Much like the economy and the nation as a whole, the residential furniture industry has had a series of turmoil-filled years. Terror attacks, war, foreign competition and consumers whose minds and wallets seem focused on the building they live in rather than the furniture they live with have combined to put the wood residential furniture industry in a kind of doldrum. It is not exactly a recession ― overall industry sales are essentially flat, and there are nearly as many positive specific stories as there are negatives. But equally, the return to boom times has not come nearly as quickly as many projected in the early days of the recession two years ago.
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