subject: Hotel Furniture On A Budget [print this page] Since not all hotels can have the budget of a Hilton or a Hyatt, some chains rely on using medium quality hotel furniture to decorate their rooms. While the highest feature is preferred in most cases, if the property's budget doesn't allow for the best of the best, you can still comfortably make due with middle quality hotel furniture and avoid low quality. Spot the best from quick guides.
We look out in medium quality hotel furniture for a few construction characteristics. We try to find additional mortise and tenon joints instead of mitered joints. Mortise and tenon tend to hold up better for heavy usage but require a lot of extra manual labor. Mitered joints are naturally nailed or stapled together and can loosen over time. We will settle for rabbit joints on the drawers, which will interweave the boards together.. Rabbiting is a little more job than mitering but usually holds the drawers jointly for longer. The rollers has to be perfect not to wear out soon. Finally, since hand nailing is dear, for medium quality pieces we at least like to see the frames glued then stapled equally over just stapled. The glue is very important aspect.
The materials we look for are some of the lower costs woods (we are shopping on a budget!) which fall into your pines and ash woods. Kitchen wood can be rugged. Remember perfect is more costly. You can see some MDF (medium density fiber board) in these pieces and possibly some particle board for the backs and underneath the hotel furniture. You can still order these pieces with wood veneers to make the hotel furniture look a lot additional expensive than it actually is.
Other things to look out for when buying medium quality hotel furniture is if the knobs and the drawer pulls aren't of terrible quality but are adequate and not embarrassing to show off. Is the hotel furniture square and does it looks like it is going to hold firm over time? Do the drawers slide in and out easily without having to jimmy the drawer back and forth. On visual inspection of the backs, generally medium quality pieces have some type of fiberboard stapled or tacked to the back covering the insides. Finally, if you place something on top of the piece it shouldn't creak or sound like it is going to fly apart.
Having a choice and a watchful eye, you can probably find a few bargains if you are looking for middle quality hotel furniture and at the minimum you can keep away paying too much for junk.
