Furniture is the most basic necessity of every complete house. In the absence of furniture, a house cannot be thought of as a complete entity. Therefore, furniture is something where people are always ready to spend a considerable amount of money, when bought for the first time. Nevertheless, it should be kept in mind that furniture is not among those commodities that require spending money on them each year. It is something that one wishes to buy with a life time guarantee or a much longer spam of life line.

As is known to everyone that furniture is now available in several different designs offered by different makes and models of the manufacturers and hence, it is not easy to choose the best among all the available designs and styles. People have unique and different tastes for their interior décor and arrangement of furniture, but it is not easy to make the best choice, as a wide variety of furniture styles and chic are available in the market. The range varies from the most antique styled pieces to the most modern and dandy looking furniture items. From historic to the groovy and stylish furniture items, all come in a variety of designs, sizes, and structures.

When one decides to buy furniture for use in home, it is better to sort out and group the styles and types of furniture into classes, depending upon the basic features of the similar categories. This will help in better understanding of the design or model that one wants to purchase.

Furniture items have a really rich history, starting from the time back in the seventeenth century when a basic concept of furniture was being laid upon the base of adding a beauty in the house, also fulfilling the needs of storage and accommodation of different house hold items. In the earliest times, the furniture was made of dark wood, with a mediaeval style that was named as American style furniture and it came with its origin in Europe. In the beginning in seventeenth century, the furniture had a very simple, plain and uncomplicated making with plain seats fixed on straight wooden legs, as chairs and with no arm rests. With the passage of time and up gradation in the manufacturing processes in the 18^th and 19^th century, the designs were modified by just adding a touch of hankering and craving certain patterns at the back of chairs. With the advent of twentieth century, chairs were again modeled and this time these were given elaborate and obscure patterns with styled and structured arrangement of different curved shapes as well. The furniture in earlier times was much heavier in weight and their mobility was an issue, however, later by the twentieth century usage of light wood was being made for furniture manufacturing, in order to facilitate in portability and movement.

Different types of wooden styled furniture have evolved through different periods in history influenced by different trends. The most common and in fashion styles include the popular Jacobeans style, William and Mary style, Colonial style, Queen Anne style, Georgian style, Chippendale style, Robert Adam style, Hepplewhite, Federal, Sheraton, Shaker, Victorian, Arts and Crafts, and the Scandinavian Contemporary style.