Bamboo Furniture PK Wooden Furniture
Price
Bamboo is rich in resources, the cost is relatively low, and the market competition is fierce. Through market research, we found that there are many kinds of furniture made of bamboo, the source of raw materials is convenient and cheap, and the price of a single piece of small furniture made of bamboo is about dozens of yuan to hundreds of yuan. If the selection of high-quality bamboo as raw materials and then fine processing procedures to produce large pieces of furniture, the corresponding furniture prices will be relatively high, probably within a few thousand dollars. On the furniture market as a whole, and solid wood furniture, bamboo furniture prices are moderate. The quality of bamboo furniture with a price of 1,000 yuan is significantly better than that of ordinary panel furniture and solid wood furniture, which is affordable to the average family.
Appearance
Bamboo furniture is not a contemporary appearance; it has been around since ancient times in China. There are some differences between modern bamboo furniture and ancient bamboo furniture due to the different production processes. In the furniture exhibitions visited, bamboo furniture can meet diversified needs, making various kinds of furniture, such as coffee tables, tables and chairs, sofas, screens, wardrobes, bookcases, and so on. We will find that there is almost no difference in appearance between bamboo furniture and solid wood furniture. Bamboo furniture can also be connected with mortise and tenon structure and hardware fittings, with good gloss and a cooler touch than solid wood furniture.
Environmental performance
Wooden furniture and bamboo furniture use raw materials that are taken from nature, natural and environmentally friendly. But the growth cycle of bamboo is short, about 5 years or so can be shaped to use, and planting is simple and convenient. The timber growth cycle is long, different species of trees vary in years, and the growth cycle of precious wood takes up to several hundred years, relatively speaking, the cost of use will increase a lot. Although bamboo and wood are from nature, environmental protection, and durability, but from the perspective of green sustainability to consider, bamboo furniture is better.
Processing
Bamboo furniture in the process of processing, the first needs for bamboo cutting, bonding and then after high temperature and high-pressure treatment, and finally a scientific and reasonable arrangement of combinations of bamboo parts of the internal stress and external forces to balance, to ensure that bamboo furniture is not easy to crack deformation. Compared with wooden furniture, wooden furniture cracking and deformation is a clichéd problem. In bamboo furniture, as long as the control of bamboo moisture content, do a good job on the surface of the paint process, you can eliminate the occurrence of such problems.
Comparison of advantages and disadvantages
Compared with wooden furniture, bamboo is rich in resources, low cost, cheap and convenient. The bamboo furniture production process is simple, after hydrothermal carbonation treatment of bamboo moisture resistance is higher than wood, insect moths, and mildew, more durable than wood sturdy, and especially suitable for use in the rainy season in the south. In addition, bamboo is flexible, suitable for bending processing, and made of furniture that rarely uses adhesives, effectively avoiding the release of formaldehyde.
Bamboo and wood have a special natural texture, as does wood, the texture of the wood is more intimate, close to nature, bright color, high hardness, strong load-bearing capacity, functional diversity, and elegant and lightweight appearance. At the same time, bamboo furniture has a special performance superior to wood, bamboo can absorb ultraviolet rays, relieve human fatigue, and bring a sense of comfort and fresh experience.
Conclusion
Bamboo has a unique oriental temperament, more and more consumers love it, and it has gradually become part of people’s home lives. Furniture made of bamboo is not only practical, but high appreciation, coupled with the advantages of its unique growth cycle, will give people a sense of simplicity and natural coziness, for their living room life to increase the feeling of a primitive natural feeling, feel the breath from the traditional culture, bamboo furniture will occupy a place in the furniture industry in the future, to lead the trend of the new environmental protection trend.