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Oak Furniture

We believe we offer one of the widest selections of oak bedroom furniture, oak dining room furniture and oak living room furniture on any online retail site in the UK. Not all oak ranges are the same but if you want light oak furniture, oak veneer furniture or just cheap oak furniture (though we prefer to call it good value!) then there is something to suit.

Choose from contemporary or traditional styles and wax or lacquer finishes. Can't see what you want on this page? Then try the oak ranges in our Dark Wood and Rustic categories.

Whatever you choose, you can be sure it is from a top quality furniture manufacturer, such as Devonshire Pine Ltd .
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RPF French Style Oak Bedroom Furniture
This solid oak bedroom furniture range combines top quality with low prices to offer excellent value.  This range is typical of the French rural style.  It has less ornamentation but still retains a Gallic flou..
 
RPF Vancouver Oak Bedroom Range
Contemporary style, fully assembled oak bedroom furniture in a lacquer finish for unbelievable prices!
 
ASL Brooklyn Oak Bedroom Range
Popular contemporary style bedroom range in oak
 
RPF French Style Oak Dining and Living Room Furniture
This solid oak dining and living room furniture range combines top quality with low prices to offer excellent value.  This range is typical of the French rural style.  It has less ornamentation but still retain..
 
RPF Vancouver Oak Living and Dining Range
Contemporary style, fully assembled oak furniture in a lacquer finish for unbelievable prices.
 
ASL Brooklyn Oak Dining and Living Room ranges
Contemporary style light oak living and dining room furniture
 
Evergreen Modica Solid Oak Bedroom Range
The Number One contemporary oak bedroom furniture range in the UK.  Solid oak throughout including drawers and cabinet backs.  Unbeatable quality for the price
 
Evergreen Country Rustic Oak Bedroom range
Solid, best quality oak bedroom furniture from Evergreen in a lightly distressed rustic style with black metal fittings
 
Evergreen Monza Solid Oak Bedroom Collection
Similar to Evergreen's Modica Oak range, the Monza range differs in having square-edged tops and wooden door and drawer knobs in place of steel
 
Evergreen Modica Solid Oak Dining Range
The Number One contemporary oak dining and living room ranges in the UK.  Solid oak throughout including drawers and cabinet backs.  Unbeatable quality for the price
 
Evergreen Country Rustic Oak Occasional range
Solid, good quality oak dining and living room furniture from Evergreen Furniture in a lightly distressed rustic style with black metal fittings
 
PD Global Yorke Solid Oak Living Room Collection
A charming collection of solid oak living room furniture in a contemporary style
 
Evergreen Modica Dark Oak Bedroom Range
Luxurious, rich dark version of Evergreen's Modica Bedroom range.  Top quality and excellent value.
 
Core Sherwood Natural Solid Ash Bedroom Furniture
Contemporary-style bedroom range of self assembly furniture in ash.  Similar in appearance to oak.
 
DFP Oakhampton Dining Room & Occasional Furniture
An attractive blend of oak and ash timbers, producing a blond hardwood dining and living room furniture collection at an appealing price
 
DFP Trafalgar Rustic Oak Dining and Living room range
Perhaps the best quality range of rustic style, solid oak dining and living room furniture.  Cleverly distressed and completed with top quality metal fittings
 
DFP Trafalgar Rustic Oak Bedroom Furniture range
One of the best ranges of rustic style solid oak bedroom furniture.  Distressed finish and top quality steel fittings
 
PD Global Hampshire living room range in tropical hardwood
Contemporary-style living room range, designed using simple lines and fashioned from the attractive tropical hardwood Sungkai.
 
ASL Brampton Rustic Oak Bedroom range
Distressed, rustic-style solid oak bedroom furniture with black metal drop handles
 
ASL Brampton Rustic Oak Dining and Living room range
Distressed, rustic-style solid oak dining and living room furniture with black metal fittings
 
PD Global Solid Beech Chairs
Various styles of Windsor chairs and carvers, plus some traditional style railbacks all in a choice of finishes
 
ASL Ashley Ash Bedroom Collection
Beautiful contemporary style, solid hardwood bedroom furniture with clean lines and smart bright metal fittings
 
PD Global MILAN Dining and Living in Blond Hardwood
Named after the city famed for its stylish connections, this smart contemporary style range of dining and living room furniture is solidly-made in exotic hardwoods
 
CPW Tuscany Oak Range
Modern style oak living and dining room furniture. Simple styling and black metal bar door and drawer handles
 
YP Henley Oak Bedroom Furniture Collection
The Henley Bedroom Collection has a stylish, contemporary look and is presented in a Natural Oak finish. Brushed chrome handles and distinctive inlays of coconut complete the look.
 
KT Hampton Living and Dining Room Collection
Contemporary style dining and living room furniture in solid White Oak.  Features square door and drawer knobs in metal
 
YP Henley Oak Living and Dining Room Furniture
The Henley bedroom, living and dining room collections are all fully assembled furniture ranges made from American Oak.  They have a stylish, contemporary look and are presented in Natural Oak.
 
FL Eve Dining and Living Room ranges
A contemporary style furniture which is presented in an oak colouring with a lacquer finish.  
Brushed aluminium fittings complete the look and the overall effect
 
PD Global Old Cotswold oak furniture
Billed as contemporary style by the manufacturers but actually a collection of sturdy, solid oak living and dining room furniture in a rustic vernacular style with a lightly distressed finish
 
FL Staten Dining and Living Room ranges in Oak
A range which has a style that is subtly understated, resulting in an elegant contemporary style of furniture.
 
DFP Stamford White Oak Dining Furniture
Modest range of White Oak dining room furniture in a contemporary style
 
Evergreen Mayfair Oak Office Furniture
A modest collection of high quality solid oak office furniture, compatible with items from the Modica solid oak ranges.
 
Oak furniture ranges and manufacturers
Our oak furniture section includes over three dozen ranges of oak furniture, plus a selection of comparable quality ash furniture, from nine manufacturers.  One of the most popular ranges is the New Solid Oak collection from West Country-based Devonshire Pine Ltd.  This includes living room furniture, dining room furniture and bedroom furniture.  Some of the most impressive items are the dining tables, dressers and wardrobes which really show the quality of the furniture and represent excellent value for money.   

For cosumers it can be hard to compare 'like for like' furniture ranges, one example of this is the Brooklyn Oak Furniture range.

A low cost way for Devon Pine to broaden the appeal of the bedroom range was to offer it in square and dark stain versions.  The Square Oak range can be distinguished from the solid oak range by the square-edged tops to cabinets and the change from metal handles to wooden knobs.  Dark wood furniture is less popular than it once was, but the richness of the colour still maintains a loyal following.  The company caters to this with their Dark Oak range, which is essentially the same construction as the Devon New Oak range but completed with a dark stain before the final coat of lacquer.   

Following the success of these ranges, Devonshirepine.co.uk, introduced a rustic range in 2008.  The Rustic Oak range includes the same high standards of construction, with features such as dovetail joints to drawers and solid timber cabinet backs and drawer bases.  But it also has a much heavier styling with, for example, noticeably thicker cabinet tops.  This is completed with chunky, dark metal, handles and a distressed finish with features such as rounded corners and surface marks.  Rustic furniture is a popular style and competition is fierce, but this range is selling well, thanks no doubt to the high quality construction and finish from this supplier.   

Some people like the heavy style of the rustic range, but prefer a slightly less rustic appearance and to cater for this market, Devon Oak has subsequently introduced the Distressed Oak range, also sometimes called the Chunky Oak range.  This enjoys a similarly heavyweight style of construction but corners are left square instead of rounded and although there are still ‘distress’ marks and imperfections these are more restrained than the rustic range.   

A supplier at the other end of the scale in terms of size is ASL.  This company is also based in Devon, but this time nearer to the south east borders of the county.  It supplies two ranges of bedroom and living room furniture and a range of oak office furniture, the Cambridge Office range.  Like its larger counterpart to the west, the company’s contemporary-styled collection has minimalist styling and is completed with brushed metal handles.  In acknowledgement perhaps of the ancient Celtic associations of the region, the range is called the Derwen range (Derwen being the Welsh word for oak).   

In addition to its contemporary oak range, the little company also supplies a very competitively-priced rustic range called the Brampton range.  This offers an attractive selection of bedroom and lounge furniture items such as coffee tables, bookcases and chests of drawers, all with good quality metal fittings and an authentically ‘distressed’ finish.   

Whilst still on the subject of small suppliers and rustic furniture, there is another company called DFP or Direct Forest Products that produces a truly excellent range of rustic furniture.  This is the Trafalgar range of bedroom and living room furniture.  It is made of solid oak and the fittings are very good quality.  But perhaps the best features are the good colour tone, that looks like a weathered or sun bleached dark oak; the finish which is not too glossy and the distressing which is convincingly understated.   

More noted for its good quality, traditional-style, pine furniture than its oak ranges is Sussex-based CPW.  This is not surprising for a company that was established by stripping old pine furniture (the letters stand for Country Pine Warehouse) but, that said, it’s ranges of oak furniture offer a successful combination of good quality construction, good design and good materials.  The Wealden and Tuscany ranges have a contemporary styling, although the sharp lines on some pieces are sometimes reminiscent of Arts & Crafts or Art Deco styling.  

Those looking for cheap furniture, but who still prefer wooden furniture to some of the composite material offerings from some DIY and lifestyle stores, might wish to consider the ranges from our supplier of self-assembly ranges, Core Products.  Core specialises in sourcing better quality flat pack furniture from around the world.  It is a major UK supplier of Mexican furniture but its Vermont ranges of bedroom and living room furniture are made of a blend of hardwoods that, if not actually solid oak, certainly look the part.   

The home address for Coreproducts.co.uk is in Perth, Scotland but roughly half way between here and CPW, in the county that calls itself ‘the Heart of England,’ is another well established company, Kettle Containers Ltd.  Originally set up to import furniture by the (shipping) container-load, Kettle is now developing its operations to the extent that it has changed its name to Kettle Interiors.  Whatever the name, kettle-containers.co.uk currently supplies a contemporary-style range of bedroom and living room furniture called, the Contemporary range(!) and a rustic-style collection that goes by the name of the Rutland range.  These are fully assembled ranges of a dependable quality and finish, although not all pieces are perhaps as keenly priced as some of their competitors.   

It is easy sometimes for suppliers to fall into the trap of always taking the safe option when it comes to furniture styles, but one company that appears consistently to produce furniture that is fashionable, fun and competitively priced is PD Global.  This company, for example, was one of the first to introduce various ranges of painted furniture as it started to become popular and it happily supplies traditional and contemporary ranges of oak furniture.  The traditional offerings include the Cotswold collection that we at Right Price Furniture call Old Cotswold to avoid confusion with an existing pine range of the same name.   

PDG’s contemporary oak range is the Yorke range.  This comprises various items of living room furniture including an attractive corner TV cabinet.  Pdglobal.co.uk does not sell direct to the public but we offer most of their ranges and are happy to try and accommodate requests for any of the company’s products not listed on our website.   

The history of oak furniture
In the UK, Oak furniture has been the preferred choice for centuries.  The timber has so many fine qualities that it was historically a universal building material and references to oak are deeply embedded in British culture in many forms.  These range from the Pagan 'Green Man' to the names of public houses and even the official march of the Royal Navy.  

Antique oak furniture would have been made of English oak or the highly-prized Welsh oak, but the depredations of the Industrial Revolution and two World Wars mean supplies of these British oak stocks are limited and very expensive.  A more affordable source of oak for furniture is North America  where, for example, much of the oak furniture from Devonshire Pine Ltd is sourced.

Have you ever wondered...

why some oak furniture seems to be better quality or more attractive than other oak furniture, even though it’s all solid oak? And why is it sometimes better to have furniture that is NOT solid oak all the way through? We aim to provide beginners with an insight into identifying the best quality oak furniture and choosing the most suitable furniture for their homes.

Not all oak is the same

People sometimes forget that oak is a natural product. Manufacturers and cabinet makers supplying oak furniture do, on the whole, a good job of matching the colour and grain pattern so that every item they make matches the other items from that range. They are skilled in taking hundreds or even thousands of individual trees and displaying their unique grain patterns in furniture yet all the while closely matching elements such as colour tone and the distribution of knots with the hundreds of other trees being used.

400 species of oak

Apart from the uniqueness of the individual oak tree, there is also the fact that the oak family has in excess of 400 different species, distributed through Europe, Asia, North and South America and extending from the coldest northern climates to tropical regions. The oak traditionally used for furniture in Britain and Europe would, not surprisingly, be the European White Oaks. These tend to be the oaks of the highest quality for furniture making, in terms of strength and appearance. When European settlers moved to North America they sought trees that were similar to those they already used and American Red Oaks can offer many similar qualities.

Oak that grows further afield, in places such as Asia, still has many of the qualities of its European counterparts although locally it does not enjoy the same pre-eminence amongst trees. It may be competing against species such as teak or mahogany that are even better adapted to the local climate.

Knots and splits

A knot forms wherever a branch grows out of an existing trunk or stem. This is a part of the natural process but, as with everything else, man has progressively selected oaks for timber production that tend to produce long, knot-free lengths of wood. The knarled oaks favoured in picture books and fairy stories are not the ones used for timber production. Careful timber management, such as removing the lower branches from the growing tree, also helps improve the timber quality of the tree when it is finally harvested. It will be appreciated therefore, that the better quality furniture oak will have fewer and smaller knots.

Splitting and warping of oak furniture

All oak will split or warp if it is not used correctly and the fault can lie with the user of the furniture just as much as the maker. The process that occurs is a simple one: the stem or branch of the living oak transports hundreds of gallons of water from the ground to the leaves and branches. When the tree is harvested it still contains much of this water, which must be removed to help preserve the timber.

Seasoning is the process of drying the timber to remove the moisture. If carried out too quickly, the spaces left in the timber as the water disappears will be taken up by the fibres of the wood moving closer together, causing the timber to lose its original shape and warp. If the wood fibres are unable to move closer together, perhaps because of the shape into which the timber has been sawn, then they will instead tear apart, causing the splits that can often be seen in, for example, timber beams.

Timber will continue to dry out even after seasoning, so furniture makers have developed several techniques to avoid warps and splits occurring in the finished products. One of these is to form wide panels by gluing together several narrower strips of timber. The narrow strips are arranged so the tendency for one strip to curve in one direction is counteracted by its neighbour’s tendency to curve in the opposite direction. How successfully the colour and grain pattern of the different strips match together depends on the quality of the timber and the skill of the furniture maker. Some makers overcome the problem by adding a layer of veneer to give a perfect, uninterrupted grain pattern across the whole panel.

Drawer bases and cabinet backs are particular problem areas and the traditional solution has always been to build the drawer in such a way that the timber could expand and contract across the width of its grain by allowing movement for the base at the back of the drawer. On cabinet backs the timber planks were fitted with the grain running horizontally, so allowing the expansion or contraction to take place out of sight at the base of the cabinet.

The effects of central heating on solid wood furniture

Since the advent of central heating the atmosphere in homes has been much warmer and drier and this has caused problems for all wooden furniture. The effects on older or antique furniture have been lessened as this furniture has been continually drying out since it was first made. Makers of new furniture have tried to overcome the problems by using some of the construction techniques mentioned above and by drying more of the moisture out of timber before it is used.

However, if the owners of new oak furniture place it in rooms that are even dryer or warmer than the average then warping or, more usually, splitting is likely to be a problem. In these cases it may be better to purchase oak furniture constructed using a combination of man-made materials and solid oak. This is because the man-made materials are more stable in warm, dry environments while the natural wood can be retained to preserve an attractive appearance to the furniture.
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