{"id":390,"date":"2018-05-10T18:07:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2018-07-12T19:41:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T17:41:57","slug":"8-fun-interesting-furniture-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/8-fun-interesting-furniture-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Fun & Interesting Furniture Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Everyone has furniture. Furniture is great \u2013 it provides us with a comfy place to sit in front of the TV, a great night’s sleep, a place to eat dinner & something to relax on. While we love our upholstery, sometimes we do consider it to be boring.
\nWell things are about to change, as we’ve pulled together 8 fun and fascinating\u00a0furniture<\/a>\u00a0facts, to impress you.<\/p>\n

8 Fun & Interesting Furniture Facts<\/h5>\n
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  1. The average life-span of a sofa is 2,958 days (that’s roughly 8 years). The oldest bookcase in the world is located in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University \u2013 which is also one of the oldest libraries in Europe.<\/li>\n
  2. After a house and a car, upholstery is usually the third most expensive item a person will buy during their lifetime.<\/li>\n
  3. Have you ever wondered who invented the\u00a0office chair<\/a>? It was none-other than Charles Darwin in the 1800s, who added wheels to his chair to get around his study quicker.<\/li>\n
  4. Throughout a\u00a0sofa<\/a>‘s life, it will host roughly 782 visitors.<\/li>\n
  5. An average sofa is used as a place to sit while eating a meal 13 Xs a month. That translates into (1,261 meals over the sofa’s lifetime).<\/li>\n
  6. The oldest known\u00a0chairs<\/a>\u00a0were ceremonial furniture from Ancient Egypt 5,000 years ago.<\/li>\n
  7. Chairs didn’t come into common use until the 16th century. Before then people sat on stones or wooden\u00a0benches<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. Why do kings sit on thrones? In early history, chairs or thrones were generally used by people of higher society. People with less calibre sat on stools.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So next time you are relaxing on your\u00a0upholstery or perhaps you’re sitting down for a meal at your\u00a0rustic dining table\u00a0or even ordering some\u00a0bespoke furniture\u00a0pieces, remember there is a lot of fascinating facts and history about that piece of furniture.\u00a0Upholstery manufacturers\u00a0recommend\u00a0having\u00a0upholstered\u00a0<\/a>furniture<\/a>\u00a0cleaned<\/a>\u00a0professionally every 12 months. Call ProCleanersNJ Today 973-343-7627<\/p>\n

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    Everyone has furniture. Furniture is great \u2013 it provides us with a comfy place to sit in front of the TV, a great night’s sleep, a place to eat dinner & something to relax on. While we love our upholstery, sometimes we do consider it to be boring. Well things are about to change, as … Continue reading “8 Fun & Interesting Furniture Facts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[166,168,170,169,164,171,165,163,167],"yst_prominent_words":[145,161,149,151,155,159,162,146,156,160,154,150,147,144,153,157,152,148,158,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.procleanersnj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}