The most popular material in use to make furniture has been, and probably will be for many years to come, wood. The wood can be categorized in a couple of distinct groups namely hardwood and softwood.
Hardwood is considered the most prized type of wood, it comes from longer lived deciduous trees in the main and they produce high quality wood such as oak, beech and ash. The lumber that you get from hardwood trees have less imperfections than what you will find from softwood trees.
