◎ Modern furniture style shows your taste and keeps up with the contemporary trends, while classical furniture reflects culture trait and adds value as time goes by.
◎ Furniture of light color fits small rooms and poor daylighting rooms which face north, etc. For rooms with good daylight we can choose darker furniture to create elegance and classicism.
◎ Those large size fashionable armoires provide no convenience to old people although they save space.
◎ Newly married couples should not only care for furniture style but also the babies' life in the future if they plan to have any. For instance, the glass doors of low cabinets might become punching bags of the kids.
◎ Observe the surroundings to figure out if there is something like factory chimneys that bring much dust to your home. Therefore you should select some simple and family-friendly furniture so that cleaning work takes as little as possible time. while in humid rooms those furniture with packed foot will bring trouble.
◎ Furniture had better not occupy more than 45% of the room. There still should be some space for home appliances.
◎ The plane and solid sizes of furniture should assort with the rooms, otherwise your conceptive living space will never be realized.
◎ Collect as much as possible information about dining table and chairs, sofa and end tables to avoid hard match with the complete set of furniture.
◎ Can your newly bought furniture be moved to the house without difficulty? The key point is that the longest diagonal of the furniture should be no longer than that of the entryway or the landing of the stair well. Of course the current design of furniture generally takes common building size into consideration. So it should be people living in old houses who pay special attention to this factor.
◎ Balance the appearance and practicability of furniture and attach importance to the actual effects. Thus it is a basic buying tip that furniture meets our practical needs.

Buying Tips of Leather & Wood Furniture
Modern home life distinguishes itself with style, material and design of furniture. However, the mainstream of furniture material consists of wood, fabric, metal and leather though the design and materials greatly varies presently. Knowledge about characteristics, nature and style of materials helps people in home furnishing and selecting furniture. The following provides common sense about the four main types of materials for consumers' reference.

Wood Furniture
Wood furniture is durable and its styles vary with sculpt, design, color and painting. While people living in highly humid residence should choose those moistureproof wood furniture with high lipid such as teak, basswood and so on or those bake finishing wood furniture which has received preservative treatment.

Wood furniture can have a large variety of styles. Italian wood furniture generally has a streamline form presenting much more elegance than those trendy furniture made up of steel tubes. Spanish wood furniture can have either rustic style or luxurious style with bake finishing and fine handiwork. Moreover, Chinese furniture with style of the Ming Dynasty gains popularity by virtue of its conciseness and nobleness.

Application
Wood furniture varies in all kinds of style and requires easy maintenance, adapted to nearly all families except that special attention should be paid to security of children under school age and old people.

Maintenance
Routine work we should do is to flick away dust on the furniture surface. If the wood has a dry quality like maple and deal, it is necessary to care the furniture with special oil to avoid chaps. Providing wax sprayer is used, try not to spray too much as the furniture coat will be hurt easily in that way.

Leather Furniture

Leather is soft, flexible, tough and durable and allows easy maintenance. Due to different breeds, parts and treatments, leather products have different tactility. Some might be felt as soft as fibre, while others might be very thick and tough. Thus it is usually considered as a quite flexible and adaptable material.

Most leather furniture is sofa and chairs which present generous and handsome manners of the owners. Europe abounds with top grade leather sources and has the advantage of fine traditional manufacturing methods. Therefore, most pieces of European leather furniture are top grade ones with a large variety of styles due to vibrant colors, original designs and mixture of different materials. French leather sofa distinguishes itself by vigor and good taste. Among Italian furniture it is quite common to see the ones mixing leather, wood and steel tubes with trendy looks. Besides, right now the dying techniques are advanced that allow leather products to present fashionable pink or any vivid color, providing a wide range of choices. However, leather can't afford scratches by sharp objects. If there are naughty children or pets like dogs and cats at home, take these factors into consideration when buying leather furniture.

Since leather has a lot of types, we should deal with leather products differently. We'd better make it clear how to maintain the specific piece of leather furniture when purchasing it. Basically, we should conduct routine cleaning work at home, removing feculence with paper towel and then treat the surface with cleanser instructed by the manufacturer. It is also needed to periodically maintain our leather furniture with special oil or liquid, and polish the surface with soft cloth after it gets dry.