This is my observation over the past fifteen years.  The average price for a bedroom suite hasn’t changed; five years ago it was $1500.00 to $2300.00.  Ten years ago, it was $1500.00 to $2300.00.  Fifteen years ago it was $1500.00 to $2300.00.  Guess what, today it is still $1500.00 to $2300.00.  Now something has to give, you can’t have the same quality today for the same price you paid fifteen or even twenty years ago, can you?

Well, manufacturers have tried many different approaches to maintaining the same quality level of years ago while keeping price down to today’s expectations.  As you are aware, many companies have gone over seas to produce items.  Not only is labor cheaper, but TAXES and ENVIRONMENTAL considerations are much less stringent.  Manufacturers are also using different varieties of wood to produce their pieces.  Before, Oak was the cheap affordable domestic hardwood.  Cherry cost a bit more but was found in more formal settings where the look of casual oak wouldn’t work.  No more.  Oak, Cherry, and Walnut, any of the domestic hardwoods now bring a premium.  The idea of Oak and inexpensive doesn’t work anymore.  Now, woods like Para wood, coulin wood, rubber wood, and Asian oak are what many products are made from.  Wood is now being harvested in the countries where the products are being produced, which reduces transportation cost.  There have also been improvements in manufacturing techniques and adhesives.  The glue used in many products today is far superior to anything used years ago, perhaps eliminating the need for time intensive production techniques.

So NO!  Our store continues to offer quality bedroom furniture at prices the average consumer can afford.  Our domestic line of bedroom furniture, by Vaughan Bassett, continues to lead the charge in our store offering some of the best values on the market while continuing to be produced here in North Carolina and Virginia.  They have beaten the overseas trend through technological advancements in production.  Another feature I really like about Vaughan Bassett is their finish selection.  Many of their bedroom suites come in three to five colors and are warehoused at their factory allowing for short turnaround times.  Winners Only has been a major supplier of home office, entertainment centers, and dining room suites since we moved to Raleigh eighteen years ago.  They are now a major source of bedroom furniture.  Their styles and finishes are trend setting and incredibly well priced.  Everyone knows Paula Deen for her cooking but when paired with the right furniture designers, she has an uncanny ability to design some of the most contemporary bedroom and dining room in the industry.  We show both collections in our showroom.  These pieces have all the bells and whistles.  Wood on wood drawer guides, dust proofing, English dovetail drawers, solid wood drawers, framed internal construction on all case pieces, and multiple finishes.

Before you make your next bedroom suite purchase decision, you gotta get in here and see what we have.  We are on Glenwood Avenue, only a ¼ mile west of Crabtree Valley Mall.

Some advantages of power reclining furniture are:

• Limitless number of positions.  Upright, fully reclined, partially reclined, and doesn’t matter.
• Easy or operate.  Ladies, ever struggle closing the foot rest on a piece?  Nearly every female customer we have struggles with the foot rest.  Some don’t even realize they are doing it until I point it out.  Then they are like “yea, you are right.”
• Works equally well regardless of body type or weight.  100 lbs. to 350 lbs., doesn’t matter, the operation is mechanical, not spring or gravitational.
• Reliability.  So far, reliability with electric has been 100%.

The only disadvantage that exists with electric is you are limited to where in the house it goes.  Motors add weight to an already heavy piece of furniture so manipulating up stairs and down stairs is a problem.  If you need to get a piece in a bonus room, down stairs finished basement, then mechanical is the way to go.  Mechanical comes in sections.  Think of a sofa as two recliners and a center piece bolted to a metal rail that forms a sofa.  So separating these pieces and transporting anywhere in your home is possible.   The backs even remove.  Matter of fact, we can deliver mechanical sofas into customers’ homes where a traditional sofa would never fit.  Power has cords and connectors that prevent the separation of pieces from each other.  The farthest separation you can get is removing the back.

Next time you are in the market for motion upholstery, you need to stop by and see what we have to offer from Flexsteel.  You won’t be disappointed.

By Michael

• Construction:  English dove tail drawers, stainless steel ball bearing drawer glides, solid wood construction used throughout, even in the drawers.  Fit and finish that is second to none.

• Clever design:  Flip down keyboard trays that work as a standard drawer, will hold a lap top, or can be used for keyboard with cutouts for the cords.

• Tons of finish options:  Most desk come in light or dark oak, dark cherry, espresso cherry, cinnamon cherry or tobacco cherry.

• Modular desk series:  This series is a measure and fit type desk set.  Measure your wall space and choose from premade pieces to fill your space.  Comes in all the colors listed above and about six different pieces.

• Lots of sizes: Desk comes in widths from 36” wide all the way up to 72”.  Flat tops, roll tops, credenzas and most have optional hutches for the top.  We also have student desk that will match the youth bedroom suites in many different colors.

Most importantly, you gotta get in here and see what we have to offer.  Worst thing that can happen by stopping in is you get an education and keep all the others stores honest through knowledge.

Michael Lashley

So the next time you are in the market for a leather sofa, recliner, power recline group, sectional and loveseat, you owe it to yourself to visit Leather and Wood Furniture.  You will see a difference.

Michael Lashley

Serta is arguably one of the best and most reputable mattress companies in the industry.  Their conventional inner spring mattresses have been serving consumers well for years, and now their memory foam mattresses are doing the same.

Introducting iComfort, Serta’s new memory foam mattresses line.  You need to come in and see for yourself what the entire buzz is about.  Once you finish shopping, come back to our store, make your purchase and enjoy it without regret.  Remember, we are home of the sleep comfort guarantee.  Try it, if you don’t like it, come back and choose another set that you will like.

The attached video shows first hand why iComfort is the best in the industry.

Thanks for reading.

Split: All leather hides have to be split because a hide is too thick to upholster or use in any type of manufacturing. The hide goes into a machine where a blade ‘filets’ the hide into two hides. The bottom hide is known as split leather. This hide can be sanded down (corrected) and embossed with a consistent graining pattern to be used on the outside back and sides of sofa for a slight cost savings to achieve certain price points. A split leather is still 100% leather, and has all the same finishing treatments as the top grain portion.

Top Grain: In the above process the top grain portion is the top portion of the hide. It is generally used in the areas that receive more wear since the fiber of top grain is more compact than that of split grain.

Full Grain: Is top grain leather that uses the grain of the hide. No correction is made to the grain.

Corrected Grain: Top grain leather that has been sanded down to reduce some of the visual and natural characteristics. Of the various types of corrections, the most common is to sand down, and completely remove the natural grain and then emboss a consistent graining pattern. Another type of correction is to lightly buff the hide to remove the peaks and valleys of the grain.

Embossed Grain: From above, using rollers a consistent graining pattern is ‘pressed’ into the leather. It can be as subtle a small natural looking graining pattern, or as different as a crocodile pattern.

Grades of Leather: nothing more than a price point. The main determining factor of a grade of leather is origin of the raw hide.

Nu buck: Full aniline that has been slightly buffed to create a velvet effect. This is a top-grain leather, not a split or a suede. Nu bucks are especially vulnerable to stains and can be protected with specialized products.

Pull-up: aniline – dyed leather that has been waxed or oiled. When the leather is pulled, the oil/wax separates, causing the color to lighten.

I would like to thank Flexsteel for making this schematic and build data available for their customers.  There are no secrets under the cover.  Everything is built as shown and made to last.  You need to come into our store, examine and sit on a Flexsteel and I think you will agree, Flexsteel is one of the industry leaders in leather upholstery.

Natural hides generally require more delicate care than protected hides, so the instructions shown here to clean your natural piece can also be used interchangeably with your protected leather hide sofa.

1. Natural leather collection

   The Natural leather products are processed without changing the original characteristics of the hides. The presence of healed scars, differences in grain, wrinkles, veining, differences in color shades and any trace that nature has left on these hides, is proof that they are absolutely genuine and bears witness to their great worth.

   Cleaning the Natural leather collection

   Periodically dust using a clean, dry and non-abrasive white cloth.
   For dry dirt: brush delicately using a brush with soft bristles or use a vacuum cleaner at the medium suction power setting, using the specific accessory supplied with the cleaner and taking care to avoid rubbing the accessory directly against the covering.
   For stains caused by substances soluble in water (soft drinks, coffee, tea, milk, marmalade): rapidly remove the liquid from the surface using a white, non-abrasive cloth (or absorbent paper). Then rub delicately working from the outside of the stain towards the center, using a clean cloth soaked in water. Do not soak the leather surface, and dry immediately using a dry cloth.

   Do not dry the leather in direct sunlight or with a hair dryer.

   For stains caused by greasy substances oil, ketchup, mayonnaise, chocolate): remove the substance delicately from the surface using absorbent paper, taking care not exert pressure to prevent the dirt from entering the pores of the leather. Use a clean cloth, soaked in a very dilute solution of neutral soap, rubbing delicately working from the outside towards the center of the stain.
   Dry immediately using a clean cloth. Only use water and colorless, mild soap.

   Warning

   Position the sofa at least 50 cm. from sources of heat such as heaters or radiators.
   Avoid exposing the sofa to direct sunlight or to powerful lamps to ensure the color of the covering remains bright.
   The above listed causes, as well as the use of unapproved detergent substances, may irreparably damage the leather covering, causing cracks and changes in color.
   If you purchase a new sofa, with a covering that is an identical article and/or is of the same color as the sofa that you already own, it is possible that you may note slight differences in shades of color between the two, because of the unique personality of each hide.

As always, thanks for visiting our site and enjoy the video.