The development of folk furniture was very much connected to the evolution of the house and the fireplace in it. The first log-houses were made in the XII. Century. This is the starting point in the evolution of furniture. Some very simple pieces of furniture were known in the XIII. Century, such as the bed and the bench. Table and the cradle were also known. There is proof that chests were widespread in the XIV century. Other pieces of furniture became known later on as status symbols: chair, armchair and corner cupboard which were placed in the "sanctuary-corner" of the room (see Stories about furniture). All of these were made from roughly joined, rough-hewn hard wood. The emergence of painted furniture was influenced by two factors: chimneys that led out the smoke from the house (painted furniture would have been smoked quickly) and the invention of the sawmills, that made the processing of softwoods easier. Cabinetmakers took over and new types of furniture were born.

  Softwood furniture (less resistant in time) was protected with several coats of paint and afterwards decorated with flowers. Paint was made most often from milkpaint, local minerals, as well as other vegetable and animal substances. The painted surface was finished with a kind of varnish made from colophony, bee-wax, linseed oil and other components.