subject: Characteristics Of High Quality Hotel Furniture [print this page] If you desire to have best furniture then you should be able to distinguish the superior and inferior quality. I have created sort of a checklist or high point of opinion to look out for when you are shopping for your hotel furniture to make certain that your vendor is not substituting lower or medium quality hotel furniture and trade it off as the top of the line.
When examining the hotel furniture samples, the first place we look are the joints and how they are connected. High quality furniture is built to last and eventually your property should be able to resell it to other properties or certainly on the secondary market. The best type of construction would involve doweling first then the frames being glued and screwed together. If you observe, mortise and tenon joints, which are the most labor concentrating types of joining, that are a bit tip off to overall superiority of the piece. The next best in joining is dovetails or even mitering is better than just shoving two boards together. If the bottom of the drawer is not properly glued it will tend to "float" according to the change in humidity.
For superior quality hotel furniture we like to see kiln dried woods that remove as much of the moisture as possible so later the wood will not split when humidity conditions alter. Expensive wood will show outer grains. The pieces will look like the wood on the outside was specially selected just for that article rather than just a random grain pattern. We also like to see if all of the grain matches around the entire piece that is visible.
Some of the more vague look for the hotel furniture are the overall feel. The furniture should not make any creaking sound and remain stable. The drawers should move smoothly in and out easily and there should not be any gaps between drawers if they are not part of the design. The door has to have proper alignment for smooth function. The drawer pulls and knobs should be the best quality possible. A final test is if you look at the back, is it completely finished and even though the wood on the back should be of lower quality, did they take the time to finish the item properly instead of just stapling the back on.
You should know and feel quality when you see it in great hotel furniture. Use my guide for further research on it.
