Archive for the ‘Furniture Tips’ Category
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Why worry about travel safety and soaring transportation prices this year when you can plan for a vacation to paradise in your own backyard? For less money than you would spend on a cruise for two you can convert your patio into a private resort setting using handcrafted custom patio furniture from the Amish. These [...]
Tags: Amish, backyard, cedar, Furniture, Outdoor Furniture, picnic, retreat, solid wood, swing, tripod frame swing
Posted in Adirondack, Amish Furniture Styles, Decorating Ideas, Design Style, Furniture Uses, Hickory Furniture, Home Life, Patio & Outdoor Life, Rustic Furniture | 4 Comments »
Friday, March 20th, 2009
As independent a creature as the domestic housecat, when a cat is ready to socialize with humans they love to play, cuddle and purr for no reason other than being near you. That alone is reason to own them…or, let them own you. Unfortunately, the thing they love even more than snuggling with you is [...]
Tags: Amish Furniture Styles, Cat Scratching, cats, DECLAW, furniture care, housecat, SCRATCH-PROOFING
Posted in DIY Projects, Furniture Tips, Home Life, Pets and Furniture, Rugs & Carpets, Sofas, Upholstered Furniture | No Comments »
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Packing up your home and moving is never easy, especially if you are doing it on your own. After tossing away things you have accumulated and probably never used, gathering up various sizes of boxes at every grocer and liquor store in town for packing, boxing up everything you can live without a few days [...]
Tags: Amish Furniture Styles, heirloom furniture, moving, moving tips, SLIDE, Sliders
Posted in DIY Projects, Furniture Tips, Home Life, Storage | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
A preferred showcase chosen by many collector’s of fine porcelains like Royal Doulton is the hardwood bookcases, curios, china cabinets and shelves designed and built by the Amish. Like Amish heirloom pieces the precious and highly valued and regarded collectibles and décor items designed and crafted by the Royal Doulton Company are world-renowned and highly [...]
Tags: Amish hardwood, Bookcases, china cabinet, corner cabinets, curios, Henry Doulton, hutches, John Doulton, John Watts, Royal Doulton
Posted in Accessories, Bookcases, Decorating Ideas, Furniture Uses, Home Life, Organization, Porcelain & China, Storage | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 16th, 2009
The unusual events in the world economy have many people looking for new ways to earn money and one idea is to convert one or more rooms of your home into a Bed and Breakfast. American homes that welcomed weary travelers date back to the earliest days of Colonial America. The country was young so [...]
Tags: Amish Hardwood Furniture, b&b, bed and breakfast, boarding house, Depression, early american boarding houses, economy, lodging options, travel
Posted in Accessories, Amish Furniture Styles, Commercial Ideas, DIY Projects, Furniture Tips, Furniture Uses, News | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Now that you have accessed your home and lifestyle, documented your usable possessions and determined your desired future environment it is time to consider where to start investing from your “wants list”. Start with the fundamentals, such as where you will sleep, sit, eat and even store your possessions.
DETERMINE A BUDGET: It is far too [...]
Tags: Amish Furniture Styles, BUDGET FURNITURE, BUDGET YOURSELF, Buying Furniture, furniture construction, home environment, intelligent design
Posted in Decorating Ideas, Design Style, Furniture Tips, Home Life, Understanding Hardwood and Furniture Construction | No Comments »
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Food, water, clothing and a place to give you shelter is the necessities to live a decent life. While it is true that you can make do with the most minimum of furnishings in order to create the shelter that protects you we are fortunate enough to be able to create a warm and welcoming [...]
Tags: Amish Furniture Styles, furniture investment, game center, home environment, intelligent design, personal atmosphere
Posted in Accessories, Adirondack, Arts and Crafts, Baby Furniture, Bedrooms, Cherry Furniture, Clocks, Craftsman, DIY Projects, Decorating Ideas, Design Style, Dining Room Furniture, Furniture Tips, Hickory Furniture, Home Life, Home Office Design, Lamps & Lighting, Linens, Lodge, Log Cabin Homes, Maple Furniture, Mirrors, Mission, Modern & Contemporary, Oak Furniture, Organization, Rustic Furniture, Shaker, Sofas, Upholstered Furniture | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 19th, 2009
Whether you are limited on space in an apartment or house, just trying to give a room a streamlined and well organized look, furnishing a commercial living space like a hotel or setting your parents up in a scaled down residence, a pier bed wall unit is the most efficient piece of bedroom furniture in [...]
Posted in Amish Furniture Styles, Arts and Crafts, Bedrooms, Craftsman, Decorating Ideas, Design Style, Furniture Uses, Home Life, Lamps & Lighting, Mirrors, Mission, Oak Furniture, Organic, Organization | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
While homeschool families utilize the whole world from home to yard to neighborhood and beyond, as their classroom, at some point even the freest thinking parent-teacher must dedicate a room or sections of a room to the home school. Logically, home schooling families quite often use the dining room table as command central. Even “out [...]
Tags: Amish Furniture Styles, Dining Room, Dining Room Table, Dining Room Tables, home schooling families, homeschool families, homeschoolers, solid wood
Posted in Bookcases, Chairs, DIY Projects, Decorating Ideas, Dining Room Furniture, Furniture Uses, Home Life, Organization, Storage | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
New Year’s Eve parties bring together the old and the new to be celebrated and memorialized by one and all. The ritual of good food, great memories and celebratory toasts all mark the end of the old year and the beginning of a new and promise filled year. Unfortunately, some of those toasts are memorable [...]
Tags: Amish Furniture Styles, Amish hardwood, ARESISTOVAR, arm chairs, chairs and ottomans, Fabric, grape juices, Ottoman, red wine, resistovar, Sofas, table pads, Upholstered Furniture, Upholstery, Wine, wine drinkers, wine stains
Posted in Chairs, Furniture Tips, Home Life, Sofas, Upholstered Furniture, Wine | 1 Comment »