Best material for furniture?

[myfs_133600]

I need help finding out the best material for furniture. For example, I read somewhere that wood and glass are ok for dining room tables, and another site that says glass is bad.

Which is best for dining room table?

Which material is best for a home office desk?

Thanks!

[Cecil Lee]

1. Appreciate, if you were to post, please don't post so many duplicates. I have to clean up all the duplicates for you.

2. These are some of the considerations:-

2.1 No one will ever complaint about a pure wooden dining table.

2.2 For a wooden cum glass piece; few would also complain as the structure often holding the furniture is wood, with glass inserts.

2.3 Commonsense approach:-

2.3.1 Why does some say glass NO GOOD? Have you seen a young child holding a cup or plate and start banging on the dining table? They might not crack it, but it does make an irritating sound if he/she is holding plastic ware. If it is china, then it may scratch or even shatter the glass.

2.3.2 Children do run around the home. Hitting their head against a wooden table is not as bad as the thin side of a glass table.

2.4 Make sure that the dining table glass is made of tempered glass that will shatter into smaller pieces. Unfortunately, in some countries even those side coffee table may not be made from tempered glass. All tempered glass will have a marking on the glass to show the brand and words "tempered" on it.

3. Symbolism in Feng Shui:-

3.1. For a pure wooden table, it would not shatter. For a part wood part glass unless we throw someone to the middle of the table, it may shatter. But a pure glass table is exposed on all sides...

3.2 It is like the example of the Chinese altar. It is considered bad to use a pure glass top to place Chinese gods or figurines or ancestor tablet. If it does shatter e.g. violet earth movement or vibration or accidentally dropping something on it; it will shatter and bring down the entire altar! This signify bad luck.

[myfs_133600]

Thank you and sorry for the multiple post.

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