Home Trends Direct
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Solid wood behaves differently from veneer once it has lived in a room for a few years. Edges soften, the surface darkens a little where hands rest, and the table starts to look like it belongs to the house. That is the appeal of Home Trends Direct furniture. It is made by Home Trends & Design, which describes its work as eco-conscious, handmade solid wood furniture for the trade, with roots in Austin, Texas and Jodhpur, India since 2005. The company is also a founding member of the Sustainable Furnishings Council.
At AURA the Home Trends Direct collection is led by dining tables, then dining chairs and side tables. Counter stools come next, an easy match for our dark academia kitchen and bar pieces in a darker kitchen. Sideboards, coffee tables, benches and beds fill out the rest. That weighting makes it a dining-room brand first and a deep source of solid wood high end furniture for everywhere else. If you are building out luxury dining room furniture around a solid wood table, this is a good place to start.
Home Trends and Design Solid Wood Dining Tables
The 54" White Wood Dining Table Seats 4 shows the small end of the range, sized for an eat-in kitchen or a compact dining room. A white table keeps a small room bright and lets the chairs carry the color. In a larger room, a longer table in natural or brown wood holds the space better, because a pale top at that size can start to look like a slab of light.
Leave room to pull the chairs out
The mistake to avoid is sizing the table to the room instead of to the clearance. Leave at least 36" between the table edge and the nearest wall or furniture, and 42" or more where people walk behind seated guests. A table that fits but leaves no room to sit down is the wrong table.
Dining bench or dining chairs?
Benches are part of the collection, and a bench along one side of a table seats more people in less width and tucks fully underneath. It suits families and casual meals. Chairs suit longer dinners. Many rooms do best with a bench on the wall side and chairs facing it.
Home Trends Direct Counter Stools
Counter stools are one of the larger groups in the line, and they turn a kitchen island from workspace into the place everyone gathers. On a standard 36" counter, a seat 24" to 26" high leaves about 10" of knee room under the overhang.
Home Trends Direct Living Room Furniture
The line reaches into the living room with leather seating and media storage. The Brown Leather Sofa Couch for Living Room and the Black Leather 3 Seater Sofa Couch for Living Room give you two very different moods: brown warms a room and ages into it, while black reads sharper and more graphic. The 63" Brown Live Edge Wood TV Stand Media Console with Storage puts a natural wood edge under the television, which softens the hardest-looking object in most luxury living room furniture layouts.
Live edge wood in a real room
A live edge draws the eye along its length, so keep what sits on top of it simple. One plant or one stack of books lets the edge do its job.
Home Trends Direct Sideboards and Bedroom Pieces
Sideboards, beds and dressers carry the solid wood look through the rest of the house. The 51" Brown Wood Sideboard Buffet Cabinet with 3 Drawers is a compact choice for a dining wall or a hallway, with drawers for the flatware and linens that never seem to have a home.
Solid Wood That Settles Into the House
Buy solid wood for the room it will become, not the room it is today. A few years of use will warm it, and that is the point.