Regardless of your decoration and home design style, be it farmhouse style,country style,mid-century morden, or wabi-sabi style, it is nearly impossible not to use wooden furniture.

How to care for wood furniture

A vast majority of families and homeowners prefer wooden furniture because of its simple and natural look, coupled with texture and versatility. Although wooden furniture look good in general, they sometimes need maintenance. When they are not properly maintained, they will lose their appeal.

There is no need to use complicated procedure when maintaining a solid wood furniture. Maintaining or caring for pieces of wooden furniture is not difficult. Firstly, you have to pay attention to the humidity of the environment.

High humidity causes absorption of excess moisture in pieces of air, thereby causing excess absorption of water and the build-up of mold in furniture. The wood begins to expand and crack. On the contrary, when air humidity is too low and the air in the atmosphere is too dry, it causes shrinking and cracking in the furniture because the moisture lost excessively from wood.

Considering the characteristics of wooden furniture, we must pay attention to adjust air humidity after placing them in the home.It is thus evident that one of the ways to care for pieces of furniture is by using humidifiers.

How to care for wood furniture

You can place humidifiers in rooms with wooden furniture to regulate the room's air humidity. However, it is very important to avoid placing humidifiers directly on the solid wood furniture or too close to them to avoid excessive absorption of water.You alse can use a basin of water instead of a humidifier.

Another method of regulating air humidity in a room is by having green plants in the room. A plant can also serve as a natural humidifier by absorbing excess moisture in the air or releasing moisture into the atmosphere. They absorb carbon dioxide in the room whilst releasing oxygen, which is good for human health.

Wooden furniture are always coated and treated with chemicals to protect them from microbes and damages caused by changes in environmental atmospheric temperature. These chemical treatments applied to wooden pieces of furniture make it hard for them to damage easily. Nonetheless, you can also care for your wooden furniture by applying wood wax oil whenever you feel it is negatively affected by changes in humidity. Wood wax oil acts as a protection film on wood-like skincare products, to lock moisture in wood during dry and cold seasons, thus preventing a change in humidity from adversely affecting pieces of furniture.