How old are my drawers? Researching second-hand furniture.
Over the time I spent living in furnished rented houses, I became very tired of cheap furniture. The kind of cheap furniture that only landlords buy. The kind of cheap furniture that IKEA makes for the sole purpose of making you buy the more expensive one because it suddenly seems like a good deal compared the the bottom-of-the-range model. In other words, new cheap furniture. I'm sure reasonable-value new furniture exists. I'm aware that there's a reason cheap furniture is the way it is: making furniture out of lightweight honeycomb materials or any of the wood-and-resin based particle boards is a more efficient use of materials, lighter to transport, and easier to manufacture than using traditional techniques. I'm sure that the wood resources of the world couldn't support the quantity of home furnishing we currently use if it was made from solid boards. But I'd had enough of drawer bottoms made from what appeared to be cereal boxes, and objects that had been...