Austin’s Couch Potatoes does not sacrifice quality for affordability. Here are some of the materials and machines we use to guarantee you are getting a piece of furniture that will hold up throughout the years:

• Hardwood as the name implies is wood all the way through with nothing added to it. A solid piece of material that is often sought after within the case goods and dining furniture categories (such as Amish furniture) or higher end furniture.
• Plywood is thin layers of wood veneers glued together in a rotating grain to promote strength and flexibility. Plywood because it is multilayered doesn't suffer from the same long-term issues that hardwood does with the expansion or shrinkage of the wood due to moisture of temperature changes. We pretty much use exclusively plywood and it makes our furniture better than most competitors as they will often cut cost on materials.

• Particle board is an engineered wood that is sawdust and small wood chips added with glue or resin and then pressed together. Generally, particle board has low strength, low durability, and will expand when exposed to moisture. When you want to build better furniture, you upgrade to plywood and when you want to save cost you downgrade to particle board.


• CNC isn't a wood but a machine we use to cut the plywood, that comes in wood sheets from the lumberyard. The CNC machine is so precise with the cuts that a human hair is less than the margin of error. This allows us to use jointed wood techniques instead of nails in many places making the frames more structurally stable. We aren't using glue to keep the frame together either.