The aesthetic design and proportion of furniture legs are the difference between heaven and earth. This time, let's talk about the materials themselves, their names and functions, whether they match, and whether they can stand up.

 

About the choice of furniture legs

In the modern industrial system, except for a few inferior products, there is basically no instability problem in furniture legs. The biggest factor in choosing furniture legs is actually texture and appearance.

 

Furniture leg materials are divided into three categories: metal, wood, and plastic. Under the big categories, there are also subdivided materials: · Metal stainless steel, aluminum, iron (carbon steel), solid wood, synthetic wood board, acrylic

 

Currently, the most mainstream furniture legs are still metal. Metal furniture legs. These furniture legs are scored based on appearance, service life, diversity, price and style matching. Let's analyze in detail what kind of budget and needs, and what kind of furniture legs are suitable for you.

 

Online purchases are not like offline entities, which can be intuitively felt and experienced up close. In fact, stainless steel, a relatively expensive metal, is very disadvantaged. Because they are all pictures, carbon steel can also be repaired very beautifully for you. If you go to a high-end offline store, you will find stainless steel and aluminum alloys almost without exception.

 

＞＞Stainless steel

Appearance: 9 points, stainless steel has the best texture and is a relatively advanced material among metals. It has strong ductility, and the surface can be brushed, mirror polished, and plated. After fine processing, it is a real beauty leader.

 

Service life: 8 points, fireproof, moisture-proof, anti-magnetic, anti-corrosion, not easy to deform and crack. There are few household metals that are more worry-free than it, and you don't need to spend too much time maintaining it. Therefore, the service life of stainless steel is much longer than other metals.

 

Now high-end stainless steel will be anti-fingerprint treated when doing electroplating mirror process. If you want to choose mirror stainless steel, you can give priority to anti-fingerprint treatment~

 

Diversity: 7 points, there are many choices. With different processing techniques, you can present different textures, colors and shapes through bright surface grinding, frosting, brushing, plating and other processes. Stainless steel furniture legs on the market come in a variety of shapes, including round, semi-circular, square, and round with square. The furniture legs that were originally only used to provide support have become pleasing to the eye.

 

Price: 3 points, which is many times more expensive than carbon steel, and also has something to do with the standards used for stainless steel. For example, the price difference between 201 and 304 is quite large.

 

For ordinary furniture legs, 201 is actually enough. However, even 201 stainless steel is several times more expensive than carbon steel! In terms of price, stainless steel cannot get a very high score. But if your budget is over $700 to buy a sofa, we will first recommend you to buy a sofa with stainless steel legs. So the price score is relatively just a reference.

 

Style matching: 7 points Because of the different colors and surface processes, it can be matched with many styles. Mirror stainless steel - future, modern. Brushed stainless steel - retro, gorgeous. Frosted stainless steel - calm, low-key. Titanium black stainless steel - modern, neat.

 

Conclusion: easy to use and durable. Good-looking and durable. If you have enough budget and want to buy a textured dining table, you can directly choose stainless steel.

 

＞＞Aluminum

When decorating, many people frequently come into contact with aluminum. For example, aluminum doors and windows, hardware accessories, and furniture legs are not unfamiliar to everyone. Many people are actually not clear about the performance of aluminum in furniture legs.

 

Aluminum generally appears in furniture in the form of alloy. Because although pure aluminum has good ductility and light weight, it is not hard enough. Aluminum alloy has the advantages of aluminum corrosion resistance, light weight, and good ductility. At the same time, the hardness is enhanced, high temperature resistance, and convenient welding.

 

Therefore, in the furniture industry, there has been a trend of customizing all-aluminum furniture, such as cabinets, sofa legs, and dining table legs. Speaking of the positioning of aluminum as furniture legs, it is actually consistent with the positioning of aluminum as a material. Ranking by price and appearance: stainless steel>aluminum>iron. So aluminum is more or less awkward.

 

Appearance: 6 points, not as advanced as stainless steel in appearance, but can also be made fine. In terms of appearance, it is a critical hit iron furniture legs, not as good as the top, but much more than the bottom.

 

Service life: 8 points. Aluminum is wear-resistant, fireproof, and moisture-proof. Compared with iron, its service life is much longer. The cost is higher, lower than stainless steel, but about 3 to 4 times higher than iron products. One thing to note is that aluminum, as a metal, must be sprayed on the surface, and the spraying process is also a test of technology.

 

Diversity: 3 points. Aluminum must fail in diversity. The main reason is that it needs to be molded, and it does not have the same good molding and extensibility as stainless steel. In fact, if you look carefully, except for a few minimalist legs of furniture feet are aluminum, other aluminum profile furniture feet are very few.

 

Price: 8 points, stainless steel> aluminum> iron. In terms of absolute material prices, aluminum alloy is actually not advantageous. Don't forget what we just said, aluminum alloy furniture feet are all molded, unlike stainless steel, almost every one requires manual welding.

 

In the case of mass production, the price of some aluminum alloy furniture feet can be on par with carbon steel. Do you understand? If you don't care about the style you use at home, which is a common style from several years ago, and you want better performance than carbon steel, then choose aluminum alloy!

 

Style matching: 2 points, because there are few styles, the style matching is naturally less. Currently, there are only 1-2 minimalist dining tables sold in the mainstream market. In addition to modern and Italian styles, there are almost no other styles that can match.

 

Conclusion: If you want to choose metal furniture legs and pursue cost-effectiveness, you can choose aluminum. Aluminum and stainless steel have good load-bearing capacity.

 

＞＞Iron

In fact, everyone thinks that iron is not high-end, so the industry has changed its name to carbon steel. You hear it a bit like the past. Few people say that they are iron sofas on their product pages. But there are many people who type out the words carbon steel and carbon steel.

 

Appearance: 2 points, carbon steel is the lowest grade among metals, and the furniture made with it is really lacking in texture. The characteristics of the material determine that its workmanship is a bit rough. Even if there is good technology, it is a waste to use it on it, which raises the price, but the material cannot withstand such technology. It is a pure waste, and no one buys it.

 

Service life: 3 points. If the surface process is not properly handled, it will rust if used in a humid environment. Don't listen to the merchants who say that it will not rust. In fact, the coating can only withstand for a period of time.

 

Diversity: 8 points. Whatever color you want, you can get it. It is quite diverse. It is a rare advantage among various characteristics.

 

Price: 7 points. Among metals, the material is the cheapest and the painting process is also the cheapest, so the price is the lowest. If the quality is average, it will be idle even if it is bought cheaply, which is not very cost-effective. However, if the standard is just cheap, then it must get 10 points.

 

Style matching: 4 points. If the home decoration pursues texture, it will really be a failure. It can be said that carbon steel = low-end products, and it is really difficult to make exquisite. But! Our philosophy is never to persuade you to buy the most expensive product, but to buy the most suitable product for yourself. If your budget is in the range of 500-1000 US dollars and you want to buy a sofa that looks good, carbon steel is your choice~