CREATING THE PERSONAL LIBRARY WITH SOLID WOOD AMISH BOOKCASES

The well appointed home without a bookcase, especially a solid wood bookcase handmade by Amish craftsmen, is not truly a welcoming home. While it may seem a bit Shabby Chic to incorporate stacks of books around your home, in reality they are more accessible and better cared for in a strong and handsome hardwood bookcase. While the Internet is an amazing resource, a virtual bookcase so to speak, there is no replacing the smell, feel and imagination triggers of a good book found on a shelf waiting for you on a rainy day. The love of books is infectious and children exposed to them in their daily lives are proven to be more apt to read and do better in school. A home tied together with the love of books and collecting them has a common intellectual thread not easily broken.

While you can buy inexpensive bookcases from mega-stores, these particleboard storage units are doomed to crumble. They develop sway in the shelves and collapse is eminent after a short life. Moisture of any kind cannot be tolerated and the chemicals involved in creating particleboard, a product made of wood shavings held together with a formaldehyde-based resin that outgasses, is not a desirable home furnishing choice. Your indoor air quality is actually affected by placing these items in your home. Not so with a solid wood Amish book case available in hardwoods like red oak, quarter sawn white oak, hickory, maple and cherry.

If you have an empty room, even a dining room that is only used twice a year, convert it into your own personal world of books. The Amish dining room table, long, spacious and sturdy, protected by custom dining table pads, is the most elegant and functional library table in the world. The luxury of a dining room table as a library table is the vast amount of space to spread out papers and books. The spacious Amish table makes it possible to work efficiently alone or in a group. As your family grows more comfortable in your dining room you will be more apt to begin to enjoy it, spending more time and sharing even more meals in your cozy library/ dining room.

Open fronted for easy access or doored with panels of glass for collecting protection, in varying shades of stains and woods, there is always the perfect bookcase for your home. Amish bookcases can actually be designed to match your table or other room’s décor. Is your home a turn of the century Arts and Crafts bungalow? A McCoy series bookcase will bring the Mission style home. The Caledonia series has a sleek modern design with traditional quality that can be handed down to the next generation. Angle in between two Amish bookcases a solidly crafted Amish designer desk and you have a home office for you or your children to work and play.