Timeless, natural, beautiful and loved describes the assets of today's natural wooden toys.
To a certain extentyou can say the same about wooden furniture, especially if it is antique.
That isn't saying that some of today's furniture doesn't qualify, there are replica designs taken from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for recreating furniture.
But what may be of surprise in today's furniture stores is the ever increasing additions of the natural wooden toys on their displays, not just for decorative use but also for resale.
You can find wooden rocking toys and a selection of childrens wooden toys standing alongside tables and chairs in these stores.
Press releases in newspapers also highlight these stores, why? Because it's unusual to see the two retailing hand in hand.
It goes to show that natural wooden toys are becoming very popular and are helping furniture stores to generate more customers.
Websites are also promoting natural wooden toys because they are becoming the toys to have and they are more child friendly and environmentally friendly than ever before.
The webstore is up and coming just like the childrens wooden toys.
It's so easy to view the toy then just click and order securely online.
There are no worries of how to get the wooden toy home and it will be delivered to the customers doorstep within days.
With the high street stores and websites growth in retailing natural wooden toys would it be surprising if nearly every household was to have a wooden toy of some kind?