We're gaining ground slowly on the new forum, adding a few new members each week, but we don't seem to have enough trade experts here AND we don't have enough member participation in posting to really build the interest level where it should be.

Forums live and die by the membership base, and perhaps its hard to find 'enthusiasts' for a furniture forum in the same manner as one would find it for sports cars, tennis players, horse owners and the like.

I'd like to see this forum become a community, rather than simply a consumer question and answer resource but that all depends on the members as a whole and how they wish to interact with one another.

In any case, if anyone has any ideas how to bring in more members and trade experts, I'm all ears. And if you want to see a new forum category, that's not hard to develop either.