Rustic furnitures are hand-made furnitures. You might have heard about classic Adirondack garden chair, it is a prime example of rustic furniture. Adirondack chairs are low slung chairs for outdoor use, made of wooden slats. They usually dont have cushions.

If we peep in rustic furniture history, the trend of rustic furniture was started around the Adirondack Mountains with industry leaders and members of the elite using summer homes and cabins. From that time on words, most of the house owners were away during the winter season; caretakers of their homes moved out into the woods and collected natural logs and twigs, including pine, which was a sturdy wood. This wood was used very often, especially for functional furniture by caretakers. This rustic furniture is very famous between collection 20/20 design of industrial furniture (known as collection design 20/20 de meubles industriel in french) makers.

For instance, your furniture is made of rustic pine; you must know certain things about it. Like pine is a soft wood. Hence, some pampering is must for keeping the rustic pine furniture looking beautiful and in good shape. Never place the furniture under direct sunlight or near a heating unit because pine usually cracks under heat.
Rustic furniture is almost like other wooden furniture, collects scratches and dents over time. But this should not really happen. If this happen no worries, cure for everything is there, in that condition you just boil some water and pour it directly on the dent or ding. Remove the extra water with a dry soft cloth. This usually flattens the dent to normal. After that for sporting a shine use block wax on the entire surface and your rustic furniture will be new as ever.