| Furniture has been around for as long as humans have | | | | furniture is another story. Essentially early man would |
| been around. As far as the animal kingdom goes we | | | | carry his dining room furniture with him and set up his |
| are the only species who adorn their homes with | | | | table and chairs wherever he managed to catch a |
| furniture. That's not to say the Mr Caveman on return | | | | buffalo. This use of portable dining room furniture was |
| from a successful hunting trip with his son didn't relax | | | | a most excellent choice for early man as they were |
| upon a fine buffalo leather skin sofa in his living room | | | | predominantly nomadic so having your furniture with |
| with a fresh cup of nettle tea on the coffee table of | | | | you was paramount. In terms of dining room furniture |
| course. There is evidence that early man made an | | | | we assume it was mostly cutlery in flint form and a |
| attempt at at least decorating his home. This, in the | | | | skin to sit on but very soon as man settled in each |
| early days, was mostly confined to rubbing mucky | | | | continent and they socialised around the fire in the |
| hand prints on the walls and scratching animal shapes | | | | lounge there must have come a time when dining |
| onto the living room wall. Early mans flock wallpaper if | | | | room furniture was needed. The multi functional leather |
| you will. In the absence of Laurence Llewelyn Bowen | | | | sofas come beds come carpet then transformed into |
| or Linda Barker, early man shrugged the need to adorn | | | | dining room chairs too, without doubt. Soon they would |
| his home in the fineries of MDF board furniture and | | | | have been sat about the dining room chomping into |
| rather begin the process of creating a comfortable | | | | their daily catches wondering if there was a need for |
| home for his family that was centered about the | | | | an entertainment unit or in fact what one actually was! |
| fireplace in a very practical solution to bring the living | | | | As man became increasingly lazy he invented all types |
| room, dining room and bedroom into the single abode | | | | of furniture to make his laziness even more lazy. Long |
| solving many issues we seem to have made worse | | | | before the use of transport or appliances early man |
| these days. Sociability for one was at it's height in our | | | | would have created wood furniture to make relaxing |
| early ancestry. Granted, you were likely to be stabbed | | | | at home better. It wasn't long, in geological terms at |
| wandering accidentally onto your neighbours garden | | | | least, that early man began to separate the rooms and |
| but let's face facts that was replaced by shooting in | | | | this gave rise to the living room, dining room and |
| the Americas and is still sadly a popular pastime. | | | | bedrooms that we know today. In the Iron Ages great |
| What could be more social than gathering around the | | | | halls where the norm. Rather than natural caves our |
| fire pit after a hard day hunting? The living room of | | | | ancestors started to build caves from dung, mud and |
| early man was an all in one affair not dissimilar to the | | | | twigs. Think DIY SOS. Much the same format was |
| bedsit accept with many more creature comforts. The | | | | required. A central fire with sofas around it and toward |
| bedroom for example was also part of the living room | | | | the edges the bedroom furniture was placed. Again |
| and although bedroom furniture was hit and miss it had | | | | highly social but not very private. The great halls where |
| one feature handed down through the eons, the bed. | | | | more likely to be dining rooms for feasting and general |
| The bed is perhaps the centre of all bedrooms and as | | | | gatherings like council meetings for example only more |
| far as the bedroom furniture goes is paramount to get | | | | organised. |
| the right blend of style with comfort. Our early man | | | | The early dark ages started to see furniture take |
| would have likely stuffed an old skin with heather and | | | | shape. Our friends in the Iron Age kept their furniture |
| grass to fashion a comfortable bed. This bedroom | | | | relatively basic but the advent of the Dark Ages saw |
| furniture was also Living room furniture as it's likely | | | | style being brought into the design of home furniture. |
| they made comfy leather sofas too. So early man | | | | Rooms where also starting to be divided as mankind |
| began the furniture revolution through necessity rather | | | | realised the trouble of bringing the in-laws in for |
| than fashion and although the early formation of the | | | | Christmas. The need to be private increased and gave |
| continents was yet to be realised there's almost no | | | | rise to the bedroom and of course bedroom furniture. It |
| doubt they had individual tribal styles akin to the French | | | | wasn't until relatively later that the dining room started |
| style furniture, Indian, Italian styles and doubtless | | | | to take shape and soon after that specialist dining |
| something on offer from IKEA too although unlikely as | | | | room furniture styles began to arrive. |
| we believe even IKEA aren't that old!dining room | | | | |