An economic recruiter in western North Carolina says the days of high employment in furniture plants are over because of imported goods being ordered by furniture companies.
Figures show that furniture employment in 18 western North Carolina counties fell from about 74-hundred, to 24-hundred-63 jobs, between 2000 and 2006.
There still are small furniture companies that produce [...]

Dear Richard and Jean: How do you feel about painted furniture as opposed to wood-stained furniture, and do you ever mix the two? — Deloris, Waynesville
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Richard: Hi, Deloris. I assume you mean do we ever mix a painted piece among wood pieces or vice versa, and the answer to that is easy — all the [...]

Do you have a room in your home that needs a makeover but you don’t know where to start?
Hickory Furniture Mart, the nation’s leading home furnishings resource, is sponsoring a contest that can change an undesirable room in your home into a fabulous showplace just in time for spring. The winner will receive one day [...]

Bayley Wharton has built a furniture business out of his reverence for thoroughness and clean lines, and his ability to leave natural beauty alone.
When he works with wood, he uses no artificial stains and sparingly uses hand-rubbed oil and lacquer.
“I have a motto: ‘Let the wood speak for itself,’
” said Wharton, a maker of fine [...]

Ensuring that organic design isn’t all we have left to remember Mother Earth by, some manufacturers at the recent International Home Furnishings Market in High Point have committed to saving the planet one table at a time.
To make a difference, they’re using renewable resources and environmentally friendly construction methods while closely monitoring their suppliers’ reforestation [...]

Even if your house is just a McMansion, furnituremakers are eager to offer you a chance to eat, sleep and relax on furnishings inspired by the biggest American mansion of them all, Asheville, N.C.’s Biltmore House.
Two new furniture collections by Magnussen Home Furnishings Inc. draw inspiration from the 1890s French Renaissance-style chateau in the Blue [...]

You may live in a two-bedroom ranch, but you can still eat, sleep and relax on furnishings inspired by the biggest American mansion of them all, Biltmore House in Asheville, N.C.
Two new furniture collections by Magnussen Home Furnishings draw inspiration from the 1890s French Renaissance-style chateau in the Blue Ridge Mountains that has become [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C. — Your house might be a McMansion, but furniture makers are eager to offer you a chance to eat, sleep and relax on furnishings inspired by the biggest American mansion of them all, Asheville, N.C.’s Biltmore House.
Two new furniture collections by Magnussen Home Furnishings Inc. draw inspiration from the 1890s French [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C. – Your house might be a McMansion, but furniture makers are eager to offer you a chance to eat, sleep and relax on furnishings inspired by the biggest American mansion of them all, Asheville, N.C.’s Biltmore House.
Two new furniture collections by Magnussen Home Furnishings Inc. draw inspiration from the 1890s French Renaissance-style [...]

HIGH POINT, N.C. This year’s developing trend at the High Point furniture market features designs from grand destinations and tourist hotspots.
Scattered through the 12 million square feet of showroom space at this month’s market were collections inspired by California’s Monterey coastline, Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood and the countryside of upstate New York.
They’re all are set [...]