Wooden Furniture in Indian Homes: Living With Humidity, Heat, and the Occasional Termite
A teak almirah bought in Coimbatore behaves differently in a Gurgaon apartment. The same wood, the same joinery, the same finish, and yet within a year the drawers in Delhi stick in July and rattle loose by February. Nobody warned the buyer that furniture has a relationship with the room it sits in, and that relationship changes with the season.…
