This is a quick and easy to understand guide to learn some popular information about furnitures. If you have a term or phrase that you want to learn more about, click on its beginning letter down below.
This glossary of common furniture terms may help familiarizing yourself with furnitures. It may also help improving your product knowledge on different kind of furnitures, and on furniture construction as well.
Furniture terms
Fancy-faced Veneers - Veneers cut in an exotic pattern usually used in more visible areas of wooden furniture (e.g. door fronts, table tops).
Fiberboard - A board made of compressed wood fibers and glue, used in place of solid wood to effectively reduce costs of production.
Fiddle back - A chair designed with the splat resembling a violin's shape.
Filling - The step in the finishing process where the back filling of natural pores found in wood allows the surface to become smoother, flatter and more reflective.
Finger Joint - A type of joinery where two pieces of wood are cut in an elongated Zigzag pattern and joined together with glue.
Finial - A turned or carved piece at the top of a post or the piece that holds the shade to the harp of a lamp.
Fluting - A series of carved out semi-circular grooves usually found on columns, molding or wooden legs.
French Bed - A bed in which the ends roll outward. It has no posts.
Fretwork - Perforated ornamental decorative wood work.
Four Poster - A colonial bed with four posts extending upward that may or may not hold a canopy.
Futon - A wooden sofa frame featuring a large single cushion where the frame and cushion can be unfolded to use as a bed.
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