Inside & Out.(Home & Garden)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March, 2000

Could they hire my 3-year-old? Here's a new one on us. Century Furniture Industries says sometimes the scuffs, burns, knocks and nicks on distressed furniture just don't measure up. What they mean is that the chest of drawers set up in your hallway doesn't match the antique-looking model you saw on the showroom floor.

"Sometimes the distressed marks and antiquing elements can vary widely from piece to piece, even in the same product line," said Eric Schenk, chief operating officer for Century Furniture. That's why Century Furniture has a robotic process that brings consistency to distressed and antique reproduction furniture. Buyers turn to distressed furniture to get the feeling of antiques along with modern construction and condition and sense of...