Oak furniture is both timeless and beautiful, especially when it is taking up residence in a bedroom. What is for certain about finely detailed oak is that it is almost universally liked when it comes to material for furniture. It can produce beautiful looking pieces that really stand out, especially when used to make beds, dressers and chests of drawers.

Anyone who has had even a passing familiarity with oak can tell you that it is a heavy, sturdy material. It also is a kind of wood that works well when it comes to building a chest or some other piece of bedroom furniture. It'll certainly come out looking highly finished and extremely polished in its grain, which helps it to separate itself from other kinds of wood. It'll always be beautiful, in other words.

Throughout the centuries, oak has been used to make some of the most attractive furniture available. There is certainly no lack of examples of oak bedroom furniture in many of the palaces and castles of Europe, including at Buckingham Palace or the French Palace of Versailles. Many a royal family took care to order their craftsmen to produce oak furniture of extreme beauty and detail.

Most bedroom furniture comprised of oak will usually include at least a headboard, a chest and a dresser, which will sometimes have a mirror that is also framed in oak. Oak is also a wood that lends itself well to finishing and staining in light or dark. There are also other pieces that can be added to the basic oak bedroom set, including a nightstand and a footboard.

For the most part, just about every oak bedroom set commercially available comes out of a few factories down in the North Carolina area. However, oak is also the main component of more than a few very costly bedroom sets, which ranks it with more than a few other fine woods. It is noted for its sturdiness but also its beauty when it is stained and shaped by a skilled craftsman.

The Amish of Ohio and Pennsylvania, though, are renowned across the country for the furniture that they build, and one of their favorite woods is oak. An oak bedroom set that is made by the Amish will be of the highest quality and craftsmanship -- and also a bit pricey in some cases. A typical headboard/footboard combo will run about $1300, though just about anyone would say it was worth it.

For those who desire an even more finely detailed, sturdy and comprehensive bed made by the Amish, they can expect to pay upwards of $3000. Given that the dead will have been made by some of the most skilled craftsman around, there's almost no one who wouldn't say that a bed of that price isn't worth it. Sleeping in such a bed can make one feel like a member of old European royalty, in fact.

Oak furniture is both timeless and beautiful in its presentation and quality of construction. There is almost no end to the kind of furniture that can be made from this classic wood, in fact. It has stood up well throughout the centuries as a prime material for furniture and is sure to stand up just as well in the future.