Pines are considered to be a softwood, light weight and less expensive. Due to its light weight, pine is quite popular for bedroom furniture, such as wardrobes, beds, as it is much easier to move this...

The term ‘wood’ is used to refer to the trees, specifically it refers to the substance that trees are made out of. Wood is the hard, fibrous structural tissue that is commonly found in the stems and roots of...

Timber can be used to refer to any stage of the wood after the tree has been cut down. This may include the felled tree, the wood processed for construction, wood pulp for paper production, etc. Timber is also...

‘Timber’ and ‘lumber’, for most purposes are synonyms. However, they are may be refereeing to slightly different things, when considering the contexts of the American English and British English. For any and...

Rubberwood is essentially the wood that comes from the rubber tree, the Pará rubber tree to be specific. It is a type of hardwood. Hardwood is the wood that comes from an angiosperm tree. This is a type of...