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Re:Why are most sofas so bad? by nntwozz on Thursday March 14, 2024 @06:14PM (#39709576)
That's because old furniture is usually made of heartwood and not the cheaper sapwood part of the tree; I like to call it cardboard furniture.

Same goes for old wooden windows etc. that can last a hundred years or more if properly taken care of.

"Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work you can always hit them with it." — Boris 'The Blade' Yurinov

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Re:Why are most sofas so bad? by ghaff on Thursday March 14, 2024 @06:20PM (#39709628)
>Same goes for old wooden windows etc. that can last a hundred years or more if properly taken care of.

The key may be the "properly taken care of" part (or they didn't buy crap at the time part).

I live in a greater than 200 year old house and all the older windows dating to whenever are complete crap compared to newer Andersens I've had installed.

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Re:Why are most sofas so bad? by RogerL on Thursday March 14, 2024 @07:08PM (#39710067)
Survivorship bias. The cheap stuff doesn't last. "Take from the dresser of deal, Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet..." - Wallace Stevens, 1922. "Deal" being cheap pine or other soft heartwood (in the poem he is trying to evoke a scene of poverty and maybe a bit of gaudiness). Not that buying old can't be an excellent strategy, it having survived either a long life, or perhaps it was just never used in which case all bets are off.
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