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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Our current bedroom set is about 15 years old. [b]It's your garden variety[/b] [b]Ashley/LazyBoy [/b]type of [b]sleigh bed[/b] set, dark brown, darkens up a room. [b]The tops were starting to flake and peel,[/b] though some of it IS real wood. I sanded it down and painted it a matte grey [/quote]

LazyBoy is cheap stuff.  Sleigh bed is trendy.  I also would not paint wood furniture (at least not sold hardwood that I wanted to keep a long time).  Paint peels off and looks cruddy after a while.  Your stuff is not the type that lasts hundreds of years.  Real hardwood is what you want; it lasts and is meant to be enjoyed for its natural beauty.  If we're going to cut down a tree, the tree should be honored by making something worthy.  Natural wood grain is beautiful.  Furniture should be made to last.  IMHO.

Of course I'm talking about wood furniture.  Upholstered furniture is different.  The frame should be quality, but upholstery will not last forever.  Couches and chairs have to be replaced or recovered, new cushions, etc.

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1. You're smug and not everyone has the same taste as you. Get over it. I'm not sitting around admiring my dresser drawers and marveling at the woodiness of it.

2. Yes, a sleigh bed that I've had for 15 years is "trendy". You can walk into any furniture store and see it or something similar and you will continue to see that same style for at least the next decade. A design that lasts over 20 years is not a trend, sorry to say, it is part of decorating culture whether you like it or not.

3. The sleigh bed is actually in great shape and looks the exact same as when we bought it. The only way we will ever get rid of it is when we will decide to move up from a Queen to a King, and not a second before. It has been dismantled at least six times and moved across the country three  times. It will probably look the same for another fifteen years, so you can take your judgment about its quality and go somewhere.

4. I don't need furniture to last [i]hundreds[/i] years, and I wouldn't want a bedroom set in my house that was made fifty years ago.

5. Plenty of older, real wood furniture pieces are rescued from Craigslist or second hand store, stripped and painted. Apparently they're not as obsessed with preserving real wood the way you are. There are thriving internet groups devoted to this very practice. It is featured on HGTV and other design shows all the time. Surely you don't think that people are painting laminate furniture. [/quote]

:shock:  Defensive much?[/quote]

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