Some manufacturers even address the great outdoors with items like child-sized benches and Adirondack chairs. Convertibility, say, of a crib to a toddler's bed or a table that converts into a chest, are also available from some specialist manufacturers, and many have some features of these types of design on their books. Manufacturers expanding into youth lines Materials include colourful laminates, wood grains and some metals, such as tubular steel. Styles go from the most traditional to contemporary to modern. Furthermore, many manufacturers offer adaptability.
Parents can buy children's furniture as separates or as suites.
Licensing is a factor for consideration, although less so in the furniture itself as in other product categories like accessories and soft goods, which might provide opportunities for co-ordination. Safety issues probably have a higher profile in youth products than in those for adults. In addition to meeting published safety standards, manufacturers pay extra attention in youth furniture to details such as rounded corners, non-cascading drawers with automatic stops, steel bolts in bunk beds and bolted bed rails. Demographic indicators strongly support continued growth in the children's furniture line over the next few decades at least, says Glenn Prillaman, marketing manager for Young America, a Stanley Furniture line. A few years ago, studies were predicting the peak would come about in 2004.