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At Woodchuck’s we strive to educate and inform our customers. That’s why we stay up to date on the latest trends and news in the fine furniture world, and share it all with you here. Find an article below, created by our design and sales professionals, that will guide you to find the perfect piece of furniture.
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Office + Home Office

6 Inspiring Small Office Designs

Working from home is more common than ever, and we understand the appeal. Flexible hours and an anything-goes dress code sounds good to us, too! But along with that flexibility come plenty of everyday distractions. To truly stay productive while you’re working at home, it’s important to set up your own defined office space, away from the rest of the house. Of course, not everyone has a spare bedroom waiting to be filled with spacious office furniture. If finding office space will require some creative thinking, it may help to learn some of the best small office design tricks. Consider the following six spaces as you look for a place to set up your work station.

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Home Decor

How to Design the Perfect Transitional Room

Transitional décor defines that old expression “the best of both worlds”. In transitional rooms, you’ll find both classic and contemporary styles; the furniture is usually dominated by simple lines rather than dated colors and details, and the modern-day accents complement a variety of timeless pieces. Sometimes, this balance takes some effort to achieve. As you design and furnish your own transitional room, keep it simple and remember these basic lessons:

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Home Decor

Small Dining Room Designs

Small dining rooms can be more challenging to design than spacious dining areas. Limited space means less room for furniture and less seating area. However, a small dining room doesn’t have to look sparse or cramped. Below are some very attractive dining room designs that make the most of confined areas and unique features.

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Office + Home Office

Creative Ways To Brighten Your Home Office

How does it feel to walk into your home office? Do you dread your long to-do list, or look forward to settling in and getting right to work? Your décor may play a bigger role than you think in your morale. Whether you work from home full-time or use your office for hobbies and paperwork, it’s important to fuel your productivity with colors and shapes that make you happier.

If your space doubles as a bedroom or living area, it’s especially important to give your work station some character of its own. Consider these five creative ways to brighten up your home office and make your work station feel more inviting and exciting.

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Home Decor

How To Naturalize Your Living Room

Like fashion, interior design is always evolving. New color schemes, furniture types, and decorative themes dominate furniture stores and style magazines each season, and it’s exciting to seek inspiration from the latest looks. However, it’s important to make sure your living room looks timeless enough to weather new trends. At Woodchuck’s Fine Furniture & Decor, our favorite way to update a room is to naturalize it.

Quite simply, a “naturalized” room will incorporate colors, textures, and shapes that are strongly associated with – or taken directly from – outdoor spaces. Though natural décor is definitely on-trend right now, the Great Outdoors will never go out of style. Follow these five simple steps to turn your home into a beautiful, inviting retreat for years to come.

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Home Decor

Creative Ways To Entertain Outside

If you’re not making the most of your backyard, it’s time to give it an upgrade to creating a more inviting space your guests will love. Jacksonville furniture stores are teeming with comfortable patio furniture for your backyard, but what about your outdoor décor?

At Woodchucks, we understand how important it is to create an intimate, inviting space for your guests. While our outdoor furniture options are perfect for customizing a comfy patio, we also recommend some of the following creative additions to truly complete your entertaining area.

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Home Decor

8 Decorating Tips For Small Living Rooms

When space is at a minimum in your living room, everything you do to decorate has to be carefully thought out. Not an inch can be wasted, nor an opportunity to showcase your living room furniture and design style. Here are eight decorating ideas for small living rooms that you can do right now.

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Home Decor

10 Exceptional Living Rooms with Leather Furniture

At Woodchuck’s Fine Furniture & Decor, we know how important it is for your furniture to be functional and beautiful. Leather is one of the most versatile and popular furniture choices because it manages to combine the best of both worlds, offering durability in a design that pleases the senses. However, until recently, it was harder to find a great leather couch that could actually withstand the wear and tear of an everyday living space.

Fortunately, all of that is changing, and our showroom is full of examples of new designs and manufacturing styles of living room furniture. Our leather furniture options include leather sofas, leather recliners, and other living room staples that are perfect with the right décor and furnishings to accompany them.

To help inspire your new leather living room experience, we’ve compiled ten of our favorite examples of leather done right. The pieces in these exceptional living rooms blend right in, make stylish statements, and everything in between, thanks to creative combinations of colors and textures that really affect the overall impact of each piece. We encourage you to give one of these ten mix-and-match arrangements a try in your own Jacksonville home.

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Home Decor

How to Decorate a Mantle with Purpose

If you have a fireplace or decorative mantle in your living room, its look is just as significant as the style of your living room furniture. Instead of leaning on outdated and cliché mantle decorating ideas, borrow a few of our fresh tips to truly transform the focal point of your living room.

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Custom Furniture

10 Ways to Integrate the Color Serenity into Your Home

Cool colors like blue and green often create a sense of tranquility, but no color is more serene than Serenity itself. This year, the blue hue shares the coveted title of Pantone Color of the Year with its perfect pair: rose quartz. Serenity is a gentle but powerful shade of blue, muted enough to match neutral grays but cool enough to provide balance with warmer shades. Borrow some serene suggestions from the following ten rooms to add a touch of Serenity in your own home.

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Custom Furniture

Creative Ways To Organize Your Home Office

Working from home gives you more freedom and flexibility to accomplish your professional goals. However, if your home office is cramped and cluttered, it’s easy to lose control over your progress and productivity. At Woodchuck’s Furniture, we understand how important it is to have a separate, private space for your professional routine. We’ve put together some of our favorite ways to organize a home office space, and we encourage you to implement some of these tips to help make yours more inviting.

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Home Decor

10 Inspiring Rose Quartz Living Room Ideas

Since Rose Quartz is one of Pantone’s colors of the year for 2016, you might like to take advantage of this beautiful trending color in your own home. Here are ten inspiring ways to incorporate Rose Quartz in your living room.

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Furniture Buying Tips

5 Unique Desks of Small Home Offices

You don’t need a big room to set up a great home office. With the right desk, you can be productive, organized, and comfortable in any work space. In fact, modern desk designs incorporate multipurpose features and plenty of storage options into small packages, making it easier to conserve space for practical purposes and spread out when necessary.
To help you complete your home office, we’ve found five of the hottest desk styles for small spaces. This unique, innovative furniture is designed to accommodate all your office essentials without taking up unnecessary wall or floor space.

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Living Room

4 Reasons You Should Invest in Quality Furniture

When it comes to furniture, homeowners typically have two options – buy inexpensive, one-size-fits-all furniture that begins to fall apart quickly or invest in quality, customized pieces that will last a lifetime. Though quality furniture does require a larger investment up front, there are many benefits to investing in quality pieces for your home:

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Dining Room

How to Choose the Right Dining Room Table

Whether you’re furnishing a new home or replacing an outdated or damaged dining room set, your table will be the focal point of your entertaining space. It’s important to find quality furniture and accessories, including overhead lighting and wall art, that will complement the other lines and textures in your dining room.

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