants to help customers in planning, merchandising and installation activities.

Resource Furniture also offers a wide range of chairs coated with different colours of vinyl like burgundy, deep purple, black, platinum, mustard, sea green, cypress green, terracotta, shadow green and many more. The types of chairs offered by Resource Furniture include executive and boardroom, guest and visitor, task and drafting, beam sitting, healthcare, reception, stools and benches, stacking and folding.

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Furniture can make living room functional, fun

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Beryn Hammil

Q:We are in a quandary as to how to decorate our living room with furniture. It is not a high-use area, but it is a visual introduction to our home. Ceilings in the entry and living room are 12 feet high. What do you recommend?
John Manzo Granite Bay (Placer County)
A: Let’s make this beautiful space both inviting and functional. Then it won’t be just sitting there, pretty to look at, but unused.
What draws people into a room? It’s a place that’s comfortable to sit and have a conversation, or it’s a quiet place to listen to music, read or contemplate the day in solitude. It should be somewhere you want to be.

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New range of indoor furniture available from Chair Imports

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Chair Imports ‘ range of table bases consist of metal bases and cast iron bases. The metal and cast iron bases are available in a variety of styles and sizes such as powder coatings and chrome finishes. The indoor furniture compliments Chair Imports’ broad range of quality products such as Werzalit table tops and Italian chairs and barstools. Italian chairs and barstools are available in a variety of materials and color finishes.

In addition to metal and cast iron bases, Chair Imports also has a wide range of aluminium, stainless steel, and high quality resin bases for outdoor furnitures.

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Tuesday Tips: Buying Furniture

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

If you were to take a look around my house, you’d find furniture that has been handed down by parents and grandparents, a few cheap pieces my husband and I have bought over the years and even a few throwbacks to college. You’ll also find my husband’s favorite piece of furniture in the whole house — his metal Redskins trash can. We’ve made these furniture pieces work in our home because well… furniture buying is scary and expensive. Since we’ll have to grow up one day, I asked Annette Hannon, an interior designer based in Burke, for tips on buying furniture and maybe a new trash can. (Sorry honey. The Redskins trash can has got to go.)

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From Old Wood To New Furniture

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

By TERESA M. PELHAM

Ed Goldberg shows off his handmade furniture as if he’s introducing you to an old friend. Made with recycled materials and more care than pretty much all the other furniture on the market, his wooden utilitarian pieces tell a story.

“It’s brand-new old,” he says of his tables and shelves, made from found materials. “All of a sudden, recycled is cool. We have dumpsters and landfills filled with old wood that could have another life. But you have to have some imagination.”

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Find Portable Furniture for Your Next Trade Show, Conference, or Corporate Retreat at BeanBagZone.com

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

(PRLEAP.COM) Fort Collins, Colorado – January 28, 2008 – More and more event organizers are using bean bags as portable and inexpensive furniture for trade shows, conferences, retreats, and other corporate events. BeanBagZone.com offers a variety of colors, fabrics, shapes, and sizes to suit the needs of any event coordinator. Timing and service are key for many short-term events, and the sales staff at The Zone will help the coordinator with everything from color and fabric choices, timing of delivery, and product assembly. Some products even offer free fabric swatches to those who need them.

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Keep your antique furniture in shape

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Antique furniture requires much more special attention and care than modern home furnishings typically need. Polishes, adhesives, fasteners and finishes on antique furniture can dramatically affect the current and future value of pieces.

If you own one or more antique furniture heirlooms, it might be wise to practice the following suggestions when it comes to positioning and caring for them in the home.

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Chinese furniture take sheen away from Kartarpur

Monday, January 28th, 2008

BS Reporter / New Delhi/ Jalandhar
The famous wooden furniture industry of Kartarpur, a small town in Jalandhar district, is now on the verge of closure due to several reasons, including import of Chinese furniture and increasing trend of wrought iron furniture.
 
The decades-old furniture business, which could be easily distinguished for its specialty, has lost its lucrative edge.
 
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New Jersey Retailer, Suburban Furniture Hires Website Management Team

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

By: Furniture World Magazine  

Suburban Furniture, an independent, family owned retailer located in Succasunna, NJ announced that the company contracted with FurnitureDealer.net to run and manage its website, online marketing and channel integration initiatives. The new site (www.SuburbanFurniture.com) was launched at the beginning of December.

Suburban Furniture owner, Kenny Luthy says, “Furnituredealer.net had our website up within a few weeks of our contract being signed and we have seen an increase in our site traffic of 300% in just one month. We are appearing on all kinds of local search requests on Google and Yahoo that we never got before. Best of all, however, are the number of local people calling us from our website.

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First Capital Introduces Program To Benefit Furniture Importers and Suppliers

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

By: Furniture World Magazine 
First Capital, a leading commercial financial services firm, announced the official launch of its Trade Payable Discounting program to improve its suite of International SupplyChain Finance solutions. The offering is the third in a series of new international trade solutions First Capital is unveiling this Fall. In October, the firm announced a “Pre-Delivery Guaranty” program and “Export Factoring” as the first and second offerings in the suite.

Trade Payable Discounting allows global importers to improve their cash flow and increase their financial leverage by obtaining extended, unsecured payment terms from foreign suppliers instead of using letters of credit or paying cash. Importers also gain from price discounts resulting from early payment under Trade Payable Discounting.

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