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Furniture repair is the craft of making broken or worn furniture usable again. It may include the preservation of old furniture, which is referred to as restoration . The craft of furniture repair requires a number of different skills including woodworking , metalworking , wood finishing , caning (furniture) , woodturning , and upholstery .
An early attempt at a business selling RTA furniture was set up by designer Louise Brigham and two partners during World War I. By 1915, Home Art Masters was offering RTA furniture kits at moderate prices through a mail-order catalog. The buyer received a set of parts that the company stated could be “quickly put together and finished.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. American multinational home improvement supplies retailing company The Home Depot, Inc. An aerial view of a Home Depot in Onalaska, Wisconsin Company type Public Traded as NYSE: HD DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component Industry Retail (home improvement) Founded February 6 ...
In 2008, IKEA paired up with the makers of video game The Sims 2 to make a stuff pack called IKEA Home Stuff, featuring many IKEA products. It was released on 24 June 2008 in North America and 26 June 2008 in Europe. It is the second stuff pack with a major brand, the first being The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff.
Inter IKEA Systems B.V. is a holding company fully owned by Inter IKEA Holding and thus Interogo Foundation. It is the company that legally owns all of the IKEA brand's intellectual property (logo, word, trademarks, etc.). [14] Inter IKEA Systems is the IKEA franchisor. The company releases guides and manuals of various parts of the IKEA brand.
A white wooden drawer Filing card drawer. A drawer (/ d r ɔːr / ⓘ DROR) is a box-shaped container inside a piece of furniture that can be pulled out horizontally to access its contents. Drawers are built into numerous types of furniture, including cabinets, chests of drawers (bureaus), desks, and the like.
Furniture is also used to hold objects at a convenient height for work (as horizontal surfaces above the ground, such as tables and desks), or to store things (e.g., cupboards, shelves, and drawers). Furniture can be a product of design and can be considered a form of decorative art.
Chest of drawers from the 18th century, collection King Baudouin Foundation. A chest of drawers, also called (especially in North American English) a dresser or a bureau, [1] is a type of cabinet (a piece of furniture) that has multiple parallel, horizontal drawers generally stacked one above another.