Over the years we have sold many expandable tables of every shape and size.  We have received photos from customers’ parties and gatherings with 20 people gathered around one long table and it got us thinking.  When hosting a party with this many guests, there is usually (and thankfully) lots of food and beverages to [...]

Don’t the holidays seem to come more quickly every year?  It seems like even before the leaves turn color the stores start to march out their Christmas decorations, the kids are making their wish lists and Grandma is plotting the return of her infamous fruitcake.
When you strip away all of the marketing and commercialism of [...]

In keeping with the green and simple trend for the coming decade, decorators are keeping the sturdy heirloom pieces and and adding a little flair. Call it “traditional with a twist”.
Not all of these heirloom pieces are actually older. Many are sturdy, real wood pieces of furniture that will hold up for the next several [...]

The furniture trends for this year have arrived.  They tend to basic variations of 2009 trends. For example, the trend in family sofas for 2009 was brightly colored pillows and throw with neutral sofa. This year, the couches are brightly colored with neutral pillows and throws.
Trying to keep up with yearly trend changes can get [...]

 
Can furniture be a wise investment? Even in a slow economy? According to the Kovels website data gatherers number three of the Top Twenty most sought after searches in July 2009 was indeed furniture. The Kovels are considered the leading expert in collectibles and antiques and not only publish the most sought after price guides [...]

 The pairing up of a Slow Food event and your Amish custom dining room is a perfect marriage. Slow Food vs. Fast Food is more than a passing idea; for some it is truly a way of life and a way of eating. The Slow Food movement began by Carlo Petrini in Italy has went [...]

The furniture term Depression era has come to mean a piece dating from the ‘20s, ‘30s or early 1940s. The stock market crash that occurred on that black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, soon became better known as the Great Depression. The Depression was a rapidly spreading worldwide economic downturn that was not easily recovered from [...]

 
Hardwood as a natural resource that has helped shaped not just communities but the evolution of societies in to countries such as the United States. Natural resources have always been a major factor in determining how well an environment can sustain people but wood has an influence that runs deeper than everything but food and [...]

                                                                          Perhaps it was the birth of a new nation that spurred great interest in both furniture and architecture during what became known as the Federal Era. Federal was an American period that existed from the end of the Revolution (1780) to post-Revolutionary War (1830). It was the end of the Colonial Period in [...]

 
 
There may not be a better known or more duplicated wooden chair in the world than the Windsor. The Windsor is well recognized for its bentwood back frame and its pegged legs going directly in to its wooden seat. The Windsor is differentiated from other styles of chairs because of this styling that normally are [...]