◠Hardware accessories
Closely related to furniture stability and longevity
Hinges, wheels, slide rails, connecting pieces, shelf supports, handles, chair legs and other terms that we seem to be familiar with are actually called hardware accessories and are indispensable and important members in the furniture assembly process.
"Plate, glue, and finish paint are the keys to determine the quality of furniture products. Others are not important." For this kind of thinking of most consumers, Bai Jianfeng, chairman of Elvis Furniture, held a negative opinion to produce cats that started with hardware accessories. Wang Furniture has its own views on the role of hardware accessories in furniture. Bai Jianfeng bluntly said that furniture stability and service life are actually the most closely related to hardware accessories, but this is often ignored by consumers. A set of high-quality hardware can not only upgrade the practicality of furniture, but also extend the life of the furniture. However, what kind of standards the hardware used to produce furniture needs to meet is an issue that needs everyone's attention. Although the country has a set of testing standards for the hardware manufacturing industry, the standards for furniture hardware accessories are relatively backward. This is undoubtedly one of the reasons that some low-quality hardware accessories are mixed into furniture products.
â— Hardware accessories lead to the same category of furniture
Big price difference
In addition, hardware is closely related to the price of furniture that consumers are most concerned about. In fact, each piece of furniture uses a lot of hardware, and the cost of these pieces of hardware is closely related to the terminal selling price of the furniture. Shao Xianman, general manager of Oriental Parkson Furniture, told the author that taking a hinge as an example, although it is also used to connect doors and windows, the cost of choosing a domestic low-end hinge is only about 0.8 yuan, while the cost of choosing imported high-quality hinges is 7 yuan-20 yuan Wait, the price difference is self-evident. If you have ever wondered why the price of two pieces of furniture with similar materials, styles, colors and sizes can be more than doubled, it may be the hardware accessories that are doing the blame.
â— There is no separate warranty for hardware accessories
Special product warranty is difficult
Since the role of hardware accessories in furniture is so important, are there any special guarantees for merchants in terms of after-sales protection? In response to this, when I visited some of the furniture brand stores in the actual home Lize store and the Dazhongsi Lanjing Lijia store last weekend, I found that most domestic furniture manufacturers have not made a separate warranty commitment for hardware accessories. The furniture products are guaranteed for 3 or 5 years together. Among them, the Yifeng furniture brand shopping guide said that the hardware accessories of their panel furniture are purchased centrally, and there are fixed cooperative manufacturers, and the quality can be assured. However, the conventional hardware accessories cannot yet achieve a separate warranty. If consumers have special requirements, they can be discussed. The relevant person in charge of Oriental Parkson Furniture stated that if there is a problem with hardware accessories within the warranty period of the furniture, it is guaranteed to be repaired or replaced free of charge, but once the warranty period expires, consumers need to pay door-to-door fees and hardware cost fees for repairing or replacing hardware .
In fact, the cost of replacing hardware accessories is not a big problem. Eastern Parkson Shao Xianman pointed out that some special or old key accessories are difficult to match with the ideal accessories due to the fast product update speed and the elimination of molds. As a result, furniture that does not have other quality problems may be "eliminated" and suffer heavy losses. Therefore, if the furniture you buy has high-tech or relatively special hardware accessories, you must consult the purchaser to consult the after-sales service problem before proceeding.
â— Warning
Inferior hardware accessories
Will cause danger of use
If a child's bed, cabinet or seat suddenly breaks or some parts fall off, it is definitely a dangerous thing, and this risk is difficult to be separated from the quality of children's furniture hardware accessories. When choosing furniture for children, in addition to environmental protection, product stability and accessory safety factors cannot be ignored. In fact, it is not only the responsibility of parents but also the responsibility of all children's furniture brands to provide high stability and safe enough furniture for children who like jumping and climbing.
Children's furniture and accessories will look forward to more stringent standards
It is understood that there is currently no stricter hardware accessories standards for children's furniture in China, and whether the quality of the hardware purchased from children's furniture products is excellent is also determined by the manufacturer by looking at the test report and combining experience. Sun Shuwei, the deputy general manager of A Home Furnishing, which represented many domestic and foreign young children's furniture brands such as Xingsuo, Songbao Kingdom, Happy Post and Ekas, bluntly said that there is a lot of room for improvement in the children's furniture market, and look forward to the more strict The standard of hardware accessories is one of them.
â— Discovery
"High-tech, user-friendly" hardware accessories are too professional to repair and replace
Automatic, electric, and multi-functional, these seemingly versatile and user-friendly furniture, in recent years, have gradually tended to occupy the center of consumption of Chinese people.
In this regard, some people in the furniture industry have expressed their views that high technology is indeed the general trend, but the more functions, the higher the degree of automation, which means that the more complicated hardware accessories used in these furniture products, the higher the high-tech components. If the quality of the product is the best, once an important hardware accessory is damaged, it will not only cause the product to "fail", but will also cause a problem that is difficult to find or the cost of replacement.
Therefore, industry insiders recommend that consumers buy high-tech or highly automated furniture products, it is best to try and use, and indicate in the contract with the merchant to discuss the relevant hardware accessories warranty replacement time limit to avoid hindsight.
2012 European and American furniture is more pleasing to Chinese consumers
--Chen Tao, Vice President of Yitong Group
Thick, rugged and complicatedly carved European and American furniture will be 'outdated' in China in 2012. The change in style, size, color, pattern, and engraving craftsmanship to "Chinese taste", on the one hand, can take care of Chinese people's living habits, on the other hand, it is a little more intimate. Chen Tao, vice president of Yitong Group, told the author that European and American furniture began to be popular in China a few years ago. In order to prove their taste and strength, many ignorant consumers began to pursue 100% European and American furniture. However, as of this year, consumers have combined with actual living conditions, rationally viewed the value of trendy furniture and valued their own preferences, which undoubtedly made brands have to put forward the plan for the transformation of European and American furniture products. In the future, European and American furniture designed for the Chinese will no longer pursue 100% authenticity. They will converge on the exaggeration and size of the carvings. At the same time, mix and match with various elements and styles will also become the focus of research and development of European and American furniture products.
In terms of prices that consumers are most concerned about, Chen Tao also expressed the hope that more and more rational prices will make European and American furniture more friendly to the people and accepted by more people. In the past, the practice of artificially creating an economic threshold for American home life in terms of price will rarely appear. Of course, the audience of European and American furniture after improvement and adjustment can be from 30 to 60 years old, and can accompany consumers through several important life stages. From the perspective of applicable life, it is higher than panel furniture.
--Kirin, general manager of Ronglin Shijia Furniture
Buy original furniture first understand some home culture
The high price and impracticality have often become consumers' evaluation of domestic original furniture products in the past two years. However, this 'definition' will begin to reverse in 2012 with the joint efforts of merchants, designers and consumers. In the future when designing and buying and selling original furniture, what kind of laws should be followed? In this regard, Kirin, the general manager of Ronglin Shijia Furniture, who has always insisted on making original products, believes that designers and merchants who master the design and production links are eager to be recognized and improve their self-cultivation. This is undoubtedly creating original content. The key to the work. For consumers, if you want to buy original furniture, don't focus on the shape and price, let's calm down and take a look at the cultural background of the product. This will become an element that helps you buy an ideal original furniture.
From not being valued, to being controversial, to vigorous development, although the journey of Chinese original furniture is full of thorns, it shows a promising future. Kirin said that specifically, the combination of original ideas, metaphysical manifestations, rationalization of prices and practical proportions will become the focus of the development of such furniture products in 2012. Ronglin Shijia will make some adjustments this year, focusing on the natural and comfortable betel nut series, and the Kyocera series, which is closely related to the collection and culture, will be refined. In addition, in June and July of this year, Ronglin Shijia will also have a new series called 'Indus'. This brand still continues the original route, but it is closer to mainstream consumption and more Westernized.
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