Maple Bar Stools

Maple is a terrific type of wood for all kinds of furniture, including bar stools. It is a very hard wood, making often-used items like a bar stool much more durable than those made from softer woods. Maple is also quite beautiful and has been much sought after by furniture makers for centuries.

Maple has a lighter color than most other woods used to manufacture furniture. This makes it an ideal choice for homes or businesses with wood décor that needs lighter coloring to complement the room. You can stay with the wood motif and still get some color variety by adding a maple bar stool (or a set of them).

Maple can also come in a reddish color, although this is rarer. This offers more versatility and, therefore, more choices for you as a bar stool shopper. The red maple stools typically cost a bit more, but the price difference is minimal.

Another feature that recommends maple is the grain's similarity to cherry. Cherry wood has also been highly prized by furniture makers for generations. You will find some maple bar stools that are stained to match cherry's color and will be seen by all but experts as cherry (a more expensive wood).

Because maple is such a hard wood, it is significantly more resistant to dents, scratches, and abrasions than many other woods used to make bar stools. This is an important consideration if you plan to put a bar stool in your home or a business where you anticipate heavy use. This wood can withstand a lot of abuse.

If you ever wish to use a stain or apply enamel to a maple bar stool, it's a wood that handles such applications well. It's not the best (being a hard wood), but the results are often quite beautiful. Many folks opt for unfinished maple furniture, which is nice by itself. However, it's a comfort to know that you can change the look later on if you ever want or need to.

 

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