In clients' houses, I have seen some terrible fading on high quality new cherry pieces that were beside a curtained window--never in direct sunlight.
I could plainly see where the coasters always went and if someone left a book there for too long. And yes, the tops and sides will end up looking different. I move my 4 QS8's around from time to time, but I will never be able to change the M60's or the sub. We had a small ceramic sculpture on the sub. Now that it's not there, you can see that it was.
My feeling at day's end---it's wood, it's real. Real things do that.
I think my clients don't really understand that until after they leave the ER.
