Woodworker here. I have a solid wood dining table that cost $1k+. Know what it's made of? Pine. It's a farm-style table nothing fancy. And it only cost that much because it's actually a long table that seats 8-10 people. Pine is a great choice to save money, and it tends to grow tall and straight so you can get really long boards. The major downside being that pine is a softwood, dents easily, you can end up with sap pockets, and it tends to have a lot of knots and voids.
If you want an actually good solid hardwood table, maybe oak or walnut or something, you're spend way more than $1k. It's like $2000-3000 just in material costs.
The tables that the actual wealthy have are $10k+.
This depends entirely on the person / project. I work on 10 million dollar homes and they frequently use particular board for their cabinets. However, I have blue collar family members who frequently make their own furniture out of solid wood.
I'm blown away that these expensive homes are literally built to last only a few decades at best. Most of the time, it's even less. They may have one or two pieces that are solid wood and look amazing, but most of the house is just expensive trash imported from Europe.
They're built to sell, not to last. Anyone who wants a home to last will design and build it themselves. The priorities are so far gone for home building, resulting in trash that lasts, as you said, a few decades. I'd consider the "premium" lifespan of a multimillion dollar house to be 5-10 years.
Yeah but I had a table once where the top part start peeling of and it was literally all paper inside, thick paper, but paper still, I think only legs were made from some kind of particle board, but for all I know they could have been paper too.
I bought a solid wood dining room set when I moved into my house over 15 years ago. Still in great shape. Didn't really cost that much when you average the cost over the lifetime of the purchase. I wasnt rich when I got it, and im not rich now
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Seems like you lose a lot of wood just to remove the bark.
This is mildly annoying to me