I just love oak furniture – now that I am older, slightly more affluent and more decidedi n my tastes, I love the feeling of reliablility that comes with oak.  It won’t fall over or snap;  the colour is genuine and it needs very little looking after.  Ok, the man-made materials that the out of town furniture super emporiums sell in the stasck it high, sell it cheap modus operandi are great when you have a space that needs cheap furniture for the family to function.  But after years of this, we suddenly realise that hey, a decent oak table and chairs, to match a very attractive oak side board is now very much what we want.  The suppliers of oak furniture  whatever shade, be it light, medium, stained, rich dark . . . .  are now having a fantastic resurgence after some lean years of being the ‘old fashioned’ ones.  They suffered during the years of scandinavian manmade or rubber wood practicalities throughout the recessonary years of 1990 to 2019.  Now the folk from those days are more affluent and realise they want the quality of oak.