| I was looking for a coffee table but didn't want a | | | | replace it in solid wood, the bunk beds are getting |
| veneer top, I wanted solid wood. She started telling me | | | | cheaper and cheaper with quality suffering terribly. I |
| about the state of furniture manufacturers in the | | | | started looking around my house at the stuff I thought |
| states. She told me that 85% of furniture | | | | was junk, it is all solid and in need of refurnishing but |
| manufactures have gone out of business in the last 3 | | | | maybe I will keep it after all and add a few fun new |
| years, all the textile mills and most of the wood supply | | | | pieces to it. |
| sources. I was stunned as she told me that most of | | | | It make me stop and think about the confidence we |
| the furniture is coming from China, cheaply made and | | | | have in foreign imports, we have given them the horse, |
| now that they have the market without much | | | | the barn and the tools and have left ourselves with |
| competition the prices for second rate furniture is sky | | | | only hope and faith that they will continue to supply our |
| rocketing. She told me to keep our solid wood furniture | | | | every increasing needs for goods. We all need |
| and hang on to pieces and refinish them wherever | | | | furniture here in Shreveport, lets just hope we can |
| possible. I have an old solid oak bunk bed from when I | | | | continue to get quality built furniture at reasonable |
| was little, I don't really like it, it has been used and | | | | prices. |
| abused, but she said it would almost be impossible to | | | | |